01-25-2013, 09:07 AM
Slamz, you are missing the point. Amazon is safe and reliable, yes, but they don't make any money. I could start a company tomorrow that would be equally reliable - it wouldn't make any money this year or next year. Even without the iPhone and iPad, Apple would be raking in FAR more profits than Amazon could ever dream of.
As for the comparison, Apple is retail as well (in fact it has the most successful retail stores in the world, twice as profitable per square foot as Tiffany), and Amazon is tech too with the various Kindles (and likely soon a phone) and its cloud business.
I think iTV will be very big, although not as big as iPhone. And "it's been coming for a year for a while" and "it was supposed to be..." are kind of moot, since Apple has never announced anything about what it will be, when it will be, or even if it will be. Just because online prognosticators keep being wrong doesn't mean a thing.
People keep saying that Apple is no longer innovative since Steve Jobs died, because they've released no game-changing product. Well...there was a gap of 6 years between the iPod and iPhone. Three years between the iPhone and iPad. It hasn't even been three years since the iPad. People are impatient. As well as the iTV, I see wearable devices like watches and maybe glasses coming as well, and probably a bunch of stuff we can't even think of.
As for the comparison, Apple is retail as well (in fact it has the most successful retail stores in the world, twice as profitable per square foot as Tiffany), and Amazon is tech too with the various Kindles (and likely soon a phone) and its cloud business.
I think iTV will be very big, although not as big as iPhone. And "it's been coming for a year for a while" and "it was supposed to be..." are kind of moot, since Apple has never announced anything about what it will be, when it will be, or even if it will be. Just because online prognosticators keep being wrong doesn't mean a thing.
People keep saying that Apple is no longer innovative since Steve Jobs died, because they've released no game-changing product. Well...there was a gap of 6 years between the iPod and iPhone. Three years between the iPhone and iPad. It hasn't even been three years since the iPad. People are impatient. As well as the iTV, I see wearable devices like watches and maybe glasses coming as well, and probably a bunch of stuff we can't even think of.
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