Is Apple Doomed?

Or put another way, if Apple's future competition is Google and less so, Windows Live, how are they planning to compete? More hardware?

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wow you just criticized your own lame straw man argument.... Apple is competing with "the internet"? Wow.

In all seriousness though, if the platform of the future is "the Internet" what is Apple doing to cover their bases?

Certainly the ipod synergizes well as far as being a content viewer.

Or put another way, if Apple's future competition is Google and less so, Windows Live, how are they planning to compete? More hardware?

Was Vista's lameness a major factor for my decision to finally make the switch to the Mac? Absolutely!

Just to continue my path of slagging off Erica, seriously though, I have nothing against you - I genuinely and generally enjoy reading your posts. I did however want to comment on the over-sensualised headines. Do we really need to have the 'Is Apple doomed' headline every week?

Absolutely hilarious:

With Zune's easy wireless networking, you can share your music, movies, photos and files to other mp3 players, no messing around. A quality FM radio is included with Zune

The $50 dip was a normal reaction to AAPL's stock split. Some [crazy] people don't understand the meaning of a stock split and sell their shares. If those people weren't there, THEN it would be unhealthy.

If you take a look at the graphical representation of the AAPL stock and you connect some lines, you'd see that it's even possible for Apple to drop down to $30! This is not a bad thing (well sort of), because afterwards, they can climb again, and imagine: you buy AAPL shares at $30 and they climb to $90 again. That's a 300% increase! Is that a bad thing? No, because "it keeps the cash flowing".

One last thing: it's not necessarily that you loose profit when the stock is going down. There are such things as put options :-)

HOLY CRAP, Old Joe is right! *He* is actually a *she*! I've been hornswaggled! Blown out the back door! I'm a Downtown Clown! I'm not worth the gum I stepped in yesterday!

I bow down humbly at her feet! She is the Almighty Great One at the keyboard! I am not worthy! Freakin' brilliant. I wish I had that kind of creativity. Let me check. Nope. I don't.

http://forums.mactalk.com.au/showthread.php?p=224953#post224953

He is the Great One!

*He* is actually a *she* :)

Given that most posters on here haven't figured that out from a cursory look at the site it makes their rants over an obviously satirical piece even funnier. How silly do some of you feel now?

HOLY CRAP, atheistbuddha is right! The article has to be a complete joke! Look around the web site the article appears on. This guy is a freakin' good, creative writer! Had me fooled, that's for darn sure. This guy ought to be writing for tuaw.com, or contributing to MacDailyNews or something!

And here my calendar says it's Thanksgiving Eve. This guy's calendar must say it is freakin' APRIL FOOL'S!!!

I bow down humbly at his feet. He is the Great One!