- People complaining about Apple Air. Apple stock plummets.
- Movie industry admits that it made a mistake.
- HBO opens a test market for a form of IPTV.
- iPhone to be unlocked.
- Disney cellphone marketeers to target women.
- Kaspersky in the news.
- Motorola sliding.
- TV set sales to be triggered by SuperBowl.
- WordPress gets money.
John C, I’m quite sure that HBO test marketing in Milwaukee / Green Bay is to gauge acceptance, not technical viability.
In those places, you’ve got genuinely urban consumers, but with a more typically middle-American lack of technical sophistication than that of people in the major pop centers. New Yawkers, Angelenos, Houstonians, even down into the lower middle socioec demos, are more familiar with modern media and tech than most of the rest of the gen pop. So they need to see how it’ll go over with technically non-jaded consumers (and if they can cope with the rollout issues), but they need a setting with high media penetration… See what I’m saying?
I figure they wanna know if their (likely) buggy, too-much-too-soon implementation will be accepted by a pop with few tech-status-seekers and early adopters, or if Joe Sixpack is gonna say to his pals, “Aw, fuck it. This thing’s too much trouble. I’m goin’ back to NetFlix.”
Regardless of this non-apology, I think the movie industry should be sued by the colleges, for publishing misleading information and general defaming its alumnus. A lot of colleges spent money fixing their servers to block all that movie pirating that wasn’t happening.
As to the Tv sales. I’m thinking that they mean HDTV sales. And I have a major gripe about this. With a resession clearly looming. Instead of Congress merely dumping some bucks into the economy to hold up stock prices. Why don’t they extend the manditory analog Tv cutoff date to 2010? If so many of us are losing our jobs, buying an expensive HDTv isn’t high on our list of priorities of things we need. And yet this feb. 2009 deadline forces everyone to run and buy converter boxes or new sets. Or wind up in the dark, as far as Tv programming.
You – and just about everybody who has a television set – is gonna get a box for basically nothing.
Non-issue.
People complaining about the Apple MacBook Air?
LOL!
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New England at their finest should be fun to watch, but the biggie is the halftime show — Tom Petty will put on the best halftime show ever.
#6 pedro – They look really really good together and just as practical. 🙂
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Apple stock is falling because iPod sales have peaked and iPhones sales have been lower than predicted. Plus, Jobs intro’s a niche laptop the Macbook Air which will not boost sales of Mac’s. With a weakening economy Apple needed to boost it’s popular MacBook line or create a new affordable desktop to replace the Mini. Products like the Air is why Apple has only 6% of the market and Dell has 30%. A lot of user’s simply cannot shell out $1000 for a computer. They will buy the $400 Dell with a 19″ monitor. Jobs will have to learn to take less profit on a lower end model to get more user’s interested in Apple.
Apple targets the “fashion” market which is first to suffer in a failing economy.
No need for an MBA to see that coming.
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I read somewhere that people buy the biggest baddest TV for their super bowl party, then take it back the next week! May have been someone at a box store telling me this trying to explain their restock fees…
Boy, am I glad I don’t listen to Mac-haters, Google-haters…substitute any required name for my investment advice.
You klowns are about as useful as a Yahoo finance club when it comes to equity analysis.
Tee-hee.
#10 huh? what the…
Sorry, I was being an ass.
My quick and dirty rule on apostrophes: if you are not sure if you should use one, do not.
If that does not help, I apologize.
Pedro, why are you still speaking? I’ve destroyed you time and time again: You must enjoy being made an example of.
Idiot.
Personally, I’m not impressed by the MBA, though it really is aimed at the MBAs of the world and not those that do actual work.
That VMWare stock isn’t looking so bad anymore.