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Posted by a local Seattle guy to his friends:

Fed up with Qwest and Comcast, am dropping all wired phone and internet.

As of early next week you'll have to reach me on my cell number:

(###) ###-####

This is on a prepaid phone with prepaid minutes

My now mobile internet will be with Verizon, 3G network, at 5gb/month for $60, and no contract.

It will be used by a new, white, Apple Ipad 2, with 64gb internal memory,
and which allows tethering to a wireless router so I can use all of the devices I currently own (3 laptops, 2 towers, and a Mac Mini). Cost with warranty, and tax $910.

When I want to do large uploads or downloads, I'll go to a free wireless site.

For my large database access I'll use my home network (computers with 6terrabytes of internal storage), or my external storage devices (currently at 4terrabytes)

So the PC computer in my house is dying or dead. Long live Steve Jobs and good old Apple Computer, inventor and perfecter of the Ipod shuffle/nano/classic and touch, Apple TV, iPhone 1 through 4 (and counting), iPad 1 and 2, Macbook and Pro and Air, iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro, and poor little iTunes.

And I predict that shortly they will introduce iNet, a 4g speed, fiber optically linked international wireless, and iSat, a super high speed satellite network, which will span the earth, and be accessible everywhere GPS is now. They will be the leader in the transmission of all data, phone, radio, TV, and other secret electronic communication.

So is it unreasonable to assume where most of my poorly earning savings has gone or is going? AAPL Buy it now while it's still under a grand a share (remember gold, at $20/OZ.)

down goes nasdaq… apple goes further down. inexplicably. buy targets commonly still around $445. if i hadn't already tossed my spare change at it, it'd be good time to buy. $330!!!

arggh..

Looks like Apple beat Nokia into submission by pelting it with cash.

I read somewhere that Apple can afford the cash, but by setting a precedent, they are making it harder for people who can't pay the cash to use those patents.

Late edit: here it is

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/14/apples-nokia-deal-could-cost-android-manufacturers-too/



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/14/2011 12:05PM by Mokers.

Well, Apple never maintained that they weren't using technology that was covered by the patents, just that Nokia had undertaken to offer them at reasonable rates to help establish standards and that they were not making them available to Apple at those rates. Apple knew that they owed money, but wanted to use the courts to coerce reasonable rates out of Nokia. They may have succeeded; I doubt that they're paying the rates that Nokia originally demanded.

Sometimes it's not a good idea to push your patent portfolio too far.

I have always felt sorry for Kodak for some reason.

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I have always felt sorry for Kodak for some reason.

Kodak was a buggy-whip manufacturer. And they made absolutely top-notch buggy-whips; they dominated the buggy-whip market; they innovated within the buggy-whip market.

Then cars came along.

I feel most sorry for the Rochester region, which was so heavily dependent on Kodak's success for its prosperity.

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I feel most sorry for the Rochester region, which was so heavily dependent on Kodak's success for its prosperity

Don't forget that Xerox used to be Rochester too. At least they've still got Wegman's ;-)

Incredible to see the slingshot effect on Aapl. A couple of weeks ago, I was down $10,000. Now am up a small amount, but fully expect the rise to continue. The news that's come out lately is minor compared to the news earlier this year. Wild.

I keep wondering how much Apple will steal from xBox and PS3 with the Appletv when it becomes a gaming platform. This has got to be in the works. Use your iPad or iPhone as a controller. For $99 you have a gaming platform that sells you cheap games and makes you buy extra versions of angry birds. Even with all its limits—maybe precisely because of all its limits—I think it'd be colossal. My current bet is that it'd be out in September, once the roar from Lion dies down and in time for Christmas. Then again, new product introductions tend to be in the spring so that would make sense.

Daring Fireball just linked to this observation that AAPL tends to do much better in the second half of the year. I doubt the waves have anything to do with Apple's actual products and more to do with manipulation and the overall market.

I don't really see Apple TV becoming a platform for apps. What's wrong with the current way, where your iPod/iPad is the controller and the platform? Instead of writing another platform variant of an app, just stream to the Apple TV. It works well now. In Apple's world, you're never sitting in front of your TV without an iOS device at hand anyway.

It looks like the NASDAQ in general does better in the second half of the year -- from an eyeballing, it seems also that AAPL follows the composite deltas, with a small lag: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=1y&s=^IXIC&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=AAPL

In other words, it seems as the NASDAQ composite goes, so goes AAPL -- sure there are small deviations at singular events, but the correlation seems pretty strong.

ddt

AppleTV as a gaming platform would wipe out Nintendo in a few weeks. Remember the hand held gaming market with its cartridge based software distribution against insane margins?

Nintendo attracts the casual or even novice gamer, AppleTV coupled with some bluetooth controllers, an existing iTunes account and a nice HDMI screen would woo these people away in a blink of the eye.

I think the potential is huge. The only hitch is that the 2nd generation Apple TV can't support it since it only has 8GB onboard flash memory. But it does have a microusb port. I haven't seen where that's located but if it's accessible, it could be used for an external drive. That'd be ugly, but Apple could also sell a 3rd generation AppleTV with an ipod sized hard drive for $100 more and still be way cheaper than an equivalent console.

On the other hand… the sad thing is that now that we have an Xbox we see just how impossible my attempt to use a Mac Mini as an all in one media and gaming platform was. Sorry, Apple you didn't pull that off.

I don't know if we'll ever see dedicated Apple game controllers.

Yes we will. They are called iPhones and IPod touches.

Toy Story 3 already uses them with the Mac OS version and Scrabble uses them with iPad version…

I don't know if we'll ever see dedicated Apple game controllers.

You didn't answer my question - what's wrong with the current way, where your iPod/iPad is the controller and the platform?

one word; group play. (OK, two words)

Think casual gaming like the WII introduced. John Carmack seems to think along the same lines, although he's confining iOS to handheld devices.

With the AppleTV, Apple has a platform which is as easy to program for as a PC, but with the hardware stability of a console. Count the facts that it doesn't try to be the fastest or the most advanced console on the face of the earth, plus that games could sell for less than $10 each and I think Apple could be selling them like hotcakes.

People may not realise it yet, as there aren't any (sanctioned) apps for the AppleTV yet, but once you've jailbroken it you can see the platform's potential.

I'm sure Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony must be getting uneasy while playing war games...



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/10/2011 09:07PM by tliet.

All you describe could still be done with the current scheme. One iPad/Pod would host the game and stream to the AppleTV, and talk to the other handhelds to communicate controls. It's simpler for developers because the TV is a dumb output device instead of another platform with another UI paradigm.