“Thanks to Twitter follower @herringroup for catching Bloomberg’s Betty Liu toss any Apple-related credibility she might have had out the slamming screen door in the span of just 4-5 seconds,” Rocco Pendola writes for TheStreet. “There’s no defense — none whatsoever — for what Liu said there. ‘Is there a product that can ‘save’ Apple?’ Is she freaking serious?”
Pendola writes, “I know there is absolutely not some devious Apple hatred campaign underlying financial media coverage, but when Liu makes such an absurd comment, she certainly doesn’t help my case. In fact, after you watch her — and that entire segment — you could, as a perfectly sane and logical person, wonder if something is up.”
MacDailyNews Take: Hey, Alix, can you cram more unsupported, baseless tripe into your fomenting?
By the way:
• Apple dominates mobile phone makers with 72% profit share worldwide in Q412 – February 6, 2013
• Apple owns 70% of global smartphone profits, Samsung 25%, ‘other’ 5% – February 1, 2013
• Apple iPhone continues lead with 51.2% U.S. market share as Android users increasingly switch to iPhone – January 22, 2013
• Of myths and market share – January 18, 2013
• How Apple is destroying Android from the inside out – January 18, 2013
• Apple dominates smartphone OS satisfaction survey – January 18, 2013
• Apple surges ahead of Google in mobile ads – January 18, 2013
• Google Android’s smartphone OS unit share lead may be ending soon – January 2, 2013
• The Android engagement paradox – November 26, 2012
• People buy more Android phone units and do less with them vs. Apple’s revolutionary iPhone – November 14, 2012
• Apple kicks Google’s Android in the teeth; $1.05 billion jury award may really be worth $450 billion – August 27, 2012
• Study: iPhone users vastly outspent Android users on apps, respond much better to ads – August 20, 2012
• Game over, Android: Apple owns 84% of mobile gaming revenue – May 7, 2012
• Apple takes lion’s share of mobile profits; Samsung unit sales estimates cloud market share picture – May 1, 2012
Pendola writes, “How can Bloomberg allow a story — positioned as a news piece, mind you, not an opinion segment — to get on the air with that type of question and zero necessary context? If Liu is ad-libbing, she screwed up. If somebody wrote that for her and she read it off of the teleprompter like a talking head, just as bad. And to support the whole thing with graphs and charts on Android/Samsung’s market share and Apple’s margins without discussing a.) the Android/Samsung strategies and b.) where Apple’s margins have come from borders on dereliction of duty.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, something is up and poor blank-eyed Betsy needs to leave the AAPL fomenting to more capable talking heads.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jersey_Trader” for the heads up.]
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