Not exactly the stuff that makes one want to run out and buy an Apple.
Yankee Group surveyed 506 people and almost half of them (47%) plan to buy an Apple iPad.
He is investing in the stock market in hopes of making enough money to buy an Apple Inc.
She'd like to see Apple link to its Siri Privacy policy on its Siri FAQ so that consumers can figure out what's going on before they buy an Apple product.
However, for a potential customer on the cusp of deciding whether to buy an Apple or an Android phone, this blatantly dishonorable move to take away from consumers something that they liked and put in its place a home-grown but inferior substitute is likely to push them definitively into the Google camp.
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They make real products that real people use, and there are many reasons why somebody might buy a Microsoft product over an Apple product.
On why you might want to buy Windows phones instead of an Apple iPhone: he says your information is front and center, not a sea of icons.
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It has to be so good that buyers otherwise predisposed to Apple or Microsoft would buy an Android phone instead.
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In other words, an investor can buy growth cheaper by buying Apple than by buying its suppliers.
Jones, a principal at Sand Hill Insights in Menlo Park, California, says his preference as an investor is for Apple to buy back its shares a lot of them.
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In the case of the Countrywide acquisition, Bank of America bought out its stock, just as an average investor may buy shares in Exxon or Apple.
In that sense, a customer who would not buy an iPhone 5 with a two year contract but would buy an iPhone 4 is not a lost iPhone 5 sale that Apple has somehow failed to convert to their flagship, but a new addition to the Apple ecosystem, with a strong chance they will buy more Apple products in the future.
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"When you look at the fundamentals of Apple, we see it as an incredible value buy, " he says.
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Apple's challenge is that getting people to buy an iPod, a new type of device, is easier than getting them to switch loyalties in an existing product category.
It had an on again, off again relationship with Best Buy, the Apple store within CompUSA was tucked into a back corner and lacked the Apple specialists needed to work with customers, and a fling with Circuit City came as that chain was on its way out.
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Not long ago Steve was seen camping outside an Apple Store so he could be among the first to buy the latest Apple iPhone.
Lastly, the earnings call would be the time to make an announcement on cash use, either a buy back or a dividend, should Apple decide to do this.
Apple (AAPL) had multiple buy prices since the earnings miss creating almost an almost 70-80 point run.
Apple has what seems to be an endless line of consumers willing to buy its products, with iPhones, iPads and MacBook Airs among the top items on many Christmas wish lists.
We don't suppose there's any friendlier way to put this: Open Tech Inc. is setting itself up for an Apple lawsuit, without any of the nice "product people will want to buy" stuff to balance out the equation.
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This plan is also how you could turn GM's impossibly broad lineup of cars into an unmatchable asset. n Michael Eisner, chairman and CEO of Walt Disney: Buy Apple Computer, and tell your board that the brilliant Steve Jobs is your successor. n Steve Jobs, chairman of Pixar Studios, chairman and interim chief executive officer of Apple Computer: Steve, take Eisner's offer.
Apple could theoretically buy back 33 percent of its market cap if it wanted to, an artificial dividend to shareholders.
So, without any information or signals out of Apple, whether or not to buy on Monday depends on two criteria: valuation versus downside risk and an assessment (WAG) if Apple has anything up their sleeves for the earnings call.
It lets me choose what I want to watch, when I want to watch, whether a show I buy through my Apple TV or some foreign movie I stream on Hulu Plus that makes me feel like an artsy college student again.
Apple TV's thin ranks of owners will have an even skimpier lineup of shows to buy.
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