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Again, if they are taking iOS to be the next UI on top of *nix....

Well, that's it for Apple. Too bad. We had a good run...

One thing I hadn't thought of before … 

The iPhone and iPad has a major advantage: CHINA. Why? Because the Android without Google is like an iPhone or iPad without iTunes. Except that there's no Google in China.

Now mind you, it's not that clear cut, but still …

Oh that and Samsung is way, way behind in Korea. That fiercely nationalistic country that has a major love for the Korean-built iPhone and major hate for the Japanese-built Samsung smart products. ;)

What's the word for the binary opposite of "beleaguered?"

Apple?

not sure if I am thinking correctly, but these come to mind.

emancipated
triumphant
victorious
unassailed
unreproachable (sic)

Triumphant.

As good as AAPL is doing, compare it to ARM: Google Finance. All ships rise in a post-PC sea. Got some more of that this week when I finally sold my crappy Nintendo shares.

Hmm... Exxon still has a good $100Bn on Apple. Apart from that - there's nothing between them and world domination™

Could you imagine someone predicting that back in '97? You'd have thought they had kool-aid poisoning...

Because of my panic around Jobs's health back in January and subsequent reentry, I have lost around $1,000 on the stocks I had so far. I have almost tripled my stake in Apple today, adding $54,000 to the existing funds. Yet again, the consensus seems to be $450 in a year. I could be wrong. I don't think I am.

I hope you're not. Jobs could still die at any minute, but I think that the company would still have real potential for growth in the next few years. I'm hoping that Mr. Jobs lives forever or, failing that, that much of the psychological effect of his demise was already factored into the stock price when he left on medical leave.

I wouldn't want to be holding AAPL if/when Jobs leaves the company - through death/illness whatever.

Obviously the company is more than one man - but the stock will plummet regardless of that fact.

The stock market is anything but rational.

Then it's met its match in me!

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I'm hoping that Mr. Jobs lives forever

Keep an eye out for the rebranding of 'iLife' ;-)



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iMmortality?

Hm, that weirdly resonates with this talk today:

Post-mortem Social Networks: Unearthing new spaces of death and grief
Jed Brubaker, UC Irvine
Thursday, 5 May (TODAY)
3-4 p.m.
Berkeley Institute of Design (http://bid.berkeley.edu/directions)

Abstract

After we die, our online accounts live on. By one estimate, over 408,000 US Facebook users will die in 2011 alone. This leaves friends and families with both the opportunity and struggle of incorporating these identities into their practices of grief and mourning. The presence of post-mortem profiles raises important questions: How are practices of online memorialization connected to conventional rituals of grief and mourning? What is the role of the profile post-mortem? How do trajectories of death and dying incorporate both online and offline concerns? I present findings from two studies that detail the emerging phenomena of post-mortem profiles and of ongoing experiences with the deceased via social network sites (what I call "post-mortem social networking"). These new practices highlight spatial, temporal, and social expansions enabled by social network site infrastructure, and let us consider their impact on online behavior more broadly.


Jed Brubaker is a PhD student in Informatics at UC Irvine researching digital identity, social media, representation, and the often invisible distinction between us and our data. Recently this has included studies of death on social network sites, queer geosocial applications, the relationship between infrastructure and self-presentation, and "single-use" identities on craigslist Missed Connections. This work draws from CSCW, HCI, psychology, science and technology studies, and critical theory. At UC Irvine, Jed is part of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction (LUCI) and the STAR Group. He previously earned his M.A. at Georgetown University in Communication, Culture and Technology, and his B.S. at the University of Utah in Psychology. Jed is jed.brubaker at uci.edu, www.jedbrubaker.com, and @whatknows

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Apple could also opt for the Bentham Option.

My brother played an MMO with a friend, and did an online comic with him. When my brother died, his friend put up a tribute page with some moving words and a picture of my brother's MMO characters in attitudes of mourning. It was the most touching gesture, and quite unexpected. I visited the page every day for two years, until he finally took it down in a website re-organization. I should have snagged the page while it was up. Not the same thing as unintended online immortality, I know, but the subject struck this chord with me.

Nuts. Tried to post a web archive link, but the forum doesn't like urls with two http segments in them.



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Back to topic, I am more concerned about a slide back into a double-dip recession than I am about AAPL in particular tanking.

The bastards are hurting my stock! Stop them, Mr. S.E.C. Chairman!