apple great desing

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btw - what the heck does that mean?

Shi'ite?

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Say what you like, those Apple shares I bought around the turn of the century for $20 are making me consider my retirement plans....

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Good luck retiring with C= stock...

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My iPhone has likely begun it's journey out of China sunday.  This is exciting!

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Good luck young lads, the fate of the economy of the Free World depends on you!

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/384985/20120917/apple-iphone-5-pre-orders-shipping-china.htm

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You know what, I was a Microsoft Hater in the '80s.  I wouldn't buy a PC, I wouldn't touch M$ stock even though I knew they'd win and be dominant.  Had I not hated M$ with a passion I would have bought a ton of M$ stock and would have retired a decade ago.  Hater's lose, I lost because I was a hater....

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@TheDaddy

Yet there are some on this board that will plunk down £1,700 on a desktop that isn't as powerful as the £500 phone.  People will buy what they want to buy.  You don't like iPhones, don't buy iPhones, personally I don't have time for the hate, but whatever floats your boat.

Computers in a keyboard were an idea who's time has come and gone, if you think you can hawk them with a turtleneck, by all means try.  But I won't be queuing for one anytime soon.  

Yes, part of the appeal of Apple is Apple itself, but, even they couldn't sell a keyboard computer in 2013...  There's an element of timeliness in all of Apple's products.  An iPhone 5 in 2023 won't even merit a "meh," but by then they'll be on to something else anyway.

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Plus, Windows Phone 8 is securely locked down like iOS.

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Yep, it's virtually impossible to buy a bit of tech gear that doesn't have some foxconn connection.

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Yeah, Apple's doing so badly, the largest market cap of any company in history, people queuing 24+ hours for a new product, accolades in most every tech journal on the planet.  Yep, a sinking ship for sure.  

Seriously there are companies with far less scruples such as Walmart or BAIN or the Koch brothers business.  Why the hate for Apple?

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It will be interesting to see what Windows 8 brings to the post pc world.

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There seems to be a fair bit of mis-understanding about the post pc world and I'll admit Steve jobs was a part of the misunderstanding.  

It doesn't mean that the desktop or notebook will go away, it simply means that front and centre will be taken by another device, the tablet.  Before the post pc world we were in a post mainframe world, but there were and still are a large number of mainframes and likely will be for decades to come.

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Yeah, I've been playing with new iPhone 5 and while arguably it's as good as anything on the market, it isn't a leap above anything out there.  If next years 5s or whatever is the same incremental improvement, Apple will find itself playing catch up.

The lack of NFC, for example, is inexcusable.  NFC is coming and Apple has lost it's opportunity to lead that revolution.  That will be Samsung.

Steve Job's vision drove Apple, and right now they are running on momentum.  Tim Cook is just not a visionary.  Apple is in line to become another Microsoft, a once brilliant star reduced to a white dwarf.  

I hope that doesn't happen, but for the first time in years I can't say with any certainty what brand my next phone will be....