Francisco Martinez

Keep Burnett, she is smart and charming. I love to watch CNBC when she is on air.
Fire Bartiromo, she think is starring at a TV reality, I really can't stand her, yesterday she was rude even with some of her peers, thinking her appearance is more important than the news, and finally she was so loud-voiced that forced me to switch channels.

Bulls eye. I just had the same thoughts. As it's stated at their web page, Apple has reinvented the phone.
In 2 years, we'll see the real impact that all of this is bringing to the connected world.
Hope those guys at Nokia, Motorola, RIMM and Palm can sleep tonight, but wait, there is a way to seek cover : BUY some APPL stock :-) And Microsoft, you're taking dust selling OS and desktop suites, oh those boring products and many promises by BillG that have failed to capture the consumers' mind.

Bulls eye. I had the same thougths. As it's stated at their web page, Apple has reinvented the phone. In 2 years, we'll see the real impact that all of this is bringing to the connected world.
Hope those guys at Nokia, Motorola, RIMM and Palm can sleep tonight, but wait, there is a way to seek cover : BUY some APPL stock :-) And Microsoft, you're taking dust selling OS and desktop suites, oh those boring products and many promises by BillG that have failed to capture the consumers' mind.

Hey Mr., I think you could do some research before posting a comment like this. I used to read you and your own blog, but after seeing so many posts from you without any fundament, just for the sake of bashing Apple, you have lost all your credibility with me.
BTW, you may have waited for Steve Jobs appearance at Macworld today, but since you were again in a rush to say something wrong at Apple, you have made a moron of yourself. Have you checked the ticker lately ?

I fully agree, I bought Ciena just a couple of weeks ago, following the same assumptions, and looking for a good entry point after CIEN won a contract in China. I was a little disappointed at first because it lost some ground thereafter, wondering if I hade made a good pick. But I stayed putting a lot of fate on this stock, and I can't be happier now, and I'm going for long. My decision was not speculative, I did a lot of research and was pretty sure this company was ready for a turnaround.
BTW, your previous post gave me a reason to stay, since I’m not a risky investor. I wonder why nobody commented on it, perhaps investors just stick with the pack, looking for high profile companies or profiting is the hype that abounds these days in the market, but whit little knowledge of what are they doing.

Since this is a massive BLT marketing strategy, my conclusion is that MS is working hard into reaching a more broad mass of potential buyers, so they can meet their 10 MM unit sales before year end. Although a $ 30 off on the console is not significant (as it isn't any MS offer in their products), surely this promo can get some traction, at least some buzz at creating interest on the console, Anyway, I think that those guys at Redmond are a little worried about their much promised sales target.

I can't imagine how a company like Boeing lets anyone of their employees to carry such a huge amount of sensitive data on his laptop. If this is the case, I believe their CTO must be fired, for being years behind on security procedures for computers and data.
But what is most unbelievable, is Boeing silly statement that such laptop was turned off when it was stolen : what such of poor encouragement for all these people that have lost their privacy. This is very, very naive, anyone with a decent knowledge about PC's, knows how easy is to crack access to such machines, especially if any form of Windows runs in them.

I encourage all of you to read the truth at
http://www.blackfriarsinc.com/blog/2006/12/looking-at-forresters-side-of-itunes.html
Follow the links there too.
Final word : somebody with a lot of envy on Apple success, tried to use this report to throw a lot of garbage at it. The question remains, how these guys came up with a 65 % decline on iTunes sales, and more interesting, why so many morons believed it ?

I'm sick of Douglas McIntyre and his posts, trying to undermine Apple recent success, everything he writes is misleading or lacks any objectiveness, not to say there is no serious research about this stock.
I wonder why he hates Apple, perhaps is not as happy as I'm investing on Apple. But apart from this, he is denying any understanding of why Apple is a case study among the battered tech industry, something that many business schools, financial analysts, traders, investors, consumers, etc. are just starting to discover.
As for the recent stock decline (is up today again), may be you want to take some lessons, I suggest you a 101 crash course on investing.
BTW, I think that you are on a desperate need to short some APPL shares. I like some of your posts, but if you insist on bashing Apple, I'm not going to take you seriously anymore.

The other side of the coin (from sister site www.bloggingstocks.com) :

Microsoft's Xbox sales fail to impress
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/12/08/microsofts-xbox-sales-fail-to-impress/

The Xbox is supposed to be part of Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) plan to diversify beyond Windows. Other initiatives like its Zune multimedia player are off to a slow start. The company's online initiatives are behind those of Internet giants Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG).

But, market research firm NPD indicates the Xbox 360 sales may not be doing too well. Xbox 360 sales in the first 13 months that the product has been in stores are 6% higher than the regular old Xbox. That product was introduced in November 2001.

Six percent is not much. With Sony Corp.'s (NYSE:SNE) PlayStation 3 somewhat slow in getting to market, Microsoft should have expected more.

At least the Nintendo Wii is selling well.