Smash your Apple devices and sell any AAPL shares you may be holding — without Steve Jobs the whole house of cards is gonna come crashing down. Well, not, and we know this because the master alchemist left loaves baking in the oven, enough for four years.
Hewlett-Packard’s webOS-based TouchPad is dead already. Motorola, even after repeated price cuts, has yet to sell its millionth Xoom. Samsung’s had some limited success in the market, but has been battered in the courtroom, while Microsoft and its partners won’t deliver an iPad competitor until next year.
And, the iPad and iPhone are leading the way. In addition to iPhone unit volume growth of 142, the company sold 183 percent more iPads, more than twice the number of Macs sold overall and more than twice the number of Macs sold into education.
Last year’s student-teacher-family educational promotion put up to a quarter pound (i.e. iPod touch precooked weight) of stuff in our hands and Apple’s 2011 come on is for a little plastic card redeemable for virtual goods — which would you rather have?
A long time coming, though the light of the oncoming train at the end of tunnel is now visible. Apple’s apparently close to pulling together all of the licenses, which neither Google nor Amazon have, it needs to launch what’s expected to be a ground breaking cloud music service.
Does the tiny, tiny touch screen iPod nano need a camera? Probably not, though the idea itself presents an interesting engineering problem and just having camera in such a small device carries with a certain level of cool — say, “cheesy snaps.”
The promise has been made many times, but 45 years after the advent of the personal computer still cabling remains a real and persistent issue. Whereas USB’s inability to daisy chain and FireWire’s licensing terms crippled their chances, a newly launched challenger could succeed where those standards failed.
The iPad classic remains unchanged since 2009 and media players in general are no longer the must have products they once were, leaving many to speculate that Apple will neglect or even leave the segment. Nevertheless, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is behind a push to revitalize the iPod line with wireless syncing and new enclosure technology.
The days and weeks after Japan’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami generated rampant speculation that the resulting factory shutdowns would hit Apple, and the iPad in particular, very hard. With the company’s second generation tablet just hitting it’s stride, a parts shortage would have been disastrous.
The sky is falling. Well, a small corner of the sky threatening to come down. That is, the analysts who after weeks of furtively throwing out headlines have uncovered a realistic scenario in which Apple might feel uncomfortable as a result of the Japan earthquake.
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