Are you telling me Apple expects me to hold a tablet computer up to my face when I talk to people?
What scares me about Apple is the competition is comfortably capitalized and knocking on the door.
To me, Apple Maps seemed like the bigger embarrassment with so many seemingly obvious errors allowed to appear at launch.
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This space reminds me of Apple, vs Google vs Amazon but the prize is not the device and content audience.
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It would not surprise me if Apple was spending more than that in the March quarter given the weakness in the shares.
The foregoing indicates to me that Apple stock is over-owned and at least a good chunk is in the hands of investors who are not fundamentally oriented.
Sources with knowledge of this entire situation have assured me that Apple has submitted orders for millions of units of Qualcomm CDMA chipsets for a Verizon iPhone run due in December.
That schism caused friction with my employer, as Apple told IDC to take me off the Apple beat, but I kept talking to the press about the company anyway.
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All the gotcha stories on Apple of late has me wondering, is Apple the new Walmart?
It reminds me of when Apple announced Siri way back in 2011.
If you disagree with me, then Apple, which is down 22% in 10 weeks, is too cheap to resist.
And its imminent debt offering is just a part of what makes me wonder whether Apple could become the next Dell.
The essence of what dawned on me is that Apple MUST create a TV, but not for the reasons everyone thinks.
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It reminds me of the Apple Maps fiasco: An obvious problem ignored.
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What makes me think that Apple has a serious problem about computer malware is that I think that much more of it is to do with explanation two.
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One of those getting the most buzz was the Find My iPhone feature, which will be available only for customers of Mobile Me, an Apple service that lets users sync e-mail and other data between computers and iPhones.
It seems to me that while Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon will continue to take consumer electronics market share from Best Buy, hhgregg and others, Best Buy and hhgregg are looking to take on Sears (SHLD) and others as they reposition their business.
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Can Apple locate me based on my geo-tagged Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Apple lets me do this by using the Siri voice assistant on my iPhone.
Apple tells me that the remote wipe is likely irrecoverable without serious forensics.
This looks like a rather expensive mistake by Apple to me.
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Honoring Steve, for me, means demanding Apple earn my money as hard in its post-Steve era as when the Great Man was still with us.
In general, I found Match delivers on its promises, despite some limitations and glitches, several of which Apple told me it will remedy via software updates.
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But the biggest tribute I can pay to my Curve is that even after Apple sent me an iPhone to test, I still liked the Curve more.
Sure, there are tons of Android and Windows devices, but if you had told me years ago that Apple would be everywhere at the year's biggest nerdvention, I would have said you were insane.
But last week's news brought me back to reality, drawing away the soft blanket of Apple amnesia that was covering me.
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