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    Do You Still Believe the Experts?

    June 22nd, 2009

    Ahead of this past weekend’s introduction of the iPhone G3 S, some analysts who should know better tried yet again to speculate upon how many units Apple would sell through Sunday. Most of the numbers were in the half million range, but were expanded to as high as 750,000 after AT&T announced they had receivedseveral […]


    So Apple Isn’t Looking Very Beleaguered!

    April 22nd, 2009

    Consider what some so-called tech pundits and industry analysts said in the long (some say endless) run up to Apple’s quarterly report. Mac sales are down and Apple has a problem. They’ve got to cut prices and rush out a netbook to save the business. Perhaps the best comment I read about Apple’s quarterly financials, […]


    Does Apple Prefer Fair Weather Friends?

    January 29th, 2009

    You know that Apple clearly has no interest in honoring the 25th anniversary of the Mac. The event wasn’t mentioned during Philip Schiller’s keynote at Macworld Expo, nor in the recent quarterly financial conference with industry analysts. The latest ads don’t harken back to the original 1984 commercial that attracted so much attention at the […]


    Apple Confounds the Skeptics All Over Again

    January 21st, 2009

    All right, just yesterday I was suggesting that Apple would record good sales for Macs and the iPhone, and, based on a preliminary survey, suggested iPod sales might decline slightly. But, as usual, Apple made the industry analysts and Wall Street money people look foolish. In the final quarter of 2008, which is actually the […]