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RE: Tim did well
By simsony on 10/30/2012 8:45:47 PM , Rating: 2
You're weird Tony. You remind me of a religious devout, whose prophet and messiah can do no wrong.

Apple is screwing up. This is a fact.

The maps. Siri as a headline feature but beta. The iCloud down times. The antenna. Nothing substantial since iPhone 4. Screwed up retail and head of retail hiring. Veteran of 15 years fired.

Maps is Apple's biggest screw up yet. So much so even they apologised, despite you excusing, forgiving and explaining for them. How you can be so blind as to not see that you were denying what Apple themselves are admitting!

Strawman replies about revenue don't answer the comments posed. That is still riding on momentum, with their brand and marketing. The question is not whether they are successful now, the question is are they doing the right things to be successful going forward.

Cause and effect don't follow immediately in business, especially this one.

Sometimes I wonder whether to bother replying. But then maybe you'll understand this time round? I'm not holding my breath. But you'd make an interesting subject for a psychologist and behavioural scientists I think. You really are unbelievable.

If your iPhone and your child were falling, who'd you save? Your child I imagine. But only because you can buy another Apple product!

RE: Tim did well
RE: Tim did well
By themaster08 on 10/31/2012 3:17:16 AM , Rating: 2
And yet you think they are in trouble.
Where did he ever say they were in trouble? Circumventing again, Tony?

He merely mentioned instances where Apple have screwed up (admittedly even), and you're simply unable to fathom that. So you do what you do best... Go off on a tangent with the tired old regurgitiated crap. That's your problem, Tony. In your eyes, Apple can do no wrong.

RE: Tim did well
By Tony Swash on 10/31/12, Rating: 0
RE: Tim did well
By Cheesew1z69 on 10/31/2012 8:37:16 AM , Rating: 3
You are so full of yourself...god you are pathetic.

RE: Tim did well
By simsony on 10/31/2012 8:41:09 AM , Rating: 2
OMG if you actually read it without thinking of me attacking your darling, you'd see that a screwup is not necessarily fatal.

Are they perfect? No, they are making mistakes. They have in the past (MobileMe anyone), they are making mistakes (Maps?) and they will make mistakes in the future. Will those mistakes affect them? That is what I am questioning.

I do acknowledge when Apple gets stuff wrong.

No you don't. You absolutely did not when Maps went wrong. Only later you started excusing and saying why it isn't a problem. After Apple themselves acknowledged the issue. Go and look back at your own posts.

Apple is faltering in some way when in fact there is no evidence for that

They fired a veteran of 15 years, fired a bad hire (in six months!), iTunes is now delayed. All firsts. No innovation since iPhone 4, innovation is supposed to be what Apple is about. I think a new product launch will be their only salvo.

Also it is not unnoticed that you do not reply when you cannot answer. Like your whole saga about Apple being forced to launch Maps in iOS6, something they fully control. Just to build deniability I bet.

My exclusively positive commentary is merely intended to help balance the wealth of ill-informed and hysterical negative nonsense spouted by many about Apple in these forums.

That only goes to damage your own credibility for objectiveness. A la an Apple nutjob.

An entertaining one though. Because you are just such a nut job! :D

RE: Tim did well
By Tony Swash on 10/31/2012 12:40:11 PM , Rating: 1

Are you a high school girl?

"OMG - it's like - iTunes is a whole month late - OMG - this means Apple are sinking - OMG - they sacked someone - OMG" - it's the beginning of the end

For christ grow up, calm down and stop being such an hysterical ninny.

This is the same old shite, iPhobics desperatly clutching at any straw, no mater how insubstantial, with which they can convince themselves that somehow Apple will falter, and perhaps even shrink. Dream on.

Meanwhile in the real world of grown ups Apple is spending over $8 billion a year on capital investment (careful - don't panic again - they can afford it).

That's 30% more than Intel, three times what Google spent, 3.5 times what Amazon spent and 4.8 times what Microsoft spent. That's Apple tooling up for their first £200 billion year.

What are they spending it on? I suspect mostly chip fab plants as it is clear they going all out for bespoke silicon and dumping Samsung ASAP, plus big investments in screen, battery and casing production.

BTW the Apple capital spend is bigger than the space programme. These dudes mean business.

RE: Tim did well
By Cheesew1z69 on 10/31/2012 12:58:35 PM , Rating: 2
Meanwhile in the real world
It's quite funny you post this almost every post as if YOU live in the real world. Your little fantasy land, it's not real. You might be the king in your little fantasy land, but in the actual real world, you are a loser.

RE: Tim did well
By simsony on 10/31/2012 6:16:35 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah call me a girl when you haven't got an answer. And then throw some random stuff about capex.

Maybe they just don't know how to do a data center cheaply. They sure don't know maps. Maybe they are buying up NFC readers. Rofl..

Anyone with cash can spend cash. What they are likely doing is trying to get the iTV product to have decent margins. A fab is pointless as they have no design flow and process experience. It is something you cannot build by just buying equipment, you need to real R&D like Intel and TSMC. I am quite certain the commentators of that article have no semiconductor engineering knowledge or experience.

Unless they buy a company, Apple won't be fabbing on their own anytime soon. Maybe fitting up TSMC. Apple goes to vendors who do the R&D for their displays, flash, ram, and must be buying the equipment for them. You cannot compare expenditure with Intel (only chips), Microsoft ( software) google ( software data Center) vs Apple who needs all the components and desire exclusivity.

In six months they could write it off and apologise to shareholders. "Our expectations for demand have not been met."

It can go either way and you know nothing to prove otherwise.

Maybe they should spend some of that money on maps and iCloud. Spending cash is not some wonderous thing as you seem to put it.

Nut job.

RE: Tim did well
By simsony on 10/31/2012 6:33:39 PM , Rating: 2
Btw Apple is also building a new office, so that could also be where the money is going.

