“‘Weird.’ That was the one-word answer given by Apple chairman Arthur D. Levinson when asked to describe his experience running the company’s board of directors since Steve Jobs’s death,” Kurt Wagner reports for Fortune.
“Levinson, who joined the board in 2000, was a colleague and close friend to Apple’s legendary founder and CEO. On Tuesday, he said that Jobs’s absence remains tough to ignore even as the company has continued introducing new products and making fresh announcements,” Wagner reports. “‘I’m still not to the point where I walk into that board room and don’t miss Steve,’ said Levinson, who finally started but has so-far failed to finish reading Jobs’s biography. ‘He was a one of a kind guy… The Steve Jobs that was in the public eye was not, for the most part, the Steve Jobs that I knew.'”
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What??? This guy is of no help either. Every time one of the Cupertino moguls speaks, AAPL takes a plunge. Why is it so hard for MDN and it’s faithful lemmings to see what the problem is?
Why is it so hard for the Apple haters (iHaters?) to make the distinction between APPL and Apple Inc? Why is it so hard for iHaters to see that the problem is WS?
APPL is not Apple, it is controlled by Wallstreet, PERIOD. What else would explain why record growth, record sales, record profit, best customer satisfaction in the entire industry, with a completely ridiculous undervalued P/E ratio, no debt, and a cubic metric buttload of cash get so plummeled and punished? There is no logical, sane reasonable explanation.
Thankfully, Apple Inc doesn’t value the opinions and business practices of WS. They are concerned about making great products for their end users. You remember those guys? They are the paying customers who keep Apple Inc operating and in business, in spite of the idiots at WS. Its the paying customers/ end users who have built Apple’s cash reserve, and the idiot analcysts, tech journalists, hedge fund morons, and other WS sycophants are pissed that Apple has achieved something they never will. Their only goal is to get their hands on Apple’s cash, bring it down and destroy it for not playing by WS ‘rules’.
As long as Apple Inc, the producer of great products, defines itself by those products, and not by the performance of APPL, the iHaters and WS will be frustrated and pissed off for a very long time. The day Apple defines itself by APPL and WS ‘expectations, they will die a quick flaming death.
That was yesterday. Wall Street doesn’t care at all about yesterday. Never have, never will. All the defense of Apple Inc.’s great products, great profits, great horde of cash, etc., etc., is just white noise to Wall Street. It’s not the speculators, not some conspiracy, not some dark maneuvering, it’s a failed management team without any answer of how the company is going to regain its former greatness as the prime innovator of tech in today’s world. They don’t understand that concept. Until a new team arrives to reignite that energy, nothing is going to change and that’s why Wall Street isn’t interested in investing in the company. What’s so hard to understand about this reality?
It’s hard to understand anything legible when it is coming out of your ass.
That was yesterday……… good ole’ ppeterson, not only an iHater, but a WS apologist. You just explained Wall Streets’ entire problem. Nothing is ever enough, nothing is ever good enough.
The WS greed leaves them blind as they grasp for more money, bigger returns, faster profit and fatter margins at any cost.
They spew garbage out of both ends, contradict themselves, and punish productive companies at a whim, while rewarding vapor like Amazon and Google for razor thin margins.
Look at Apple, Some analcyst drops the price of APPL for not having a cheaper phone with bigger market share. A different analcyst says he believes Apple will produce a cheaper phone, APPL share price drops again cause the Apples’ only hope of survival cheap phone will have lower margins…… Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Look at the watch rumors, Apple is getting beat up for thinking about a watch, even as others are rewarded for copying the watch that Apple hasn’t even announced yet. Even worse, above said knee jerk copier is now credited with originating the watch, which somehow Apple is now desperately trying to replicate to keep up with the so called ‘competition’
When it comes to Apple and APPL, WS, the analcysts, and tech journalist are the hit whoring blind leading the copy and paste hit whoring blind. Oh well, at least they will always have iHater ppeterson cheering them on, passing along every bit of FUD he can spread.
So, is ppeterson only on the payroll of Samedung, or does he get a monthly check from some WS brokerage also?
Put the Woz in charge.
You?
I have a suggestion for Mr. Levinson.
Apple was issued USPTO patent D676438 yesterday, 02/19/2013 for an Electronic Device. Prior to last summer there was a locking slot called a USS – universal security slot. USS was provided for free by Apple to lock their MBP using a locking device supplied by others. New MBPR does not have USS. MBPR users now must purchase from others a really big and clumsy locking station provided with a USS.
Apple receives and this is only my guess zero, nada or nothing from others securing an Apple MBPR. Apple has exclusive IP rights to sale of Lightning Cables why not an Apple locking device for MBPR?
Mr. Levinson, call ACCO Brands and make an exclusive arrangement to use Clicksafe or Microsaver for Apple’s exclusive IP rights to my patent pending locking device for http://goo.gl/PZ8mF