Kind of like economics.........I was over at a friend's house yesterday through this AM. There were also about ten teenagers (15 to 18) bouncing in and out. They gathered in the main room with the HDTV that had all the tits to watch some fucking horror movie. In the course of the conversation I learned this: Not a single one of them had EVER purchased a CD. All download from IPod each month and had been stealing music from Napster before Apple. Parents now give allowances of $10-$20 per month to pay for music.
So is Apple a play? Again? Is Steve Jobs cooking up another killer ap for IPod? I bet he is and I bet it will have something to do with downloading movies, shorts, MTV stuff. Just yesterday Yahoo undercut the download cost per tune from their site. Apple will follow suit and rip something new by June. Jobs is a genius, my only question regards the fate of Apple without him. He's getting up there.
5/21/2005
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[ All download from IPod each month and had been stealing music from Napster before Apple. Parents now give allowances of $10-$20 per month to pay for music. ]
Those teennies were probably foolin' you, Howie, or they are unhip young people. One can get all the music one wants for free.
They probably spend the money on other stuff Mom 'n' Dad wouldn't approve.
Try the WinMX file sharing program. Do a Google search to find it.
Why milk free cow the buy etc. ...
Furthermore, in regard to Apple hardware: Apple is performing its traditional role of making a new digital thingie fashionable and popular, but other venders will eventually outsell Apple in this category, or in the download-a-video handheld category.
There is nothing special about Apple's proprietary AAC music file format. MP3 sounds just as good or better, and MP3 has no user digital rights restrictions. iPod's longterm future: dwindling market share.
--david.davenport.1@netzero.com
Well, one of the kids is my nephew and his mom says he doesn't buy them. All of the kids download and play the music on a car CD or one in the house. I don't know why all of them and their parents would make this up. Young people are not buying CD's, or else the biggest chain record stores wouldn't be in bankruptcy or completely closed down. If you think you're right you should buy stock in one of the near zero record companies.
Howie, young fella, every once in a while I wonder about you.
Here's what I said:
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Try the WinMX file sharing program. Do a Google search to find it.
Why milk free cow the buy etc. ...
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Get it?
-- David Daveport
[ .... Jobs is a genius ... ]
Are you pimping for AAPL?
If Jobs is so smart, why is Macintosh's share of the computer market 2 %?
-- david.davenport.1@netzero.com
Today, Monday 5/23 Jobs announced: Analysts' Upgrades Send Share Prices Broadly Higher
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 24, 2005
By The Associated Press
Strength in technology stocks prompted more buying yesterday as investors welcomed analysts' upgrades and Apple Computer's reported talks to use Intel chips in its computers.
Wall Street was buoyed by the Apple report as such a change, the biggest shift in the Macintosh system's makeup since it came out in 1984, could make the machines less expensive. I just said Jobs would announce something. He did. He may announce something more. I did NOT suggest anyone buy Apple stock.
[ ... investors welcomed analysts' upgrades and Apple Computer's reported talks to use Intel chips in its computers. ... ]
It won't work for Apple. Notice where the AP piece says "... Apple Computer's reported talks to use Intel chips in ITS ( AAPL's ) computers ..."?
Apple wants Intel cpu's instead of the Motorola/IBM cpu in Apple-badged hardware boxes, and Steve the Genius wants to continue to charge a premium for boxes labeled "Apple" over the same hardware from Dell or Gateway eMachines or etc.
I don't think computer buyers are going to buy that.
Apple's only long-term hope, as people have been saying forever, is to sell the Macintosh OS and applications software bundle in versions that can be installed on existing Windows-type computers. Yes, that is technically feasible.
If Apple has any confidence in its hardware, why not let Apple Macintosh boxes compete with the Mac OS running on Dell Gateway HP Tiger Direct etc. etc.?
-- david.davenport.1@netzero.com
P.S. My prediction? The Mac OS will be made avaailable separately at some point in the future when AAPL hits a deep bottom and Steve the Genius is gone.
david.davenport.1@netzero.com
All of you are full of it, and I know for a fact you have never made a dime in the markets
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