iPad Mini Manufacturer Sees Weaker Demand for the Tablet This Quarter [Updated]

[Toltepeceno]

Bloomberg isn't gullible, they have an agenda. Just the other day they put up a story with this headline:

Harvard Liquidates Apple Stake After iPhone Sales Lose Steam

According to Philip Elmer-Dewitt, Harvard's stake in Apple before the sale amounted to a total of 571 shares, 0.03% of the university's $30.7 billion endowment, and according to Bloomberg the liquidation netted a total of $304,000.

This isn't people being naive or gullible. This is the media having an agenda. And the agenda is negative stories about Apple drive page views, so the more negative stories we write the more site clicks we'll get.

I'm just waiting for the day when this happens to, oh I don't know, maybe another very successful company, like Samsung. But so far the media has decided Samsung = good and Apple = bad.

The US media biased with an agenda? I'm shocked I tell you.

I hate to make blanket type statements about anyone, but the only people here in mexico that do not know our media is very badly biased are the people living here from the US and canada. We have known it all along.

 

[h4lp m3]

Doesn't surprise me. I hate the mini. Know many people that do.

 

[SILen(e]

This isn't people being naive or gullible. This is the media having an agenda. And the agenda is negative stories about Apple drive page views, so the more negative stories we write the more site clicks we'll get.

I'm just waiting for the day when this happens to, oh I don't know, maybe another very successful company, like Samsung. But so far the media has decided Samsung = good and Apple = bad.

It will happen.

A long time ago, Microsoft was bad and Apple the cool underdog, then Google was bad and Microsoft was the alternative (Bing), after that the media turned to Facebook and now they are biased against Apple.

The company that was bad in the past has always become the new saviour in the following round, Google is now the company that is seen as the one saving world from the "Apple dictatorship", allied with Samsung, the company giving away "better than iPhone"-hardware for less money than "greedy" Apple is asking for.

But we have already seen some hints of Samsung becoming the bad guy, last year the voices of Android users who don't like the dominance of Samsung and their "One new device per week" release schedule have become louder.

 

[Ubele]

This does not. Did people go back to using the telegraph when the novelty of the telephone wore off?

Um... I was joking.

 

[Ubele]

You joke, but this is real. On the side I own a vintage arcade and game store. The throwback stuff has been doing well anyway but about two years ago I had a chance to buy out an entire warehouse full of comics. Dead tree media seemed like a bad investment so I passed. Now it would cost me double the offer just to get that inventory at all, and print comics sales are booming. Completely unexpected.

It's often hard to predict what types of things will go up in value, but when a generation gets into their 50s or so and has money to spend, they start buying things that were important to them in their youth. I got rid of a lot of my 1960s toys that are now worth quite a bit. Fortunately, I kept my first-generation Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars. The problem with technology is that it becomes obsolete. You can't do much useful with 1990 Apple computer, so its value is only as a collectible item. Of course, you could say that about collectible plates and figurines and such, although they arguably have aesthetic value that old tech gadgets don't. Something like a good guitar, on the other hand, will always be playable (as long as it's taken care of), and it's a thing of beauty, as well. Honestly, I don't fully understand the concept of collecting things for the sake of collecting, but that's just me.

 

[opinio]

Everyone seems to be constantly waiting for the next model.

I can't keep up