“In a note to clients issued Tuesday, Barclays Capital’s Ben Reitzes has added his voice to the chorus of commentators with free advice for Apple’s (AAPL) executive team, now that it’s caught the eye of federal regulators,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “Reitzes, like most commentators, believes Apple’s less-than-dominant share of the smartphone market should give the company ample defense — ‘for now.'”
Elmer-DeWitt reports, “But he also thinks the company needs an attitude adjustment.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Throwing some cash around Washington D.C. wouldn’t hurt, either. It’s unfortunate, but true.
I can image how Steve would react if somebody had the guts to tell him he and his company needed an “attitude adjustment”; flying chairs, anyone?
they all want cash & free iphones & ipads and they’ll leave Apple alone
@gladmax,
No, he doesn’t throw chairs, he just reams you out in the elevator or clucks like a chicken.
Ugh. I hate agreeing with this MDN Take, but they’re right. It just doesn’t pay to play it straight with Washington…
——RM
@Cubert:
Clucks like a chicken????
This guy is a typical, moron, gutless journalist nobody. Does not know what the fsck he is writing about. Earlier today, this lying ass dog barked about how the Apple Store app does not work. He is a liar.
Now the yellow belly is shivering over Apple not knuckling down to the feds, wants them to play like every other loser company.
DeWitt, you dumb ass. Stop writing and go flip burgers.
Hmmm… Let’s see, waves of free market consumers freely choose to purchase Apple products, while 90% of most industry forces their employees to use a POS product line from one single company from Redmonds, and one phone from a Canadian company, both difficult to integrate, behind in technology standards, and lock in their users, with the mono-culture making them national security weaknesses, and yet the government would be more concerned about the consumer company?
Bulshit!!!
The world needs to start using common sense and perspective again.
Sensational headlines like Dimwitt Elmer FUD’s don’t contribute, but to the dumbing down of thinking…
On one hand Apple is too secretive, doesn’t say enough and doesn’t open up… And on the other side of the mouth Apple needs too tone down the rhetoric???
If you can’t take the heat get the fuck out of the kitchen.
Apple says what and when it wants to- that doesn’t excuse the listeners (?) from thinking and if idiot journalist, analysts and politicians can blatantly say mindless nothings all the time under cover of free press, free speech etc… Why cant Apple?
It’s time everyone started realizing that talk is cheap and means nothing – especially to the dds.
Action speaks louder than words. Apple puts it’s money where the talk is and has given us pretty much everything that tech has to offer today when it comes to innovation, excitement, quality, software excellence and customer satisfaction.
As for the human factor that does nothing but eat shit and screw anymore: Time for the bar to be raised everywhere and fast, or we’ll follow the descent down the tubes that swallowed the Roman empire.
Drill baby drill and at the same time, stop the leak and disregard the details just blindly look to assign blame and still at the same time, don’t stop the drilling…?!
Think different? How about just use your brain and just think, for starters?
Steve should write:
Thoughts on why I’m not going to grease the pockets of anyone in DC to be able to do business in the US.
Success must be punished, or redistributed.
Apple doesn’t need an attitude adjustment, it’s the buffoons outside of Apple that do. Apple does business the best it can and its business is providing top notched technology to consumers and businesses alike, not playing politics. Once you go down that road, you might as well close up shop.
Steve Jobs has given good, technical reasons for not allowing some apps (Adobe and others) to be used. Unlike MS that had a agenda to squeeze out competition. Even in the music business they became #1 by having a business model that worked. Apple’s attitude has been lets build what we would want, and most people will like that too. OMG it is working.
If the butts in Washington would sit and listen carefully to the entire D8 interview with SJ, they just might get an understanding of what Apple is all about. Especially when SJ says something about having to compromise principles – paraphrasing: “I mighty just as well quit”. Maybe if more of them had principles, they’d quit.
Just Adope and Mr. Smithers from Googloid stinking up the halls in Washington.
Disgusting!
overdog?
The politicians see the quality, service, and profit, then they compare it to what they know from the government service. They just believe that Apple must be doing wrong. If government can not do it then how can they. Politicians are such idiots. Then they see money and want more donated to their worthless selves.
Politicians are such whores, thieves, and harvard no-nothings.
But, they are the best that the dollar can buy! Then again, fertilizer is cheaper in volume!
AHEM! Elmer-FUD again? We just HAD this subject and shot it down:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/25577/
Let me guess. MDN re-posted this FUD in order to whomp the Obama administration.
Can we PLEASE kill the politics around here? The Tard level of political discussion is both silly and boring. The two party US system is FAILed. Both parties suck. We live in a corporate OLIGARCHY. There are dozens of places to PoliRant. This is NOT one of them. Let’s return to relevant, non-FUD Apple topics…
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I’ve seen no evidence that Apple is breaking any laws or flaunting any regulations. It is a company that is simply running rings around its competition right now. Since these competitors cannot compete, they are using the age old system of whining to “momma”; Washington DC regulators in this case. When complaints are made, no matter how unfounded, regulators are paid to look into it and lots of people get to write speculative articles with hyperbolic headlines. This is a misuse of our government by business. I hope Steve gives them all the finger and a big F You!
@Derek Currie,
Perfectly true!
Everyone should vote out the top 5 and the old piles in office next election. They are like a weeds, pull both parties by the root system.
The people need to weed out the stupidity and waste they did- trillions of wasted dollars by removing them- the top, oldest, and the leader of both parties.
Worthless, pieces of steaming crap. You are right- both are failed!
The people should lead the government and not the government leading the people.
Steve Jobs as a modern day Hank Rearden in a new book called “Apple Shrugged”?
Re: MacDailyNews Take: “Throwing some cash around Washington D.C. wouldn’t hurt, either. It’s unfortunate, but true.”
Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute.
federal regulators, how do those guys have time to investigate anything? I thought they were too busy surfing Porn.
NCG598 writes, “Politicians are such whores, thieves, and harvard no-nothings.” Oh, so true.
Consider the hundreds appointed to positions of authority in this administration. How many have ever created a business? Almost none. How many have ever run a business, made a payroll, or had to make executive decisions? Very few. Obama himself never did. Congress too is full of lawyers who moved into politics with no private sector experience.
If Steve were anyone else, he’d quietly remind folks like Boxer, Feinstein, Pelosi and Waxman that Apple could easily move out of California, along with its thousands of jobs.
Jon1 suggests instead, ” Steve should write: Thoughts on why I’m not going to grease the pockets of anyone in DC to be able to do business in the US.” Just imagine… Liberal Jobs channeling Gilder and Sowell.
This “article” is just another thinly-veiled piece of market manipulation.
Step 1: Drive it down and then buy it.
Step 2: Watch it quickly rise and then sell it.
Step 3: Repeat steps 1 and 2.
@NHL
You left out the primary step of shorting it, then publish the FUD, then go to Step 1 and cover while you also go long. Proceed to Step 2, then repeat.
Compared to the mostly unpunished shenanigans at microsoft and google I’ve seen nothing of concern from Apple. Still, the company might want to increase their lobbying largesse.