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marv08 commented on an article. 7:10 PM

Will Microsoft Avoid Google's Big Mistake?

"Google didn't get this right with the poorly received launch of Google TV, and it's these very negotiations that have reportedly held Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) back from making its push into smart televisions."

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marv08 commented on an article. 2:04 AM

Does This Justify Google's Motorola Mobility Acquisition?

"The target date for rolling out the Moto X is this October and, like Apple and its iMacs, Moto X will be made in the USA..."

While Cook confirmed one line of computers to be made in the US, he never

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marv08 commented on an article. 10:17 PM

Can Microsoft Get It Right This Time?

"Microsoft has seen Apple's iPad Mini cannibalize full-sized iPads at a $329 price point. The cruel silver lining for Microsoft here is that there is apparently not much of a Surface RT market to eat into."

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marv08 commented on an article. 8:48 PM

Can Apple Afford to Wait?

"No one is suggesting that Apple should rush a product to market before it's ready, but even delayed iPhone releases have been buggy lately."

"The iPhone 5 was delayed until late September last

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marv08 commented on an article. 8:44 AM

Will Apple's Next iPhone Arrive Late?

iOS 7 will be announced during WWDC in June and beta versions will go to developers, so they can prepare their apps. The iPhone 5S (if that is the name) will be released with iOS 7 in September. The big iPad is still the most

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marv08 commented on an article. 9:27 PM

Is Yahoo! Courting Apple?

@DanManners and @Oldfool103

I would never waste a second of my life to support, or just relativize, any antisemitic or racist or simply grossly reactionary comments. I just failed to realize how many idiots

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marv08 commented on an article. 7:34 PM

Is Yahoo! Courting Apple?

Absolutely no idea how realistic that is, but it would certainly be the most interesting development in quite some time.

- Giving over 500 million iDevice owners (all of them highly attractive ad targets) Yahoo

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marv08 commented on an article. 6:40 PM

Will an Internet Sales Tax Kill Online Shopping?

"Implementing an online sales tax would level the playing field between online and offline retailers."

I dislike higher prices as much as the next guy. But competing with no tax and free shipping was

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marv08 commented on an article. 2:12 AM

Apple Kicks Microsoft While It's Down

"The decision is in contrast to how Apple played iTunes a decade ago. While iTunes and the iPod originally launched in 2001 with only Mac support, the decision to expand compatibility to Windows in 2003 did wonders for the iPod

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marv08 commented on an article. 9:53 PM

Another Windows Partner Bashes Microsoft's Confusing Strategy

MS's promise was "no compromise" and the same experience on all screens.

They delivered the mother of all compromises, 4 completely different Operating Systems (desktop, ARM tablets, smartphones,

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marv08 commented on an article. 6:35 PM

Will Microsoft and Google's Innovations Destroy Apple?

"Each has recently offered an answer to replace the traditional laptop PC, and each has made a major push for more cloud-based solutions."

Yeah, Apple gave these answers three years earlier. Your

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marv08 commented on an article. 6:46 PM

Apple and Google Need DISH to Win Sprint

Well, Apple has its strongest sales on big carriers with tiered data plans, almost everywhere on earth. The mass exodus from AT&T and Verizon to Sprint or T-Mobile has not happened, and Apple is strongest on the most expensive

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marv08 commented on an article. 11:40 PM

Qualcomm the Bearer of Bad News for Apple and BlackBerry

So, Apple and BB still keep smartphone margins around 40% without getting smaller, just growing slower.

Nokia, whose last quarter operating margin for the entire "Devices and Services" segment was an

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marv08 commented on an article. 10:25 PM

Apple Is Hitting a Ceiling -- and Tim Cook Knows It

While growth has, without a doubt, slowed down, there is still growth. So "hitting a ceiling" it is not quite.

Q1 was up 29% y-o-y, Q2 was up 7% y-o-y. In other words, in Q1 and Q2 combined they

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marv08 commented on an article. 7:12 PM

Apple Welcomes Chat Heads From Facebook

Bing bing bing!

Facebook has confirmed that is was neither in talks with Apple nor MS to bring this crap to their system's home screens.

So, your link-baiting crap is several days late and

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marv08 commented on an article. 7:17 PM

Will Nokia's Earnings Bounce Back This Week?

The 920 is prior-to-last-year's hardware, with not even 50% of Meego's features, the only true PureView phone runs Symbian, not Windows crap. 80% of the Windows Phone market is 80% of 2%.

So, "will Nokia's

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marv08 commented on an article. 1:54 PM

1 Lagging Smartphone Maker That Could Beat Apple

"Beat"? At what? Selling phones without making profits? Great point.

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marv08 commented on an article. 2:04 PM

Nokia and BlackBerry Don't Stand a Chance

"... Android is the platform of choice given the open-source nature of the OS that makes handsets cheap and plentiful, along with developer support that now rivals Apple's iOS."

Um, do you mean

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marv08 commented on an article. 11:38 AM

Apple's Ultimate Victory Over Microsoft

@mylowlife45:

Actually, one of MS's first profitable businesses was developing software for (and paid by) Apple. Both, Word and Excel were Mac software first. MS did not even have a graphical OS then.

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marv08 commented on an article. 10:02 PM

T-Mobile's Legere Kicks Butt. Will It Matter?

"In the end, I think, any subscriber increase for T-Mobile will have to come from quality of service coupled with price savings -- not from any contract Legere-demain."

Yes, true. But starting with

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