My God Another One Gets It!

Huh. Well. Apple is still mak­ing money hand over fist. Their “string of fail­ures” is hard to pick out of their con­tin­u­ously increas­ing mar­ket share, rev­enue, and profit. There isn’t a com­pany on the planet that wouldn’t kill for Apple’s string of fail­ures. It’s rel­a­tive. Just sayin’.

@Rip Ragged: No argu­ment from me on that.

Catastrophic suc­cess?

@ Rip Ragged

True, but what I find really grat­i­fy­ing is that they aren’t just blindly doing Scrooge McDuck can­non­balls into their mounds of money. They rec­og­nize that some of the prob­lems that man­i­fested recently could hurt them in the future.

That’s good management.

I don’t know, not being privy to the inner work­ings of the mind of Steve Jobs, but I’d be will­ing to bet all the money in my wal­let against the unen­cum­bered equity in your house that there’s a plan for all those dol­lars in the rathole.

A cush­ion against a fuck-up is a good thing to have. El Jobso bets the frig­ging house on a new tech­nol­ogy twice a year or so. A few bil­lion in the bank is a nice lit­tle insur­ance policy.

If I’m an Apple employee, it makes me feel a lit­tle more secure about buy­ing a new Prius.

I’m not privy to Steve Jobs’ grey mat­ter, the con­tent of your wal­let nor the unen­cum­bered equity in my house (my wife and my bank are really good at that stuff, thank­fully) but I totally agree with you.

It reminds me of the only inter­est­ing line to come out of the mouth of for­mer sen­a­tor Fred Thompson (as an “actor” in “The Hunt for Red October” not a “sen­a­tor”, [inten­tional scare quotes in all cases]): “Russians don’t take a dump, son, with­out a plan”. Well, no com­pany accrues that much cash in hand (and rev­enue growth and profit and div­i­dends) with­out a plan. As you said, it’s one hell of an insur­ance policy.

My point being that they aren’t just wal­low­ing back in the cur­rent green­backs but are smart enough to rec­og­nize poten­tial prob­lems in their abil­ity to keep pro­duc­ing them and are take timely action to ame­lio­rate the problems.

Toyota’s share price should do well too.

PS: I think my randomly-assigned avatar in this com­ment sys­tem is sex­ier than your ran­domly assigned avatar in this com­ment sys­tem, so there!

PS2: Your blog is quite interesting.

PS3: I don’t like con­sole platforms.

Sorry about this self-referential reply, but when I stated “my randomly-assigned avatar in this com­ment sys­tem is sex­ier than your ran­domly assigned avatar” I was refer­ring to the one that appeared in this com­ment.

Whereas the one that appeared in the com­ment above is obvi­ously of infe­rior parentage.

And ugly.

What fresh hell is this?

I have never wanted a sexy avatar. If I did, I would opt for some­thing that was not sym­met­ric, geo­met­ric, or a shaed of purple.

I don’t think Apple is com­pet­ing with Microsoft, Nokia, Dell, et. al. at all. Apple August is try­ing only to be bet­ter than Apple July. Kicking the shit out of every­body else will just hap­pen as a byproduct.

And it sure is fun to watch.

@Wrinkle_In_Time: These gen­er­ated avatars are based on your email address, the case of which you changed between com­ments; hence the dif­fer­ing avatars.

@Rip: WordPress offers two addi­tional gen­er­ated avatar options, or I could turn the gen­er­ated avatars off com­pletely. I’m not sold on them any­way. You guys tell me.

@Rip Ragged Oh yes, it sure as hell is fun to watch. @The Angry Drunk I was just being silly about the assigned avatars: please con­tinue to do what­ever the hell you like. BTW: Your cho­sen avatar looks like a Wii ver­sion of Wolverine. The smil­ing square of processed cheese that now appears for me is quite amus­ing. I never guessed WordPress would treat e-mail addresses with case sen­si­tiv­ity and I only typed it that way out of shift_key_laziness. The under­scores being a throw­back to boards with less sophis­ti­cated user­names. @The topic The “Apple is doomed” crowd are prob­a­bly just try­ing to manip­u­late the stock price à la Jim Cramer, et cretina.

sigh I fail at teh intarwebs.

@TAD

Frankly, I don’t care what ran­dom graphic appears next to my han­dle, as long as it isn’t Steve Ballmer doing some­thing unembarrassing.

The Apple is doomed crowd has many sub­sets: short sell­ers, Wintards, paid M$ shills, some Linux geeks, and IT guys who don’t get it.

It doesn’t really mat­ter. They’re all just beer cans on the road in front of the Apple steamroller.

Case in point (dum­b­ass short seller):

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