Apple has been incredibly successful over the last decade, but yet there are people out there that always think they know better.
Jason Perlow for ZDNet talking about what Apple must do:
If we have learned anything at all from the company’s most recent 3rd quarter sales figures, we must ultimately recognize that Apple’s revenue is highly based on an annuity or semi-annuity model of repeat customers. Repeat customers are bread and butter, but it does not create growth.
Clearly Apple has not grown at all over the last 10 years. They don’t rule the smartphone market, iTunes doesn’t sell any songs or movies, and the App Store is sure to fail any day now.
This is just ridiculous. What we learned is that the news cycle was able to convince people that a new iPhone was coming in June, July, August and September — but it didn’t come until October. Apple’s quarterly sales have been solid for years, and that’s in all product categories.
Sometimes it’s hard to even find an iPhone or iPad.
Post-Jobs, Apple must exist in a world of constantly improving commodity technology being created by its competitors and enterprises seeking next generation, integrated mobile and desktop solutions that the company is not currently offering: Products which are arguably more open and can more easily attract the partners needed to create solutions.
Why would they need to do that? Apple can continue making the products it does and innovate the markets it enters without lowering itself to making the crappy products its competitors do.
All you need is an infinite number of link-bait monkeys and you too can write crap like that. LOL
Apple stock in under-valued. Should be at least 1,000 a pop.
The reason Apple is so profitable is because they don’t stoop to the low-margin levels of their competitors. It’s the reason why there never was an Apple netbook, and I don’t foresee Apple getting into that type of competition anytime soon. For the competition it’s a race to the bottom, and the reason Apple is so successful is because they never signed up to join in the hurt.
The day I see Apple selling “constantly improving commodity technology” is the day I sell my Apple stock because that day I will know they’ve lost what makes them successful.
“Products which are arguably more open and can more easily attract the partners needed to create solutions.” Have you ever heard more screamingly hollow corporate buzzword bullshit? There are plenty of partners getting rich off of creating solutions based on Apple products with the exact amount of openness available today.
Wait. Apple doesn’t have an integrated mobile/desktop solution? Huh?
“Post-Jobs, Apple must exist in a world of constantly improving commodity
technology being created by its competitors and enterprises seeking
next generation”
Yeah, just like it did before Jobs passed-away, and has for over 2 decades. What’s his point?
Perlow is a doooooooooouchebag!
Hear, hear, Jim. I’m sick of know-it-all keyboard critics who think they can run the world’s most valuable company better than the people who actually work there can.
Jim, you are spot on, this guy is an idiot and probably will and cannot do a good marketing to save his own life.
Truly sad to hear this kind of advice from a person who is a blogger, a wordsmith and nothing else.
I like how any idiot who has never run a multibillion dollar company can just tell them what to do. Then the media just takes off and spread the stupidity as if this guy really knows what he’s talking about. Cool. I want his job. I can be as stupid as the next guy on ZDNET.
It’s hard for a company shares to be worth $1000 when investors are barely willing to pay $400 a share. ISRG shares are around $435 and Google’s shares at $400. No problem for them. Investors buy them in bunches. Apple, not really. Apple’s already broken $400 three times and collapsed below each time. Sorry, but investors just aren’t motivated by Apple and clearly don’t have your faith. Apple is about as far away from $1000 as it is from the moon.
Don’t flame me as I’m just pointing out an obvious fact.
Astounding…..
“without lowering itself to making the crappy products its competitors do”
You shouldn’t post stuff like this unless you point out to everyone all the known problems with products like the MacBook Pro 2010’s with the motherboard and display problems. Just a brutally bad product. And all the iPhone 4 people that are now totally screwed since the iOS5 update
They are just as bad in many ways as all the other terrible manufacturers. But people like you keep spreading the Gospel. either you aren’t doing your research, or more likley, you don’t care about the reality because it would hurt your cause.
Not flaming you but just correcting some of your info.
Google is at $600 a share now. It has bb
Een over$400 for few years and was at that level prior to that timeframe.
IRSG just made it over $400 for the first recently.
AAPL has closed at $422 and has been as high as $426 during a session. Sure it has dipped below $400 since then even droping a bit moe to the$370ish level but it’s back again over $400 now. While I don’t have a lot of faith in analysts forecasts the vast majority of them say Apple is going to at least $450 if not $500 . You can even find one at $600+.
There is no minimum amount of stock you have to buy. Ihave bought gifts of one share of AAPL. If you want to invest $5000, you can buy 12 shares of apple so what’s the reluctance to buy any stock at any price? If it goes up by 1, 5, 10 or more percent your investment of eve 10shares go up by that amount.
Dumbest Article by Jason P. I have read in a long time
Surely he outsourced that article. Not great for your reputation when you spout such nonsense!