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Feb 15, 08 - 02:13 pm Comment from: Rich Apple person

All Apple needs to do to keep the stock hot is do what they do best and that is release innovative products and OS's that people want. Remember Wall Streets motto is "instant gratification takes too long" and they are not interested in where Apple is going in the next two years as much as the next two months. I'll take Apple over MS anytime and laugh when the stock gets back to $200+

Funny bloke or what.

I think the 'kill TV' comment will come back to haunt him.

MDN I think it's 'Enderlean' with a capitla "E". Not trying to be a spelling nazi, just think it deserves capitalization to emphasize the stupidity.

Feb 15, 08 - 02:21 pm Comment from: DRM sucks

"The company could make one more gesture, It could kill its only really failed product line, Apple TV. That would show the market that the company is willing to admit its mistake."

...and kill HD movie rentals. Thanks.

Go ahead, MDN, keep trashing anything other than praise for His Majesty.

If Apple keeps doing what it is doing that has caused the company's stock price to collapse, why would we think the price will soar again if they keep doing what they've been doing?

Staying the course is not working. It never does when the fate of the company depends on products with very short shelf life.

Feb 15, 08 - 02:26 pm Comment from: HMCIV

McIntyre was always the kid in the car asking "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? How about now?".

The difference today is he's in the back of a cubicle, not the back of a car!

Feb 15, 08 - 02:26 pm Comment from: Cubert

I'll have what he's smoking.

@Keep it Up:

I agree with you that it is unnecessary for MDN to bash every Mac critic. I appreciate that MDN is mac-centric, but I don't think they need to be such homers.

On the other hand, I disagree with you concerning your comments that Apple is responsible for the fall in their stock. If you honestly think that short term stock fluctuations have any basis in logic, then you have not followed the stock market for very long. Any objective observer knows that Apple is doing very well and asking Apple to shift their strategy in order to pander to short term irrational market whims is a recipe for disaster. The best way for Apple to revive their stock is to continue to pursue the successful strategy that has made them one of the greatest corporate success stories over the past 10 years.

Feb 15, 08 - 02:33 pm Comment from: ericdano

The New AppleTV software is great. And youtube on it? Awesome. Podcasts. What is there not to like?

There will be no "3g iPhone", there will be "WiMax iPhone"

"Investors are forced to rely on experts to interpret data from resellers and suppliers to try to get at numbers which Apple could readily release. If several research firms are right and Mac sales are well ahead of expectations a release of January Mac sales would go a long way to calm shareholder fears."

I think he's talking about the short-term shareholders here, which kinda destroys his argument. Stable stockholders are what we want, and not having daily figures is a good way to help put off the other kind, who are worthless and contribute nothing to the company.

Feb 15, 08 - 03:01 pm Comment from: ken1w

Soon, Apple TV will be as important to Apple as iPhone and iPod put together.

Last night, we rented our third movie from iTunes. I switched the AppleTV setting to 1080p and the color space to RGB from Auto (it's a Sony Bravia) and the movie quality was unbelievable. We haven't rented any movies in HD yet. Any recommendations?

I wrote an email to McIntyre last night, rebutting each and every one of his nonsensical points. He won't respond, because I know he's a hit-whore. He doesn't know a thing about Apple, otherwise he'd know Apple has an unlimited data plan for the iPhone. He didn't listen to the conference call, otherwise he wouldn't have said all the dumb things about the recession's effect or Apple's gross margins, which were all addressed by Oppenheimer.

I've been reading this guy's nonsense for a while, and he's all about hits and trying to get his website enough advertising dollars so he can sell it to someone. He doesn't know even as much as CNBC's Jim Goldman, which isn't saying much.

Almost everything he says about Apple is either factually wrong, or just jumping on the bandwagon.

I would love to see AppleTV gain the two things listed below, but I think that is a pipe-dream that will never happen. I could see a premium version of AppleTV with these two things added in a form factor that would fit in my stereo cabinet and believe it is only slightly less of a pipe-dream.

DVR functionality...

BlueRay drive

Meanwhile Apple stock is down $3-plus.....

Feb 15, 08 - 03:58 pm Comment from: Demon

I was talking with some of our sales guys (hard core Windows fanboys) 6 of them have Apple TVs and all of them raved about the new software. And there is one feature we all agreed that Apple needed to fix. The Apple TV needs to have the ability to play and shuffle your Music Video Library the way it does audio tracks. This is the only thing that Apple did not get right with the Take 2 update. Front row on my Mac will play music videos sequential (but not shuffle them) but the Apple TV will only play them one at a time. It's the only thing Apple still needs on their high priority fix list for the Apple TV.

This guy is dumb.

Possibly well-intentioned, but sad and pathetic. The market has a way of correcting itself over time. Apple has a long history of being at odds with Wall Street. It does things its own way, and doesn't try to be the Street's darling by announcing road maps, and financial data any more often than it needs to for purposes of legal compliance. Apple's more like a ship in the night, arriving at daylight with new goodies on board that noone ever expected. That's its beauty, that's the mystique. It's not Dell, HP or Microsoft.

RE: This is from McIntyre's blog dated July 21, 2007

"A Crazy Forecast For Apple (AAPL): Piper Jaffray has raised its price target for Apple (AAPL) from $160 to $205. ... "

McIntyre was severely critical that Apple stock was forcasted to reach $200 and was wrong. The stock did trade as high as $203 this past December.

Now, he expects Apple to take HIS recommendations! Absurd!

Thanks for the positive feedbank

Doug McIntyre

Thanks for your positive mac articles.

-Not Doug

@ OldMacFan

I keep on thinking the same thing, but then I remember that they make that already (almost, minus the BluRay drive). It's called the Mac Mini.

Check it:

http://www.transcendentsound.com/make_your_own_high_definition_di.htm

I'd like the ATV to be in a yummier enclosure -- it's a bit neutral at the moment and about as interesting as an external HD.

When the vice president of the ipod division starts cashing in his options (last week over $2 million) then we know the stock is kaput and the company is floundering.

Oxford Dictionary definition: "Douglas McIntyre" /tɔs, tɒs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[dug-less, mac-and-tire] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, verb, mac-and-tire or (Literary) tired-of-trying-to-understand-mac; hard-to-dig; noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to groan on without knowledge, bitch, or waffle, esp. to think out loud about something before stopping to understand it.
2. to to ignore all logic or forethought in favor of populist journalistic diatribe.
3. to jerk about: Steve Jobs is bad at shareholder gratification.
4. to agitate, disturb, or disquiet in the hope of getting one's own way despite abject stupidity on one's own behalf.