[Kevinkacharya]

Doomed if greed exceed. Take Samsung and Chinese co. Take all our research, blue print and technical wealth and put only there name on it. How sad ! Where were they before iPad,iPhone and iPad ? And now where they are. Apple created there dooms day, just like titanic, unsinkable, we can go through iceberg ( LG, SAMSUNG Etc.) than go for it. Apple is also unsinkable and captain Tim cook please learn from captain Edward jones. Guard the secret.

[Pep75]

MS is not taking risk? Have you been under a rock for a while? Seen W8 lately? OSX hasn't changed for years now...

[k88dad]

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You mean to say Apple isn't "beleaguered" any more?! I just hope success doesn't go to their head and they don't get too cocky. The business graveyard is littered with companies that seemed immortal in their time. Apple is still a youngster compared to the likes of GE, the only original Dow component still with us.

The lesson of GE is that it is possible for a corporations's lifetime to be indefinite.

[k88dad]

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Android challenges the iPhone in every category http://news.cnet.com...every-category/ Great article for all.

Your cited article spends more time bashing the iPhone than it does praising Android. Let's just say that it lacks confidence. The article says that Apple is being "killed" by specs. I can't imagine buying any piece of tech based solely upon specs. You say your screen is bigger. I say that mine is big enough and that bigger would actually be a negative. I have a retort for most of the "advantages" of any Android phone. I won't bore you.

This article boils down to: Consumers and developers will soon wake up and fall in love with Android. Bye bye, Apple.

Laughable.

[k88dad]

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What does Samsung offer that one can't get from other companies? If Samsung went away, couldn't one just buy an HTC OneX or another premium Android phone instead instead? No- you could not, and such a statement tells me that you aren't aware of the full capabilities of a device like the Note 2. You can't say that about Apple products. Having just ordered a full families worth of Note 2's to replace iphone 4s'. And doing much the same with Nexus 7 & 10's over ipad's, I can unequivocally say- yes, you can.

Why would anyone want a tablet with a bunch of blown-up phone apps?

[bc0001]

Timely article. I think they are already showing vulnerability. You mention the maps debacle. More recent news shared cutting the order for displays indicated disappointing iPhone 5 orders. And why not... I still can't see enough value between the 4S and the 5 to warrant switching over all my power plugs to the new port. The latest redo of the iTunes interface is horrible. Not intuitive at all... After being an Apple devotee going back to when the stock sold for $12 - I'm disillusioned. I'm done with the constant updates that seem to be worse instead of better.
Here's the difference between Cook and Jobs - and what makes Apple vulnerable. Jobs understood it was ALL about the end user experience -whether it was your experience in the retail environment - your experience with the support team - whether it was easy or difficult to understand the interface on the DVD drive - or the apps on the iPhone. It was the experience. And they didn't cut prices to make sales. They kept up the quality of the experience. Cook doesn't get that. So they retail experience has slipped, support is watered down, user interface are more getting some software developers jollies than what the end user moves through - I think they are very vulnerable.
It ISN'T just the hardware - it's your ENTIRE experience with Apple that matters.
Good = up. Bad = down.

[DocNo]

Pep75, on 15 January 2013 - 06:15 AM, said:

MS is not taking risk? Have you been under a rock for a while? Seen W8 lately?

Yup. And so have MS's customers - they aren't buying!

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OSX hasn't changed for years now...

Only to those who don't use it. It's changed plenty over the years - just not wholesale changes every seven to ten years like MS with windows, but a steady stream of incremental changes over time.

All I can say about Windows 8 is it's really nice once you load classicshell.sourceforge.net on it.

[durf786]

Is Apple doomed? I'm not sure what that means, but the company has lost nearly 40% of its value since mid-September and is clearly in serious decline. What's been going on?

First there was a great deal of anticipation about the iPhone 5 and we got... the iPhone 4Gs. I had a 3Gs and got over my disappointment, deciding to wait until the 5 was finally released. When it was released... blah. Since the iPhone 5 was entirely uninspiring, I switched to a Samsung Galaxy S3 and was delighted. It is, IMO, better than the iPhone in almost every way. In San Francisco the day before Christmas I watched hordes of people with their little Apple box phones and had to laugh... what were they thinking?

The new iMac came out and I wanted to buy one for my wife until I realized that the only cool thing about it is how thin it is, and who cares? It's worth giving up an optical drive for *that*? On a desktop? I decided to buy her the older 27" iMac, but Apple took them off the market when they announced the new model, then delivered over a month late. The new iMac is nice, but I prefer my older model.

What else? A smaller iPad... yawn.

And Apple is still Apple, ruling their world with an iron hand. Configuration and compatibility? Forget about it. It's Apple's way or nothing. And how about Apple removing the popular 500px app from the App Store because it could possibly used to download nude images? How does everyone feel about that kind of control?

Yeah, Apple has plenty of cash. So does Microsoft, and who cares about them anymore? I don't know if Apple is doomed, but I do know they are in decline and not customer-friendly. They need to do something major to turn it around, and with Jobs gone I don't see that happening.