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OMG, An Analyst Just Compared Apple To Blackberry, Motorola, And HTC

I love all these comments. Everyone writes in absolutes, as if they know exactly what the future holds. Armchair experts everywhere predicting Apple's doom. If you are Apple management and you know what the criticisms of your current business strategy are, do not not discuss the criticisms to determine whether or not they are valid? Does everyone think that Apple management is so dumb that they are not incorporating into future business plans the concerns expressed by its customers? None of you know anything. Admit it. You have opinions, but so does Misek and he looks like an idiot with his wacko predictions. I do blame Apple for being less media friendly and, as someone commented earlier, losing control if its message. Apple needs to be less haughty, more communicative, and more willing to defend its business strategy by being more transparent. Zealously guarding its technology hasn't stopped anyone from slavishly copying it and profiting from Apple's work. The company's attempts at secrecy never work. Everyone knows what's coming before any new product is rolled out bc it outsources its production. So, if secrecy doesn't work, why not try something else. Google glass may never hit the market but everyone sure got excited when Sergey showed it off.

There's No Way Apple Can Blame 'Rumors' For Weak iPhone Sales This Quarter

This article was brought to you by the Samsung Galaxy S III. Seriously. The advert when I opened this page stated that Business Insider is brought to me by the Samsung Galaxy S III. This is an opinion piece, not straight news reporting, so I suppose some bias is to be expected, but your opinion carries no weight whatsoever when you pen a hatchet piece on the foremost competitor of the company that is sponsoring your website, Jay.

DEAR PEOPLE WHO THINK APPLE IS GOING TO $1,000 A SHARE: Here's Why You Might Be Idiots...

Here's the thing, Henry. Is it important that Apple garner a $1 trillion market cap? It's really not. People become infatuated with ideas and lately the idea of Apple reaching $1 trillion in market cap has everyone in a spin. If it doesn't, does that mean that Apple has failed? I was forturnate enough to realize early on promise of the iPod and so I have done very nicely owning the stock since 2005. If it doubles from here then that is great, but from my perspective Apple is perhaps the most remarkable turnaround story in the history of business. If the market catches up with Apple and it cannot overcome the obstacles that you lay out in your article, it will not, in my mind, diminish the accomplishments of the company that very clearly has redefined the way in which we conduct our electronic lives.

CHART OF THE DAY: This Chart Is Driving Apple Bulls Crazy

Now, wait a minute Henry. What could possibly be wrong with wanting the investment you made in Apple to go up in value? Apple shareholders do have a special zeal for the company (I am one) but as with the shareholders in any public company, the goal is to maximize the return on your investment. Apple shareholders are not mad that Mr. Market has not accorded the shares a premium valuation, they are mad that the market will not accord the company a valuation that parallels its performance. It wasn't too many years ago that tech analysts had to predict earnings 3-4 years out in order to justifiy the multiples accorded to a company ( I distinctly reading a research report in 1999 for a company like Webvan that stated that, based on projected 2003 earnings of 35 cents per share, the shares..." That was my "Aha" moment. When analysts had to go out four years to justify current valuation, I knew that the end was near. I'm sure you remember. But I digress. Despite your animosity to Apple's zealots, surely you can understand their point of view. If you didn't know the name of the company and were told that Company X had grown its revenues at a 65% annual clip for the past five years but was trading at a 13 p/e, you'd wonder why. wouldn't you? No one knows why the market really refuses to pay up, but it does. All of the reasons that have been put forth are reasons that have existed for years–market cap, Steve Jobs' health, faddishness of product line, increased competition, recession–yet Apple continues to grow at a pace that delights shareholders and confounds the skeptics. Shareholders' faith in Apple is justified by the company's performance, is it not? So, even though Apple has done what its shareholders believed it would, the reaction from the market has always been, "well, it can't continue." That line of reasoning gets old when Apple proves year after year that, in fact, it has continued. At some point, the skeptics will be right and they will loudly proclaim, "See? I told you that it couldn't continue!" Nevermind that it took ten years to be right.

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