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09.28.07

Fanboys driving stock prices apple, howard lindzon | Comments
Ever wonder how to own a company and your customers? Study Apple. Namely how they can manage to alienate their doubly-valuable customers, those influential early adopters that buy the latest-and-greatest -- full price and all -- then sell the lifestyle around the world and on the Internet, yet still have them buy and buy. Howard Lindzon provides the professional analysis: I would short it fo [sic] a trade, but the way it’s going with Apple, people will go to the store to get their phone fixed and buy 2 laptops. The stock will go up $5 instead of down $5.
07.07.07

Apple and their obsession with being closed apple, drm, facebook, fred wilson, industry, iphone, microsoft, myspace, steve jobs | Comments
I have always enjoyed Fred Wilson's musings on technology. From my understanding, he and I seem to agree quite often on issues that I read through his blog. I am surprised to hear that he is just now seeing the danger in Apple's model of a proprietary software-hardware model. I am particularly concerned that I'll have to use iTunes to synch music and photos instead of being able to drag and drop. This post explains there is no way to get music and photos onto the iPhone without using iTunes. I've got way more than 8 gigs of music on my ...

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