Posts Tagged ‘ iPad ’

How Far From Tree Will This Orphaned Apple Fall?

May 6, 2012
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SINCE THE PREMATURE BUT EXPECTED death of its beloved and feared CEO and technical design guru—Steven Jobs—of pancreas cancer, Apple stock has shot to its all-time high, and now since new iPad was released, that same white hot Apple stock has taken a most rude hit, falling nearly 15%. Now, the talking heads at Apple are suggesting that a smaller footprint of the iPad is in the works, but trouble with non-starters like Apple’s creative but completely legal tax schemes and the usual chicanery concerning its Asian labor force have hastened the fall. What gives? In the midst of all this bad news Apple announced a stock dividend, but we haven’t heard anything about that in a while. We now realize that as usual, the skim is being siphoned off the market for those with bold market plans, and those meek weak loyalists who were pleasantly charmed by such faux news have taken a bath in subsequent trading days, er, I mean weeks. We just hope this trend is not a repeat of fortunes...

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Apple’s Stock Sputters After 10% Falloff

August 22, 2011

STILL ONE OF THE STRONGEST PERFORMING stocks on the market, Apple (AAPL) has sputtered up and down and around the $358 mark for a week or so now. After soaring over the $400 mark just before the exchanges around the world began tumbling on the news of Europe’s banking crisis, Apple has been trapped in that investor’s uncertainty box once again. What is ironic, but then what is more ironic than the stock market, Apple’s stock had just been projected to reach $540 on the strength of its continued success with the iPad. That and more than $86 BILLION sitting on the sidelines, Apple is positioned to continue its revival quest to gain marketshare that it somehow could not capture with its long line of personal computers. Payback is hell, laddies. Today, unlike a dozen or so previous opening bells here in the United States where the overseas markets almost always crumbled over night, Wall Street opened up with a substantial gain. Unfortunately the line has been slipping all morning. As usual, it’s the...

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Apple’s Competition Stiffens, Others Die Off

August 22, 2011

NEWS FROM THE PAD SECTOR. Hewlett-Packard has taken a dump. After a mere seven weeks on retail shelves, HP has thrown in the towel, pulling its WebOS TouchPad off the shelves in a brutal corporate defeat. Apple just has too much juice oozing from its iPad to suffer wannabes lightly. Heres’ the latest line. Apple’s iOS tablet software accounted for 61.3 percent of the tablet market in the second quarter, more than double the 30.1 percent share held by Google’s Android, its nearest competitor. Microsoft held a paltry 4.6 percent share and RIM 3.3 percent, according to Strategy Analytics. But the landscape could soon change. Google’s move this week to buy Motorola Mobility, a hardware manufacturer, has also potentially raised the stakes against Apple as it will give the Internet leader slick, new devices to showcase its undergirding software—matching the Apple model.

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Oprah Loves It, Too!

November 24, 2010

OPRAH WINFREY PROCLAIMED that the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad tablet device is her No. 1 favorite thing ever, as a part of a series this week where the television personality has unveiled her list of her “ultimate favorite things.” “From our very first moment together, I knew it had stolen my heart,” Oprah told her audience of 275, who each received an iPad of their own.

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