DISQUS

I'd sure like to know how one company could constantly come up with revolutionary products every year and still manage to build a product line. Only tech-heads like yourself want to have a completely new product to play with. And then you'd also get angry asking why do I have to keeping buying a new product every year just to keep up. It's okay if you have a lot of money to keep upgrading, but for the rest of us it's not that easy.

I'm not sure what you want from a new iPhone that a minor overall upgrade isn't good enough. Apple is not going to load the iPhone with cutting edge hardware because it really isn't profitable to try and please a few tech-heads when most of the iPhone users are satisfied with the product for the most part. I praise Apple for having a good product and fine tuning for most users in general. Most handsets will not have OLED screens or 10MP cameras or double the battery life in a generation, so I don't see why Apple should have to do than when it's handsets function better than most handsets on the market. Super hardware doesn't sell products.

I just think tech-heads are jaded and don't appreciate dependable products. Surely you have no clue about running a profitable business. Take a look at the Xperia X1 and see what happened to that handset and how it failed and how hard it was to get parts and how it didn't sell at all even though it had such great hardware. Running a business is not just for fun and games. Thousands of jobs depend on products that sell, and not just for the sole purpose of exciting certain people.

It's nice if Apple comes out with some revolutionary new product every few years (four or five), but demanding one company do so every year is just going a little too far. How about some other companies do it for a change.

Apple isn't even going up against Microsoft. Apple is moving in the opposite direction. MS wants users to buy cheap. Apple wants users to buy quality. I don't think that Apple can every seriously compete with Microsoft. There are far more people in this world with lower standards that will buy low-priced products over expensive higher quality products. There are far more poor people in this world than those with plenty of money to spend. Any company that caters to the poor will automatically have a far greater market share. Think Nokia and Dell.

Apple is basically catering to the elite who will always be in the minority. But does it really matter? I don't care if all of the people in my neighborhood are happy to own $400 Windows PCs as long as I can afford to buy an OSX-powered Mac. Their choice is not my problem. Each individual has personal preferences. Apple and Mac computer market share seems to be destined to reach only 20% in the U.S., but that's still a pretty decent number for Apple investors to shoot for and make money.

So, while Apple will never win the outright war against MS, it will continue to win small battles for Mac, iPhone and iPod owners.

It's not that it's bad. It's just that it ain't nothing special and offers little more than any other platform such as WinMo or Symbian or WebOS is offering. It might take some better hardware to get people to start using it in really large numbers. Maybe Motorola might get real lucky with some neat model. But noting Motorola's crappy past performance, it seems like a longshot. Meanwhile the BlackBerry and iPhone will keep rolling along unchallenged in the smartphone market.

It will be an absolutely fantastic game machine if it has the VRGraphics chip. A color eBook reader, video and music player, artist's canvas, picture viewer, etc. If Apple can just get it out relatively quickly and price it halfway decently, Apple will hit a home run.

Bulkiest accessory, ever. I really feel sorry for the Japanese users that have to lug that thing along with their iPhone. One stinking hour viewing is an outright disgrace. ベんりじゃないんだからな。

Nobody on WS cares about this report or Apple's cash reserve. Apple's stock price is a goner, thrown into the dung heap with every other tech stock. Even if Apple has blowout earnings, they're only gonna move the stock price to about $115. Hardly impressive for a stock that was kissing $200 ten months ago. Forget it. The American economy has been derailed and Apple is going along for the ride on the undercarriage.

It seems to me that if a minimalist architect ever designed a notebook, then Apple's notebooks are it. Unfortunately users around the world are not interested in minimalist. They like to see slots and holes and lights and lots of other extra stuff that they think they should get for the extra money they're paying out. Buyers don't like to think they're getting less for their money. I think those new MacBook Pros are absolutely fantastic from the inside out. That circuit board layout is a thing of simplicity and the outside is just so clean. But then again I'm a diehard Mac User since 1984. I like things clean and simple. I do wish that Apple could have put an SDHC slot without ruining the lines, but I'll have to settle for a clean, solid and minimalist notebook instead. There doesn't appear to be anything that can fall off or break when I take a long, hard look at them.

Still, they won't sell to the majority of Windows notebook users who demand slots and fingerprint readers and Intel stickers all over their machines. They just feel they're getting more for their money from a $400 computer with lots of extras even if their machines fall apart in a month. More people are proud of buying cheap in these rough economic times.

OMG. I can't wait to hear from the first loyal Palm user that says his ancient Palm can do this better than the iPhone as they're always ready to boast about. That is a really neat application for musicians. Who the heck would expect to turn their handset into a wind instrument? I wonder if this can be turned into other sorts of wind instruments, like say, a clarinet or a bagpipe. Hoho. I'm totally impressed.

Well, that seems fairly useless. What exactly was it doing? Moving on it's own or was it programmed or was it being controlled by the dude tapping on the notebook?