8 Reasons To Buy Apple Stock Now

Seeking Alpha ^ | March 07, 2008 | by Andy Neff

[jdm]

ping.

[Porterville]

3 reasons not to buy Mac anything:

1. Google phone
2. PC are better
3. Macs are for snobs

[the invisib1e hand]

mac ping!

[Nervous Tick]

By way of full disclosure: what’s your AAPL position?

[mtbopfuyn]

I’m partial to fujies and pink ladies.

[Paisan]

Stock Market Rule # 1:

If they’re talking about it, it’s already too late...

[BillFitz78]

Do computer viruses come free with Microsoft Windows or do I have to pay extra for them ?

[Porterville]

With the money I save on not buying anything MAC I can buy 5 licenses of the best antivirus firewall for the 5 computers bought for the price of one MAC-anything.

[CurlyDave]

3 reasons not to buy Mac anything:

1. Google phone

2. PC are better

3. Macs are for snobs

I don't know about your #1 reason, but if I substitute PC = horse and Mac = auto your statement could have been made at the dawn of the 20th century.

As a 20+ year computer user, in a high tech industry, I can tell you my experience has been PCs are better for IT departments (full employment--you must have a big staff to help the users) and a very small number of computer jocks who live & breath computers, but rarely accomplish anything else outside of the computer field.

Actually, a better automotive analogy is that a Mac is like a car with an automatic transmission and GPS. Sure, I know how to shift gears, and I can still read a paper map, but unless you have some specialized reason for wanting manual shift, a modern automatic is almost always a better choice. And, until you have used a modern GPS with spoken turn-by-turn directions, you have no idea how nice it is.

Same with computers. I can always get a job done with my PC, but it might take 4 calls to the help desk and days, not hours like on my Mac.

[jdm]

I don’t own AAPL. Just posted the article.

[Nervous Tick]

>> I can always get a job done with my PC, but it might take 4 calls to the help desk and days, not hours like on my Mac.

If “the job” involves EDA or many other engineering tasks, it will take much longer than “hours” to do on a mac.

There’s no Mac software for those jobs, and many others.

Conversely, there are very few tasks (if any...?) for which Mac software exists, but not PC.

[Swordmaker]

10 Reasons to buy Apple stock... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Leonard210]

3. Macs are for snobs

What a snobbish thing to say! With Macs representing only .00001 per cent of the computing world, can you in all honesty believe that, outside of that tiny, tiny fraction of all the computer users in the world, Windows users would not be massively represented amongst the elitist snobs that you seem to daily encounter?

[SunkenCiv]

CY08 target of $220

Good reason to buy Apple stock and walk the three miles to work to save gas. Y'know, since I'm trying to get down to two tanks a month (currently I run a tank in 10 or 11 days, or about $120 a month). Can't take a bus to work to save money, because buses here aren't running when I get off work at midnight. Still, might be nice to plough all available cash into Apple stock in order to dump it into the next bubble.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

With the money I save on not buying anything MAC I can buy 5 licenses of the best antivirus firewall for the 5 computers bought for the price of one MAC-anything.

And still have money left over to see if you can get the integrated software that the mac comes with...throw in another 80, and you can move your whole PC over to the mac...also run linux at the same time as OS X & windows.

[Mr. Jeeves]

· MAINTAINING TARGET. Given these multiple catalysts, we're maintaining our CY08 target of $220 using a 29x P/E on CY09 op. EPS plus $24/sh in net cash.

LOL! Nothing at all wrong with the company, but given market conditions AAPL will hit $40 before it ever sees $220.

Keep your powder dry. It isn't nearly time yet.

[coon2000]

What licenses? Name the product and the cost. Then name the windows computer and the cost. I will bet you that you will not even be close to your claim.

[grey_whiskers]

With the money I save on not buying anything MAC I can buy 5 licenses of the best antivirus firewall for the 5 computers bought for the price of one MAC-anything.

And the MAC will still outperform all five together.

Seriously, I just bought an iMac for $1800. Where do you find these $360 PC's which you speak so highly of?

Cheers!

[Sunnyflorida]

Normally I agree with your Rule #1, but not this time.