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[ingus]

Burns is totally wrong, and he missed an opportunity. The Surface Pro should in no way be compared to the Air. A product's positioning in a product line is not by itself sufficient to make that comparison.

I also think you got it right when you wondered if he wasn't mistakenly comparing it to an iPad. That's where his position begins to make some sort of sense. The hypothetical Apple device to which the Surface Pro should be compared is the "iPad Pro". The hypothetical iPad running full OSX. Which just goes to show, it's priced too high. If it were priced at $600, the landscape changes and M$ would have quite a capable product leading a category... the "Pro Tablet". But they missed that boat.

One thing though... Can we call a digitizing pen what it is, and not just a "stylus". It's much more than that.

[bettercitizens]

None of this matters, oh wise Macalope. Apple, Inc. will keep doing what they do, and we might be surprised at their future products.

Speaking of future products, I personally want to see what the new Mac Pro that Tim Cook said was coming later this year offers. I hope it is "insanely great"!

[bettercitizens]

"Apple fanboi religion reality distortion field Kool-Aid HyperCard OpenDoc …"

Ah HyperCard, ah OpenDoc, I do not remember a software product called "Kool-Aid", however. Must have run pre System 6, cause that was the OS on the first Mac I bought. ;-)

[palane]

Kool-Aid was a desk accessory that shipped with the Mac 512KE.

BB

[Harvey]

Lately, some bloggers have been saying that Samsung is more "innovative" than Apple.

Well, here's the fix for Apple to be as innovative as Samsung. All Apple needs to do is to start copying itself. ;-)

[johndrake]

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Kool-Aid was a desk accessory that shipped with the Mac 512KE. BB

Hmm, I thought it was part of the tools in the Dev Kit?.

[michaelant]

"That’s the business the Macalope got into. No point complaining about it when the dumb hits the fan."

But I trust, dear Macalope, that you will continue complaining about it, in inimitable style.

[McJohn]

I have the feeling all this talkin' Apple down is yet another instance of the clueless and desperate Daisey-chaining to make a buck or two before their incompetence is unmasked. Jeff Macke is only one of the horde. Fortunately, they seem far less competent than Genghis Khan's troops. Still annoying, though.

[Kennethfcooper]

Macalope, Is anyone making the argument that Disney's destiny is in the dustbin, because Steve is no longer on the board? If not, I wonder why not. A more compelling argument for this could probably be made.
The biggest risk to Tim Cook would that he starts listening to these guys.

[glj]

Regarding new products - are we only talking about hardware?

Apple released iBooks Author in 2012. If teachers and professional authors can easily write textbooks using iBooks Author, that might change the books that are used in schools.

[josu]

You know Macalope the P/E of Amazon is irrelevant, is the new metric "mindshare" that counts, P/E valuations are so...2003. Wellll, ok, eyeballs metric is the 1999 flavour, and it takes the market diving and Henry Blodgett bonuses spent in paying fines to the SEC. But now they have find the real blend, Mindshare.

Disclaimer: Amazon.con shareholder since 1999, still believing in Bezos magic, is a Wall St, insider anyway, and you can bet that at the moment Wall St. Want to see results he would deliver.

[josu]

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Macalope, Is anyone making the argument that Disney's destiny is in the dustbin, because Steve is no longer on the board? If not, I wonder why not. A more compelling argument for this could probably be made. The biggest risk to Tim Cook would that he starts listening to these guys.

Well maybe i'm wrong but all I read here in Spain is that Tim must do exsaclty what Disney executives did, think what Steve have done. You know, just what Steve warned him to avoid.

Anyway, can anybody tell me what was Disney, when get bankrupt, you know?... Oh wait it's still alive and kicking, and one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world, not a bad end for what supposedly is the most unfortunate corporation in America, and remembered for the sad fate his founder death give to it.

[AdamC]

It looks like every tech company is making a billion here and a billion there but what happen to Apple they can't even make $5B a quarter...../s