Comments on: Apple’s stock drops to a new low

By: Christian Haarala Björnberg

Christian Haarala Björnberg — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:36:00 +0000

What is it that I’m missing?! They talk about “all-time low” at $430 yet in the figure the lowest point is around $320-325…?!?!

By: VedX

VedX — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:23:00 +0000

Apple should use it’s cash horde to buy back stocks so that it will have less pressure from these investors who are out to make a quick buck and care nothing about long term direction.

By: unknownvalue

unknownvalue — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:49:00 +0000

SHUT THE FAK UP!

By: unknownvalue

unknownvalue — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:48:00 +0000

Just like you, and me… Aww… Yay!

By: Themask007

Themask007 — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:37:00 +0000

Well Said. Even though, I don’t use iphone anymore. I agree OS being closed.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:25:00 +0000

What a boring life you lead.

By: AmiRami

AmiRami — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:00:00 +0000

pretty sure he was being sarcastic

By: AmiRami

AmiRami — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:59:00 +0000

I hear what you are saying and I respect it. People should not love or hate companies, they should evaluate every product based on that products value. But here’s the thing. Apple is the one company I don’t mind hating because they deserve it. They are the definition of absolute power corrupting absolutely. They are everything that is wrong with tech today. They tell you what you need instead of asking you. I need flash. I need an accessible file system. I need to be able to run more than one app at once. Everyone HATED Microsoft in the 90′s and 2000′s because of their monopoly. The EU sues Microsoft for only including IE on Windows, but MS never charges Google or Apple or Mozilla for the “right” to put a different browser on their OS. Apple does. They freely allow iCloud on their devices but charge 30% for dropbox or skydrive to be able to do the same. And no one stops them. They become crazy successful on the backs of idiots that don’t know how to use real computers and get companies that make real computers to change and be like them because of their success. They sue instead of innovate because they are so righteous that think they own the rights to rectangles with rounded corners and no one else can have it. And in so doing, they have innovated a new era of patent trolls. YOu can’t “own” a type of store you can’t “own” a rectangle. But Apple does, because, hey, they’re Apple so its ok right? WRONG! They are hypocrites. EVERYTHING they used to blame Microsoft for in the past they are now guilty of themselves, and to such a higher degree than MS EVER was. Before apple, we were concerned with making powerful systems thinner and lighter and more accessible. Now thanks to the douchebag iPad, we are only interested in making lightweight systems like the iPhone bigger and heaver like the iPad. We used to be able to buy software and sell it when we are done. No longer. Thanks to the douchebag app store we can buy apps and then never resell them. And thanks to that douchebag’s success, XBOX and PS4 are following in suit, as are all systems. Apple’s success has shown the entire industry that you can be come crazy successful from taking away choice from the consumer. Apple is everything that is wrong with corporations and they need to fail for the sake of the consumer.Subject: [slashgeardotcom] Re: Apple’s stock drops to a new low

By: s2weden2000

s2weden2000 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:22:00 +0000

then you should have waited…LOL …you buy when they are “cheaper” like the ajiphoney “chEap”

By: pepee63

pepee63 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:49:00 +0000

But they keep losing

By: pepee63

pepee63 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:46:00 +0000

Apple shares are now 430. If I bought when you suggested, I would be down 13 dollars per share. You should be a stock broker

By: pepee63

pepee63 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:38:00 +0000

Apple shares are down to $430 today. Let me just say, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. By the way, no wonder Cooks hasn’t done stuff all about it, he’s made almost a billion dollars from apple and his wage has just gone up again. Sounds like he is just screwing as much money as he can out of Apple before it all comes crashing down. Good on you Cook’s, love your work.

By: Eleeflyguy43

Eleeflyguy43 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:42:00 +0000

Why not hate a rival NfL team or world hunger? Has Apple taken food from your family or forced you into embarrassing situations? I just but products I like and avoid ones that I don’t like. I respect Apple, but don’t hate them for being a large company. If you don’t respect the fact that their iPhone is relatively “”boring”" compared to new Android phones, then don’t buy it. If you are annoyed that Apple consumers stay loyal to Apple, then picket your local Apple store during an iPhone launch. Business practices- litigation and supply chain management – meh- all companies do this. They don’t run drugs or support terrorism.
Me, I fight the urge to conform to hating big companies because it is fashionable to do so online. so petty. There are more serious issues in the world that deserve more attention.

Apple didn’t deserve to have its stock value skyrocket to $700+ to begin with. The current value makes sense. They are still leaders tablets, which is growing at a faster pace than PCs, but at the same time, investor emotions have cooled to realizing that Apple is fighting a battle across all fronts and are in danger of not having distribution and price points to fill DEMND that Android manufacturers are able to.

By: simpl3lang

simpl3lang — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:29:00 +0000

they need to sue more companies he he

By: Marwan

Marwan — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:24:00 +0000

Steve Jobs: What have you done Tim.

By: zeth006

zeth006 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:21:00 +0000

Yes, because we know with 100% certainty that it can only go down from here, right?

You do realize that stock prices tend to be cyclical?

By: A.Noid

A.Noid — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 06:17:00 +0000

its going to take way more than apple has to overtake MS in the desktop even with as big a screw up as Windows 8. from what I hear, there is an update coming out for Windows 8 that will make it more desktop friendly.

By: pepee63

pepee63 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:12:00 +0000

Yeah right, buy Apple stocks now and watch how quick you start losing money

By: pepee63

pepee63 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:08:00 +0000

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha. That’ll do. I’ll save some laughs when it gets down lower than 400. Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa !

By: s2weden2000

s2weden2000 — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:08:00 +0000

even blackerry does different looking phones in different sizes…

By: Sport

Sport — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:20:00 +0000

Cough*. . . Blackberry. . . *cough

By: milton sanchez

milton sanchez — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:39:00 +0000

I’m going to join in the conversation. First, I don’t like apple but I don’t want
them to disappear I just want them to innovate. What got me to
dislike apple in the first place was their constant and ridiculous law suits of
any competition even attacking “mom and pop” stores for having the name apple, when they should have been focusing on future innovation instead. I think they wasted almost a year and a half in law suits allowing other companies to catch up and to even pass them in R&D. I like the fact they are an American company and I hope they learned a
lesson and actually join the rest of the tech world in innovation instead of
trying to hold it back technology.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:03:00 +0000

People do want something new, and are finally willing to go elsewhere if Apple doesn’t provide it. A year ago I saw iPhones and only iPhones wherever I went. Now that has changed.

Great-looking/feeling hardware can only go so far. Teens are starting to wonder if they really want to use devices that “everybody, including their grandma” is using. Apple products are starting to lose their ‘cool factor’ and become just ‘common.’ People are finally starting to see beyond the shiny aluminum. Buying the latest Apple product used to be a no-brainer, but that’s no longer the case. This is great to see because it will force Apple to get back to the drawing board and (hopefully) produce and release something that actually is revolutionary.

More and more people are starting to trust other brands, which is the worst news possible for Apple.

By: imaginarynumber

imaginarynumber — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:49:00 +0000

Erm.. I dunno, apple are IMO going to fall back to where they should be. ie a firm that makes decent products but not revolutionary ones. They have had their time in the media sun and have now faded, It happens

Without something radical they will be remembered as the firm that gave us what we already had but sold it to us in a way that made us want it. And kudos to them for doing so BUT they have corrupted many aspects of the IT world and thus deserved to be pilloried accordingly.

By: Luke of SF

Luke of SF — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:40:00 +0000

Releasing the iPad mini was a stupid idea because they cannibalize the sales of the iPad, Apple’s current premier product. Furthermore, the mini is so inferior with specs and a lack of the Retina display, yet Apple is charging more than 1/3 of its competitor! This is mismanagement, corporate greed and pomposity to that utmost gall!

By: zeth006

zeth006 — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:33:00 +0000

I wouldn’t say it’s over for Apple quite yet. If anything, this good news for prospective investors. It might be a good time to buy.

By: zeth006

zeth006 — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:30:00 +0000

>Things are just fine.
>I remember when Apple’s stock was $13 in the 1990s.

It was that very attitude that almost caused Apple to become bankrupt and to become dependent on Gates bailing them out.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:19:00 +0000

Samsunghas more cash at hand then Apple. Fact. Really? because Samsung is killing Apple right now when it comes to phones. Microsoft isn’t Apple’s biggest competitor anymore.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:15:00 +0000

Tim Cook’s super products to come better be spectacular…..something like….The I pouryourbeer and the Iwipeyour%%% gizmo, running on thin air and a free operating system……Oh yeah,. That won’t work, normal people can already do that. Don’t despair Apple shareholders, I’m sure Apple cult weenies will stand in line to pay outrageous prices in order to think that they are hip, groovy, and one with the universe . L.M.F.A.O.!!!!!!

By: Aidan Cheddar

Aidan Cheddar — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:11:00 +0000

So far their “top notch” products have not stopped their stock from plunging.

By: s2weden2000

s2weden2000 — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:43:00 +0000

that´s right!
what do you expect when you are selling the same device for 5 years …remember Ericsson? they did the same with their gh337 (smallest phone back then..very popular) back in -95 and sold it as 218-310-318-320-388-a2619-r250s pro-a1018s-628-688-888-868 and a couple more…all looked the same ..and what happened after that is history…

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:32:00 +0000

I’m guessing their ‘new’ products will be lighter and thinner versions of their existing products, with ‘retina’ displays on the ones that don’t already have them. They used to lead…

By: AmiRami

AmiRami — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:22:00 +0000

wow, none of this is true. First of all their “popular” products may be in fact popular but they are losing more and more of that popularity everyday. The iDevice doesn’t have the cool factor it once did. Microsoft is Apple’s biggest competitor against the MAC but MAC is not Apple’s golden boy, the iPad is. That makes Samsung, Google, and Amazon Apple’s biggest competitor. And As far as I can tell, the GSIII, Galaxy note, Nexus 7, etc are doing just fine and dwindling Apple’s numbers every single day.

Their products may be very high quality in hardware but their software leaves MUCH to be desired. iOS was crazy impressive when it first came out but today it looks dull and boring and lifeless compared to Android and Windows. What Apple needs is to bring back the true innovation and FAST because the “things are just fine” mentality is what is leading to these falling stocks in the first place.

Oh and by the way, Windows 8 has plenty of haters, just like windows has always had. But I wouldn’t call sales records as high as windows 7 a “strike out” We should all be so lucky to strike out that way.

By: AmiRami

AmiRami — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:14:00 +0000

This is probably wrong but this news brought a huge smile to my face. HATE Apple!

By: Michael Barrett Dixon

Michael Barrett Dixon — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:10:00 +0000

Stop with the death knell already. Apple has a ton of cash, popular products, and their primary competition in the computer OS space, Microsoft, has struck out with their new OS and their phone isn’t doing that hot either. If Apple can keep product quality at top-notch, consider lowering their margins on a few items, and release more than minor updates to products (and skip the press events for a while), things will be fine. I remember when Apple’s stock was $13 in the 1990s. Things are just fine.

By: Shamu

Shamu — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:58:00 +0000

Yay!