Wall Street yawns at disappointing Apple results/announcements

Fast on the heels of the announcement that RIM has seized over half of the
US smartphone market (and Apple and Palm lost share) comes today's yawner
of an announcement ("Let's Rock) from Apple.

Besides modest price reductions on the iPod Touch Apple announced a
thinner Nano that, like the iPod Touch, changes screen orientation
depending upon how the user holds the device, and will shuffle the
playlist if the user shakes it.

Apple stock dropped 3% today as investors signaled their disappointment
that Apple has not done more to shore up iPod, which faltered last
Christmas with nearly flat sales.

Apple's failure to produce a fresh line of iPods for this Christmas
shopping season is the beginning of the end for iPod.

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

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Mark Crispin <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Apple stock dropped 3% today as investors signaled their disappointment
> that Apple has not done more to shore up iPod, which faltered last
> Christmas with nearly flat sales.
>
>

Oops...report premature. AAPL dropped 4% today......

Obviously it was already thin enough before the announcement.

On Sep 9, 5:12*pm, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Notice how the big drop in today's price coincides with seeing Steve
> Jobs' thin, drawn face on the one-eyed monsters. *The baggy pants and
> bulky sweaters are unsuccessful at covering up the truth about his
> diminishing weight.
>

Larry I am convinced in reality you know nothing of stocks and the
stock market so I am not even going to go there.

But I would like to touch on your description of Steve and his attire.
Doesn't he sort of remind you of a scene out of Star Wars in that
shirt? I think he looks a little like one of Darth Vader's buddies,
Emperor, what is his name?
Darth ended up strangling him.

Sort of what the Overlord of Verizon would like to do to Steve.

Maybe here is a subliminal there somewhere?

4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:a6646f14-f9c0-4f93-b1ee-
[email protected]:

> On Sep 9, 5:12*pm, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Notice how the big drop in today's price coincides with seeing Steve
>> Jobs' thin, drawn face on the one-eyed monsters. *The baggy pants and
>> bulky sweaters are unsuccessful at covering up the truth about his
>> diminishing weight.
>>
>
> Larry I am convinced in reality you know nothing of stocks and the
> stock market so I am not even going to go there.
>
> But I would like to touch on your description of Steve and his attire.
> Doesn't he sort of remind you of a scene out of Star Wars in that
> shirt? I think he looks a little like one of Darth Vader's buddies,
> Emperor, what is his name?
> Darth ended up strangling him.
>
> Sort of what the Overlord of Verizon would like to do to Steve.
>
> Maybe here is a subliminal there somewhere?
>
>
>
>
>
>

Wall Street thinks he looks like a sick man.

What you or I think is of no consequence.

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:52:47 -0700, Mark Crispin
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Fast on the heels of the announcement that RIM has seized over half of the
>US smartphone market (and Apple and Palm lost share) comes today's yawner
>of an announcement ("Let's Rock) from Apple.
>
>Besides modest price reductions on the iPod Touch Apple announced a
>thinner Nano that, like the iPod Touch, changes screen orientation
>depending upon how the user holds the device, and will shuffle the
>playlist if the user shakes it.
>
>Apple stock dropped 3% today as investors signaled their disappointment
>that Apple has not done more to shore up iPod, which faltered last
>Christmas with nearly flat sales.
>
>Apple's failure to produce a fresh line of iPods for this Christmas
>shopping season is the beginning of the end for iPod.
>
>-- Mark --


Haven;'t you learned yet a basic tenenant.

Buy the rumor, sell the fact.

A a totally new iPod Nano IS a fresh line.

In article <[email protected]>, Mark
Crispin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Apple stock dropped 3% today as investors signaled their disappointment
> that Apple has not done more to shore up iPod, which faltered last
> Christmas with nearly flat sales.

nonsense. apple sold more ipods in the december 2007 quarter than any
previous quarter in the product's history, even with the iphone having
an impact on ipod sales.

> Apple's failure to produce a fresh line of iPods for this Christmas
> shopping season is the beginning of the end for iPod.

they just did, and apple is poised to have another record quarter of
ipod sales.