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To: Cogito who wrote (133625)	5/15/2012 3:57:38 PM
From: clean86	3 Recommendations of 154132

There is also no cloud storage system that is immune to outages I'll take it even 1 step further and say there is no computer system anywhere that is immune to outages. Even the best server storage farms and web hosting service have outages. Routers break, power outages occur and using a free service to post mission critical data is silly at best. I was in a marketing seminar one time where an end user was screaming at Adobe because the person had lost a Million dollar job because they had used an early beta version on InDesign to build the promo for the product they were trying to sell. They blamed Adobe for the loss rather than taking responsibility for their own really bad choice. Guess you get what you pay for and the free lunch is often very expensive.

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To: almaxel who wrote (133626)	5/15/2012 4:12:06 PM
From: Doren	of 154132

Its interesting just how clueless these guys are. #2 Edward Lampert, Sears Holdings - WTF? One used to walk in and buy Craftsman tools, and be assured that while they were not THE best they were damn good. One didn't even shop around. You just went to Sears for all your tools. Why did they think becoming K-Mart was a good idea? Now we spend hours trying to figure out which rechargeable drill to buy. Don't they know about Apple? When I go in there now to buy a socket, the place is a ghost town. EVERY time I open the case for the last socket set I bought from them, half my tools fall out. So I have to laboriously re-situate them to close the damn thing. I bet Edward has never held a socket wrench in his hand ever. I don't want to shop for tools. I'll pay the extra $20 or even $100 rather than lose hundreds of man screwing with it over the life of the tool. I just hope Apple doesn't forget who they are and why they are rich. #3 – Mike Duke, WalMart - Amazon - Lady Gaga - Born This Way $11.49 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25 Walmart - Lady Gaga - Born This Way $14.44 Free shipping to store ??? which would you buy... assuming you liked Lady Gaga... What, Mike doesn't have a computer? ... or maybe he just never shops... orders one of his flunkies to shop for him. Walmart could easily take 1/3 of Amazons business overnight if they wanted. Instead they let Amazon take their business. It reminds me of Tower Records. Executives just completely out of touch with their former customers. They never did get into the used business despite being very computer oriented. All they had to do was go online and see a perfect used CD was going for 1/2 the price of a new CD. That's it. Just do what your customers are doing.

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To: Kelly G. who wrote (133633)	5/15/2012 4:18:02 PM
From: Doren	of 154132

> So, say they don't have any new content My thoughts exactly. I'm not convinced content is the problem. The proliferation of peripherals and the complexity of home music/video systems seems to be Apple's crux. As I'm thinking about it, for them to solve the problem for me what they'd need to sell is a central wifi server, with jacks to all my legacy equipment. I still have a VHS machine for some of my rare stuff or home made stuff or some kind of simple system to convert all of it. That just doesn't seem practical. Otherwise, what is stopping anyone from downloading content over the net from multiple sources? We are swimming in content. Controlling that I guess may be their crux.

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To: Kelly G. who wrote (133633)	5/15/2012 4:20:31 PM
From: Road Walker	of 154132

I'm in the content business, but physical media. I think they will have some studios/distributors come along. Disney is one good guess. But honest, I plead ignorance. I have no idea how they make this work. Do they have a strategy that will do what iTunes did to/for music? Is that possible in visual media? In order to revolutionize things I think they have to "buy direct" from the studios. And the whole business is not very progressive, with lots of entrenched interests with a finger in the pie. For a while the studios were talking about same day theatrical and VOD release for $50. I thought "are they crazy, $50!". But then I talked to a friend with 3 kids and he said "that would be terrific. You know what it costs me to take the family to a first run movie?!?". So... what do I know? I've got more questions than answers.

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To: Road Walker who wrote (133641)	5/15/2012 5:59:00 PM
From: Kelly G.	of 154132

Survey says: In exploring that dichotomy, Strategy Analytics discovered that 35% of U.S consumers said that they would be willing to pay $1,000 or more for an Apple HDTV. Interest began to drop off sharply, however, as the price climbed beyond that. Only 14% said that they’d be willing to pay any more than $1,600. Analyst: Nearly Half Of All iPhone Owners Would Buy An Apple HDTV \| Cult of Mac So, you can get a 50 inch HDTV in the $400 - $700 range. I expect many consumers will be willing to pay a premium to get the Apple HDTV with whatever bells and whistles it has. So, considering there are an estimated 150 million + iPhone users out there. Say Apple was at or above the $1600 price target and 14% of iPhone users bought the Apple HDTV that would be 21 million sets. That would be over $33 billion in revenue. Considering only a 30% margin, that would be $10 billion in profit. I am sure my numbers are fuzzy. Anyone, please interject at your leisure.

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