Comments on: Red flags and roadblocks for Apple investors

By: Jim, Rotterdam, Holland

Jim, Rotterdam, Holland — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:01:25 +0000

Got to say, your update to the article is done well.

Too bad you didn't and couldn't do it to begin with. You only have one chance to make a first impression; no do-overs here.

By: Nodack Phoenix AZ

Nodack Phoenix AZ — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:47:34 +0000

This holiday season boils down to one thing… The iPhone. IPod sales are a sure thing. Computer sales have increased and have tons of room for growth, but that's not what I am most concerned with as an investor at this point.

The iPhone is the new flag ship product from Apple. I have never seem so much hype for a product before and on the reverse I have never seen a product attacked by so many people before. I get asked all of the time about my iPhone. "Is that a new iPhone? I heard they have had a lot of problems with those, is that true?" That shows me that the negative spin has had an effect on people that don't actually own an iPhone. We already know that the vast majority of people that own an iPhone think it the best thing since sliced bread.

The bottom line will be the bottom line when the next quarter results come out after the Holiday sales season. Will the negative spinning media such as this site have an effect on iPhone sales or not?

By: Eric, Springfield MO

Eric, Springfield MO — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:50:10 +0000

It is quite to me that objective of this article is am attempt to change sentiment on AAPL from bullish to bearish.

It goes without saying (or should) that no stock is going to hold up in a bearish market. If the economy heads south then most products and services will suffer as a result.

One only has to do a little "due diligence" on Apple to see the truth. I consider the initial comments in the article hyperbole, an attempt to scare investors.

By: John A. Bailo, Kent, WA

John A. Bailo, Kent, WA — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:38:38 +0000

AAPL is speculation piled on speculation. The only thing that is more a house of cards is the IPCC report on global warming.

By: Tao jones huntington NY

Tao jones huntington NY — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:48:26 +0000

as a mac user and investor since 1995 i can say this stock has been very very good to me! when my first mac a performa 6200 did not speak to me when i gave it voice commands one letter to apple and they upgraded me to a 6400 at no charge. Over the years i have had little problems and apple has gotten better and better at handling them (i no longer need to write a letter to get stuff done). There is a reason users love their macs! All of mine still work (all 6 of them). As for the Poster who thinks my oil bill will stop me from buying a mac all i can say is my mac makes me about 120 thousand dollars a year and only part of that comes from my day job where i open files the pc's in the office can't "see" on a daily basis and generally save the boss's cookies. The mac community is smart and value conscious. We depend on our computers too much to trust our creative lives to a box that used the cheapest junk it can throw together to undersell the guy next door. Yes steve jobs is essential to the company because he understands what creative people do all day long and knows how to set up a system that knows what we probably want to do and provides 4 or five ways for us to do that first. My razor phone for instance thinks when i flip it on the first thing i want is the ability to buy a ringtone not my address book. that center "go buy stuff" button makes me do 2 annoying clicks to get my address list open. the entire pc experience is like being stranded in a bus station. germs viruses panhandlers con men half-ware, upgrades to nowhere and subscription renewals galore. none of which i deal with on my mac. Active "c" code or not i get more work done on my mac than the rest of the office. pc people are getting a taste of the mac experience with their pods and their phones and trying the mac out and yes it runs windows if you want to. my rules for investing in a company start with two things #1 did they get any money out of my personal pocket and #2 is there buzz about their product. #3 is the stuff they make a part of my life that i could not do with out. Apple wins on all 3 criteria. the sour grapes and spurious arguments of pc users and pundits are as tired today as they ever were. there are no mac viruses because its too hard to write one and if you subtract all the pcs that sit on desks entering insurance accident data and making change at Macdonald's you will find that he mac has a much bigger and important slice of the real user "personal" computer base than gross numbers would indicate. you don't need a mac to open up your cash register Jobs is not interested in that market he is selling filet mignon he has no need to jump in line with the hot dog vendors, as far as partner loyalty goes comp us and p.c. Richard's and even sears were partners that screwed mac sales up. incentives caused floor salesmen to steer customers away from the macs they were left with out balls in the mice or not even booted up in a dismal corner to help these self serving sales people get their 20 dollar beige box bonuses, the answer was the apple stores which has been a boon to the company's visibility. They are always packed while other mall stores are ghost towns.motorola promised faster g5 chips and could not deliver so apple went to intel they were as loyal to motorola as they could be but motorola felt its chip line was good enough to run cars and household gadgets and did not put in as much r&d as they needed to to keep us happy. apple is going to a place in a few years where you will be sitting in your living room answering the phone on your tv and having a 2 way picture conversation with your grandmother all wirelessly integrated handshaked and networked out of the box and there are a lot of grandmas in china i'm buying more apple stock tomorrow. investors consider this . if i can afford only one present for my kid this year it will probably be an apple product.if things get bad cash will be king and using it wisely in tough times will make apple even more money.

By: Baskaran Kaasimani, Singapore

Baskaran Kaasimani, Singapore — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:12:21 +0000

Microsoft has taken the PC industry by un-ethical means. It kills the competition by all means. Either it bought over the technology it gave a run for the competitors. Apple is the only company that could stand Microsoft's monopoly.

Definitely Apple will have a good time as it has all the technology that Microsoft has been focusing on and lost ground. Further Microsoft has been hitting the wall after the news that Bill Gates will be leaving the company from its day to day operations. Vista is a technical failure even though Microsoft is trying to cover it.

Apple is doing well in the new frontiers – Apple is starting to get accepted as a 'business' friendly computer.

By: Dan, Boston, MA

Dan, Boston, MA — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:10:51 +0000

Let's see AAPL crack double digits in PC market share before conceding "40%" to them. And Ashley is a typical Apple fan-girl. Blathering on about "new paradigms" and the "buying habits of millenials". There are no new paradigms in investing dear. That's the same crap that previous generation was pushing during the tech bubble in 2000. And last I checked, the millenials are far behind the boomers and Gen-X in terms of the wealth they control. The poster who pointed out that AAPL is a consumer discretionary company is dead right. As soon as the economy slows and discretionary spending declines, so will AAPL's growth tracjectory and the stock will plummet. AAPL is priced for perfection – the lemmings will flee en masse with the first quarterly earnings miss.

By: E F Benson, Elmhurst, IL

E F Benson, Elmhurst, IL — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:07:09 +0000

How short AAPL is Fortune and TWX? Let the truth surface. Remember journalism covered with self interest is false untruthful thinking. Here, this article, smacks of I/m jealous, I don't have, they do, I want" Well sometimes, one needs to hear too bad. Take your toys and go home. AAPL is too well positioned, has a strong pipeline, and genually holds well with the mementum. Try a Mac, you'll be glad you did. Plus in an Ipod, you too will say more, or simply call someone – you can be connected!

By: Beanieville, Palo Alto, CA

Beanieville, Palo Alto, CA — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:31:30 +0000

Steve Jobs go, AAPL goes (down). They got great engineers but only 1 visionary.

http://www.beanieville.blogspot.com

By: Eric, Boulder CO

Eric, Boulder CO — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:30:14 +0000

From a technical perspective, Apple's reliance on Objective-C as its primary language will hinder Mac OS X software development much like C# has hindered .Net.