“It’s been obvious to anyone following Apple news coverage since September that there has been a concerted media effort to bring the world’s most profitable tech company to its knees. Some of the bad press it’s received has been deserved, such as the early problems with the new Maps application which replaced Google in iOS 6. But most of it has been nefarious in nature,” Doctor Wallaby blogs for A Crazy Random Jumble of Blog. “It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of it was inspired (i.e. payed for) by Samsung, who recently apologized to HTC for paying reviewers to provide false reviews of the Taiwanese company’s products. The real problem, though, is Wall Street right here in the good old US of A.”
“All of this bad press is designed to do one thing: undermine Cook’s leadership to such a degree that he is forced to open the Apple coffers in order to save his job,” Wallaby writes. “That’s right. These snakes are just trying to get their slimy fingers into Apple’s cookie jar, because Apple no longer has a leader who they feel can resist them.”
Wallaby writes, “The worst thing Apple could do at this juncture is cave to the demands of these lying, manipulative jackals poised to tear apart everything Jobs and so many others have built. Stay strong, Tim, and show them that even though you’re not the man whose shoes you’ve been called on to fill, you are still not a man with whom to be trifled.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we’ve said repeatedly over the past three months, “All Apple did last quarter was to post the most profitable quarter for a tech company in history.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacRaven” for the heads up.]
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