As Apple events go this seemed rather dull. Partly this was the overall lack of surprise. We were expecting a new smaller iPad, check. A mini iPad with Retina, check. The release of OS X Mavericks, check but not the Free Upgrade, surprise. Details on the Mac Pro, again check. One more thing, not really.
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Rest of the year – setting expectation on Apple and AAPL Ever since Apple stock AAPL passed over $700 and then fell back to sub $400, I have been telling clients to be patient and not have ridiculous expectations. Those thoughts became most prevalent after Apple did not refresh the iPad this March. The effect
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Google reports and misses expectations. Hot on the heels of Microsoft miss, Google just reported Q2 results short of Wall Street\’s estimates as weakening prices for ad Words and widening losses from its Motorola mobile phone business weighed on the bottom line. The falling ad prices surprised analysts and investors, who expected recent changes to
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A recent Gartner report says PC sales fell 10.9% in quarter two. Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 76 million units in the second quarter of 2013, a 10.9 percent decrease from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. This marks the fifth consecutive quarter of declining shipments, which is the
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Lucy winner A couple of weeks ago Apple announced the 50B download competition. It is now too late to enter as someone, currently unknown is the lucky winner of the $10K iTunes card. Let’s stop and look at the iTunes business and relate this back to an earlier post about the value of the eco
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IDC Report According to IDC, PC sales fell 14 percent this quarter on a year over year basis, the biggest decline since IDC started tracking the PC market in 1994. IDC was only expecting a 7.7 percent drop for the first quarter. Last year Microsoft updated Windows, the software that runs over 90 percent of
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