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at the end of the day. Steve Jobs had the final say on everything.

Xerox invested $1 million in Apple by purchasing 100000 shares at $10 each.

Apple stole ideas and made them better.

Google and MS stole ideas and made them worse.

You're trying too hard. People usually do that when they're defending someone they know is guilty. People usually just let the facts speak for themselves.

Google was in a hurry trying to catch up to Apple by implementing half-baked, poorly-planned, poorly-implemented features. Most of them copied from the iPhone, BB, and with ICS, Windows phone 7. Btw, how many times did your Android phone crash/freeze today? got any virus/malware/spyware today? how's your battery life? you like that shitty app you got from the android market? don't try to answer these questions (they're rhetorical).

whatever you think will make you happy.

Andy Rubin: "We’ll see how pervasive it gets."

And then we'll shamelessly copy it.

This kind of thinking is the reason why you will never be an innovator Andy, always the follower.

Google is a false prophet hiding behind the veil of their "don't be evil" mantra. Google is the real evil corporation but these geeks are too blind to see it. Now they know what these guys at Google are up to.

I've used SPSS and SAS for the following tasks:

churn analysis, market basket analysis, sequence analysis, segmentation, anomaly detection, risk management, forecasting

Homage to Windows phone 7. How about we call it what it is. A Windows 7 rip-off.

Let's call this article what it is. This article is just shameless self promotion by an obese man with nothing to do. its disgusting that he had to single out Apple and Steve Jobs to get media attention, when Motorola/Samsung/Sony/HP/Dell/Cisco/etc. does the same thing.

It's really too bad carriers wont allow majority of Android users to upgrade to ICS.

How about:

No crashing No virus/malware/spyware Less Crappy apps Better user interface Better battery life

Android is growing fast because its on every crappy free/buy one get one smartphones that are basically used as a glorified feature phone, NOT because its good.

Fast and responsive on this hardware, sure. But what about the other less powerful, free, bogo Android phones out there? Will your carrier-crippled Android phone be able to even upgrade to ICS?

same thing applies. year-over-year comparisons are more accurate.

@phil it's true for all numbers.

timing of product launches doesn't matter. In finance investors always compare year over year to evaluate the performance of their investments.

@clarky07 exactly. Apple's PE is unbeleivably low. if you put Apple on the same PE multiple it traded on in 2006, Apple's market cap would be $1 Trillion.

Why Apple might just be the first $1 trillion company http://blogs.reuters.com/columns/2011/08/09/why-apple-might-...

You don't compare numbers against the previous quarter, you compare numbers against the same quarter, the previous year.

Apple's gross margin this quarter was 40.3 percent, compared to 36.9 percent in the year-ago quarter

I posted this on another thread.

"Seven Reasons the Shorts Love Apple" is an investor's must-read. Hedge funds: Riding the AAPL slingshot http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2009/12/20/hedge-funds-riding-th...

Long nicknamed the “favorite yo-yo” of daytraders and hedge fund managers – Apple’s high beta of 1.43, its prominent position in finance media and its vulnerability to rumors has made it a choice stock in short term profits, both through long and short positions http://www.investorguide.com/article/6809/apples-aapl-mini-c...

Hedge Funds, Bloggers and the Origin of Apple Rumors http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/30/about-that-iphone-5-d...

Samsung employee caught leaking information to hedge fund manager before iPad launch http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-14/ex-samsung-worker-s...

these "estimates" are artificially inflated by hedge funds with short positions in AAPL.

AAPL didn't lie. they're just conservative.

why would you buy stock at a premium unless you're buying put options?

Apple "lied"?? rofl.

wrong. read my other comment above.

read my comment above.

Yeah $37 billion guidance. guidance for the previous quarter was only $25 billion. holy crap.

What you have to understand is that most of these artificially high estimates were created by hedge funds with short positions in AAPL.

1) release an artificially high revenue estimate 2) wait for actual results 3) wait for stock to dip when estimate > actual results 4) sell short positions 5) profit

These analysts are not actually idiots, they're evil.

so a quarterly revenue of $25 billion is "laughably" low?

This too.

Apple profits jump 54% on record sales

Only idiot Wall street analysts would be disappointed by a 54% jump in profit.

For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $28.27 billion and net quarterly profit of $6.62 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.

Apple's yearly profit and revenue were company records with Apple reporting more than $100 billion in yearly revenue for the first time ever.

Typical BS. These are the same clueless analysts who predicted iPhone 4S sales were going to be a disaster.

This is a blockbuster quarter for Apple. They earned $8 Billion more than the year-ago quarter.