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From: znu@fake.invalid
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John Bailo wrote:
> Afrosheenix wrote:
>
> > Fact 1. While OSX was still in the works, when Jobs was trying to
> > figure out how to blend old code with the NEXT architecture, Apple
>
> You mean sell off his old assets to Apple.
>
> > developed twin systems. Remember Blue Box/Yellow Box/Red Box? Yeah. One
> > of those ran natively on x86 hardware.
> >
> > Fact 2. Apple, at one time, had every intention of shipping Rhapsody
> > for x86. Why they didn't is anyone's guess, maybe had something to do
>
> Cool, so I could listen to Sheryl Crow on OSX!
>
> > with the company nearly tanking before the iMac's debut and the return
> > of Insanely Great Steve. (Which Steve is up to you :) May have had
> > something to do with the fact that Apple makes alot of it's money from
> > hardware sales, and can't possibly compete with 'cloners'. Look what
> > happened when they temporarily opened themselves up to cloning in the
> > 90's. OUCH.
>
> Apple is now the world's 2nd largest Pump n' Dump scheme ( right behind
> Google). They've already siphoned off 25 percent of people's mutual
> fund monies by going from $44 to $35...will they go for 50 percent?
Yeah, wow, what a bad deal:
http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/z?s=AAPL&t=1y&q=l&l=off&z=l&p=s
Oh, wait. Maybe you just need to look at trends longer than a couple of
weeks? AAPL does not appear to be particularly overvalued at $35/share.
It was certainly very undervalued a year ago.
Just how much upside there is in the stock depends on a lot on what one
thinks of Apple's chances of maintaining its dominance in the digital
music world.
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