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The Motley Fool: ‘Sorry Howard Stern, Apple is the new king of all media’

Friday, October 29, 2004 · 12:37 pm · 41 Comments

“It seems as if it’s only a matter of time before Apple Computer is renamed Apple Entertainment. The company that spent decades making cool computers is now a multimedia powerhouse. Its iPod and iTunes Music Store have reinvented — if not outright reinvigorated — the digital music industry. Now Apple is ready to strike a pose as its new iPod Photo player enters the video market with the ability to store as many as 25,000 digital pictures,’ Rick Aristotle Munarriz reports for The Motley Fool.

MacDailyNews Note: “iPod Photo player enters the video market?” Well, iPod Photo does play slideshows of stills on video monitors, at least.

Munarriz reports, “You have to hand the apple to Apple. With its iMac crowd loyal yet relegated to being a thin slice of the larger computer market, Apple has been able to come up with new ways to matter to the mainstream.”

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woj

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 1:45 pm · Reply

hyperbole, but nice
Harry

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 3:03 pm · Reply

here is my ipod photo slideshow

http://homepage.mac.com/harry17a3/PhotoAlbum6.html
DudeMac

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 3:24 pm · Reply

Harry,

Nice and Nice (iMac G5 in the background)!
AL

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 3:27 pm · Reply

Pixar can be a division of Apple Entertainment. Maybe even Disney… Just have to lose ABC
Randy

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 3:31 pm · Reply

The party looks more interesting.
joe

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 4:16 pm · Reply

Is Apple the king of entertainment or Steve Jobs? He controls Apple and Pixar.
opl

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 4:32 pm · Reply

Is Apple the king of entertainment or Steve Jobs?

Apple, it is a leaded team. Jobs is the leader, but the credits are for the team.
Red Wings

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 4:46 pm · Reply

A title Apple doesnt need, or it will choke what we love about it. Keep setting the example. Make it harder for others to copy and keep up. Get the word out. Use a system and equipment that just works, and lets you live your life rather than dictating how you spend your time on earth. (Patches, updates, fending off hackers, adware, spyware, viruses, worms, trojans.)
John Kerry

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 6:04 pm · Reply

http://johnkerryads.websiteanimal.com
moiety5

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 6:19 pm · Reply

Its amazing that the Motley Fool bunch of people don’t read their own articles. How often do we hear of scathing articles about Apple and then terrific reviews of Apple from the same source??
Tromba

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 7:23 pm · Reply

The John Kerry link is comment spam. It should be deleted. (If you’re wondering, its an anti-Kerry ad.)
MCCFR

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 9:06 pm · Reply

Great article from The Times [I]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1336132,00.html[/I] on the U2 deal.
Gary

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 9:47 pm · Reply

Great John Kerry piece. Everyone should take a look. Very interesting.
Mike

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 9:48 pm · Reply

Tromba,

I know why you want to delete the Kerry link, it’s very embarrassing for him.
Steve

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 9:57 pm · Reply

The New York Times created quite a stir on Oct. 25 when it reported that 380 tons of powerful explosives had disappeared from a storage site in Iraq. John Kerry immediately seized on the story, launching an ad that blamed President Bush and assuring Americans, �As president, I�ll bring a fresh start to protect our troops and our nation.�

But it�s difficult to understand what all the fuss is about.

After all, even though Kerry wants to blame Bush for the missing explosives, they seem to have been missing before the coalition invaded Iraq. Let�s review the timeline of the now infamous al Qaqaa weapons-storage facility:

In 1991 the International Atomic Energy Agency sealed storage bunkers that contained the high explosives HMX and RDX. They apparently remained in place until January 2003, when, shortly before the allied invasion, agency inspectors checked and resealed them.

Some time in March 2003, inspectors viewed the sealed explosives at al Qaqaa for the final time before pulling out of the country.

The site was first visited by American troops on April 3, when the 3rd Infantry Division secured it. The soldiers knew they were at a weapons facility and searched it carefully.

According to a CBS News report at the time, they �found thousands of boxes, each of which contained three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.� But no mention of tons of high explosives, which certainly would have stood out.

On April 10, 2003 — just one day after Baghdad fell, the U.S. Army�s 101st Airborne Division took charge of al Qaqaa. An NBC News crew was embedded with those soldiers. That network noted that they also found plenty of conventional explosives — but no HMX or RDX.

In fact, these explosives must have disappeared long before April. Remember, we�re talking about hundreds of tons of explosives. One couldn�t exactly smuggle them out in a shopping cart; it would require a fleet of trucks.
Steve

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 9:58 pm · Reply

Reporter Lai Ling Jew was with the troops at al Qaqaa in April, and noted that roads were so crowded with military vehicles, �it would have been very difficult, I believe, for the looters to get there.�

However, others could have carted the explosives away during the weeks between the final inspection and the actual invasion. We know truckloads of equipment were shipped from Iraq to Syria during the months-long long run-up to war, a period Kerry calls the �rush to war.� Maybe these controversial explosives were on some of those trucks.

Also, let�s consider why these dangerous explosives — which we are now assured could be used against American troops — hadn�t been destroyed sometime between 1991 and 2003. The sad fact is that Saddam Hussein argued, as The New York Times put it, that Iraq �should be allowed to keep them for eventual use in mining and civilian construction,� and the United Nations agreed.

So, under the eagle eyes of the U.N., these explosives were preserved when they could have been destroyed.

Oh, and by the way: If this cache of HMX and RDX really is dangerous, that would seem to refute another piece of Kerry�s case against the president – his insistence that Bush �misled� Americans about Iraq�s weapons program.

To review: The senator who voted for the $87 billion before he voted against it now blames the president for losing explosives that were already gone when the war began. Explosives that could have been used in a program the senator also says never existed. Interesting.

As Melissa Fleming, a spokeswoman for the IAEA, put it, �Our immediate concern is that if the explosives did fall into the wrong hands, they could be used to commit terrorist acts and some of the bombings that we�ve seen.� Well, if they made their way into terrorist hands, it happened during the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. So the only way to prevent future such distributions was to invade Iraq and disarm him.

Kerry has frequently opined that Iraq was merely �a profound diversion from the war on terrorism,� rather than an important front in that war. So, using Kerry�s logic, it seems unlikely that any weapons taken before April 2003 would have ended up in the hands of terrorists. So, this whole thing is really just a tempest in a teapot.

There. I feel better. Don�t you?
doPi

Friday, October 29, 2004 - 10:27 pm · Reply

It does not matter what the issue is, it is still weird to mix politics within an Apple web site.
Can’t you guys find another platform for your rantings?
mike

Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 12:45 am · Reply

dopi.. no doubt.. right wing vs. kinda right wing… ooooh so tense
fandango

Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 2:09 am · Reply

“There. I feel better. Don�t you?”

No, I don’t.

Steve, please reserve your comments to Apple-related topics. I have my own opinions regarding politics & religion, but I don’t air them here. It is inappropriate do so.

I regard political ranting in a forum like this akin to unzipping one’s pants and dangling their genitalia for all to see: they are both uninvited and indecent public displays.

I, for one, don’t care about your political opinions. If you have some salient, Apple-related comments to make, then this is the place to do it.
One guy from Finland

Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 3:18 am · Reply

Apple is Unix PowerHouse
Apple is computer pOwerHouse
Apple is coolest Powerhouse
Apple is power powerHouse
Apple is rocking powerhOuse
YOu continue the list…

Longhorn BBQ at my place!
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