“The fashionable iPod has made Apple Computer beloved on Wall Street. But its success masks an erosion in the company’s profitability… The bulls hope that the introduction of Intel chips into Apple computers this year will drive Apple’s share of the personal computer market from its recent 2.5% back toward the 10% it enjoyed 15 years ago. Another hopeful thought: Because only 8% of U.S. households own an iPod, Apple can sell a lot more,” Michael K. Ozanian writes for Forbes. “But once you turn down the hosannas on the music player, you are left with a company with no hammerlock on the technology (Creative holds the patent to the interface for MP3 players) and no unique operational advantages (such as Dell’s made-to-order computers).”
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MacDailyNews Take: While reading the full article, keep in mind that Ozanian shapes things in keeping with the overall theme of his article. For one example, just from the bit quoted above, note the “Creative holds the patent to the interface for MP3 players” statement. As analyst Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, stated last month, “Getting a patent agency to say you have a patent is one thing, but getting a court to say that it is enforceable is something else.”
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