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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Sorry if I offend anyone, but if Apple didn’t have a cult following they would be hurting.


2 posted on 01/06/2017 6:17:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

You’re not offending me but you may get some hate mail.

Win10 is poised to be a Universal OS in the next few years. IOS and chili macOS(formerly known as OSX) will be splintered through eternity.

I just saw Dell unveiled their new XPS 15. That keeps them a year ahead of Apple but the gap is far more than that. Apple engineering has collapsed. Logistics doesn’t substitute for Engineering.

Engineering gave Apple their swagger, now Apple is like Al Capone sitting on the dock suffering from syphilis.


7 posted on 01/06/2017 6:33:21 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: 1Old Pro

What a joke.

SEC filings reveal that Apple CEO Tim Cook has sold a little over 600,000 of his AAPL shares over the past couple of weeks, netting him approximately $65M. He continues to hold more than a million shares worth some $110M.


16 posted on 01/06/2017 7:07:53 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: 1Old Pro

“Sorry if I offend anyone, but if Apple didn’t have a cult following they would be hurting.”

Nonsense. There is no comparable tech company. Apple is the last company standing with a workstation oriented Unix for one thing...hence the huge uptake of Macs among developers. Plus, its approach of making technology as easily accessed as possible has inexplicably not been duplicated by any other company.

Here’s some fuel for the fire from the inventor of the x86 PC:

http://www.cio.com/article/3133945/hardware/ibm-says-macs-save-up-to-543-per-user.html

Apple’s market cap is still over $100 billion ahead of Google and Microsoft...


22 posted on 01/06/2017 7:42:21 AM PST by PreciousLiberty (Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: 1Old Pro

Actually, in the 90s having a cult saved Apple from extinction. Apple was releasing new models of crap and people were buying them. When I mean crap, they were inferior pieces of hardware and software. But, these people kept Apple afloat - though barely. They were close to going under/being acquired.


53 posted on 01/09/2017 8:42:25 AM PST by ConsCA
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