Is This Apple's Next Nightmare?

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2012, at 7:12 AM, jsbl143 wrote:

  I use my macbook for all of my work and business. This guy needs to get his head out of his @ss and sniff the real world. I have used both platforms for cad and spreadsheet purposes along with all the other normal business functions and prefer the Macbook. This guy still lives in the time when there was a question of what is better. I don't even think that is a question any more. I put my PC laptop on the coffee table to check email when I am watching tv because that is all its good for these days.

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Jerrygecko123 wrote:

  I think Seth knows what he is talking about.

  Amazing in his foresight, he is still at it from 2004.

  http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2004/10/07/apple-is-ro...

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2012, at 7:47 AM, rlcato wrote:

  "...it doesn't run computers that does 'real-work' but impress people at the coffee shop." Hell, as if you could do 'real-work' on those 'netbooks' at the time. Where are those 'impressive netbooks' that do 'real-work' as if they ever did? Try loading a real program on a netbook and see how far you get. Impressed them so much, look what's happening now. MBA's ran Windows in VMware or Parallel when it first came out -now that's impressive! Apple had instant 'on' for like 2003; just open the lid and you're good-to-go. Close it and it's sleep.

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2012, at 10:49 AM, SRNoyes wrote:

  Where did these "advisors" come from? Takes longer to start up? OS X has "instant on" for many many years. Can't do real work on it except look cool at the coffee shop? Seriously? Are they really serious?

  I hope the Fool.com wakes up and never invites these "advisors" back, their information is, at best, 15 years out of date.

  Wow. Just wow.

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2012, at 11:25 AM, dwilh51183 wrote:

  What you have to realize is that a lot of writers missed buying shares of AAPL because they bought rimm or dell or Csco. That frustrates them ! So they try to scare investors with stupid articles hoping they will sell their AAPL shares like yesterday's sell off , which had nothing to do w Apple, but everything to do w Google missing their quarter . These writers are trying really hard to convince aapl shareholders that the worst is yet to come, so you will SELL and then they will BUY at a much lower price ! But I know what I see , and that is exploding sales at AAPL, rising cash on balance sheet, 4 BILLION per month, ( WOW ! ) the best computers made w no virus's , and soon a dividend and stock split. This is why AAPL has been upgraded by 24 analysts this month alone. So continue buying aapl shares on Monday before crushing earnings and revenue are reported and AAPL opens at $525.00 per share. Ps: All the chanel checks by analysts from suppliers show all suppliers with record sales , so that's great news for AAPL. Even better news is most analysts are not figuring in all the sales of previously made iPhone 3's and iPhone 4's , which is why AAPL will have sold 40-45 million phones. Buy aapl stock heavily on Monday. This is an amazing company

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2012, at 1:01 PM, oriorda wrote:

  I mean, an author wouldn't [Kim Kardashian] just include material [Paris Hilton] that made no sense [Newt Gingrich] but acted as click bait [open marriage] would he? That's not the sort [Oprah Winfrey's fat] of thing a responsible [Mormons] author would do. Is it? [Neocon bubble heads].

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Davewrite wrote:

  it's so funny.

  when Apple launched the Macbook Air so many pundits said it was a 'flop' ... "it didn't have a optical drive ... you can't do real work on it ... it's a toy, a niche... etc etc ".

  NOW that the Air proved to be a rip roaring success the same morons now say the Macbook Air concept is "brilliant" and inferior macbook air clones i.e Utrabooks (years late) are the SALVATION of sinking PC sales and will destroy apple...

  lol.

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2012, at 9:11 PM, PTGuy22 wrote:

  I had a real good laugh from the link to that article in the 2nd comment. Seems like Seth should still be wearing a sign with an up arrow around his neck saying "Place egg here."

• Report this Comment On January 21, 2012, at 11:28 PM, loudeluca wrote:

  I am dumbfounded by Seth Jayson’s comments on Apple. His opinion is almost cocky enough to be insulting to those who own Apple products. It is as if he has an ax to grind. I also realize that the Fool encourages all opinions to be heard, but his comments are so outlandish, it is hard to comprehend the basis for them. The other mystifying thing is why would that two-minute segment of Apple bashing seem important enough to be a headline. Very strange.

  The other problem I have is Seth is an advisor on one of the newsletters I subscribe to…

• Report this Comment On January 22, 2012, at 6:58 AM, foolishlyfair wrote:

  I'm writing this comment from my MacBook Air. I can run both Windows and Mac OS from this machine. Tell me again why I need a machine that can do real work? The instructions next to the field where I'm entering this comment suggests that you be respectful ... I suggest that Seth try that tact... and if he can't... refer him to Fool's Rules.

• Report this Comment On January 22, 2012, at 10:14 AM, ConstableOdo wrote:

  Wintards believe that any computer, no matter how cheap or crappy it is, as long as it runs Windows, it makes it into a "real work" machine. Since Windows is chosen by corporations, that means any other OS is just some toy OS. They're going to be in for a rude awakening when corporations start turning to iDevices and get just as much "work" done as any Windows device. It's employees that get work done. Not just some Windows device. Employees will get the job done as long as they have the tools to do it, whether it be Windows OS or some other OS on the computer. Windows is a fine OS, but it isn't the perfect OS for everything.

• Report this Comment On January 22, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Radio66 wrote:

  What does someone who doesn't understand why people are buying the #1 gift item for Christmas doing on this show? How out of touch is he? Can't he be replaced by someone with a little more insight? That would make the show more interesting.

• Report this Comment On January 22, 2012, at 11:21 PM, IdiotProof101 wrote:

  If Seth can so easily dismiss all Macintosh computers as not doing any real work but looking impressive to people at the coffee shop, then he has no place analyzing Apple's position on anything. His unfounded bias is worse than any of the Apple users he ridicules. I used Windows machines as a professional engineer for 20 years during which I used Macintosh as a composer and music producer. In 2010, I switched to Macintosh for everything. Why? Stability, power, and stability. And stability. I run numerous Windows virtual machines on my Mac using VMware. When one crashes—as they inevitably do—I restore their drive container from an Apple Time Machine backup and I'm back up and running in less than five minutes. Compare that to three full weeks of lost productivity in 2009, one week to rebuild a working Windows environment each of the three times Windows trashed the MBR so no programs or configuration information could be recovered. Seth needs to either wake up from the coma he entered sometime during the 20th century or leave your program to go build Windows machines for IBM (since I doubt he's even heard about the Lenovo thing).

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