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Be Ye Forewarned! .. More of the same Cryptic Rantings! .. Just Re-Packaged!
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Do the maths!
Total Computer Sales for 1st Qtr '09 (S'9.1) shall be less than (<) S'8.1
The same with Total

Computer Sales -> S

'9.1 < S

'8.1
And, as pointed out,

's share of the S'09.1 Pie
will roughly follow the same pattern of the 1st Qtr's of previous years;
maybe even declining a skosh because of the current price boundary.
That is to say, because the pocket$ of consumers are not as bulgy
as they've been in past years, Apparent Better Buy$ (such as PC),
could easily become a partial-market-force this year.
With That Said, as we know,

is not all about computers...

also sells items Below the current commoner price boundary of say $1000..
Such as iPhones and iPods and iApps and iVids, iMusics and iWhatevers..
The existence of

's non-Computer Sales weigh well in

's favor.

will prolly jump to the bleeding edge of technology
when the Demand Across the Computer Consumer Board calls for it..
i.e., when Consumers have the Dough to warrant that expensive leap.
With existing stocks of various tech items sitting on the shelves of

,
Computer Tech-Bumps are doable Now without an exorbitant rise in production costs.
The Net Sales Required to put out a (from head to toe) totally new

computer
should surpass the exorbitant costs of retooling a New 'Puter.
Ergo, the Virtue of Patience has its valid and sometimes unforeseen reward
for those who're forced to do with less than what they WANTed...
But Some ride that never-ending Wave of Technological Progress aka TomorrowStan..
Never ever fully satiated.. Always Looking for Tomorrow to arrive;
which, by Tomorrow's definition, can never arrive -> ergo FrustrationCity!
Perhaps the end of that line of forever-wishful-thinking,
is a super-brilliant (and perhaps beautiful) android (with a 42" 'monitor'!),
whom you can call your own: and who waits on you, 'skis' with you,
and answers every question that you could ever dream of.
And then you bore of him/her..
And then?
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