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OS X Lion and New MacBook Airs Coming on Wednesday?
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This is anticipation of a solid earnings report. They will have a better then expected report, the stock will dip a bit a bit when the report is done and then we get to listen to the ill informed claim that it means the report was bad.
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Impressive gains over the past week, they must be expecting the results to be a complete blow out.
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Which of course sets them up for disappointment when some figure isn't what they expect. It took long enough, but for the last three quarters analysis have been on to Apple's strategy of playing conservative with their official estimates. Last quarter was a complete blow out and the stock still rose, only to fall in June and then recover dramatically this month.
The interesting thing is that there were no major product releases apart from the iMac this quarter (quite notably no new iPhone, and no new notebooks). If Apple has a blowout then it just goes to show their strength.
I'm guessing the upcoming quarter looks positive, particularly if the MacBook, MacBook Air, and Mini lines get fresh updates in the coming days. These are popular back-to-school devices, and now is the prime season for them. Add expectations of some sort of iPhone revision in August or September, and things are looking good. Lion's a giveaway like Snow Leopard, so I don't see much impact on the revenue side.
(Full disclosure - I'm currently long AAPL).
Become ? Since when hasn't it been a computer ?
Computer : Device that takes input, processes it and provides output and storage. My friggin 1998 cellphone is a computer, why wouldn't an iPad be one ?
will I get Lion for free??
I just got a new 15" MBP today! (pretty sweet)...
Will I get Lion update for free? or do I have to pay? I'm going to install my previous mbp system (SL) later today.
I hope I can get lion for free, I couldn't wait anymore to get the mbp because I need to do a lot of work on the go!!
cheers
I just got a new 15" MBP today! (pretty sweet)...
Will I get Lion update for free? or do I have to pay? I'm going to install my previous mbp system (SL) later today.
I hope I can get lion for free, I couldn't wait anymore to get the mbp because I need to do a lot of work on the go!!
cheers
So, it still is a computer even if it doesn't have a keyboard.
I don't understand....
Sob....
I just got a new 15" MBP today! (pretty sweet)...
Will I get Lion update for free? or do I have to pay? I'm going to install my previous mbp system (SL) later today.
I hope I can get lion for free, I couldn't wait anymore to get the mbp because I need to do a lot of work on the go!!
cheers
Yes, you absolutely will be able to. Information hasn't been released yet, but check this page out: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
Technically not, since the transition from Middle English to Modern English is generally agreed to have occurred around 1500 (after the introduction of the printing press), long before the Acts of Union. Which is to say, the (modern) English language originated in England, because the United Kingdom didn't exist yet. Of course, if you go back farther than that Middle English developed from a combination of French (from, obviously, France) and Old English, which itself started as Anglo-Saxon (from northern continental Europe), with influences from Norse (from Scandinavia) and Celtic languages (actually from Britain, at least since the Celtic invasion, which was way back).
Er, sorry, what were we talking about again? I may have got off on a tangent there...
Oh, right, MacBook Airs. I'm going to be getting an 11" as soon as they're available. My 12" PowerBook is getting somewhat long in the tooth.
It was almost entirely Noah Webster's fault, really. He published a dictionary with a lot of spelling reforms, which became influential enough that many of them (though not all) were adopted throughout the country. So the next time you want to complain about differences between British and American spelling, you know who to blame.
Yep. See above story of the origins of the English language, and that's a vastly simplified account. I myself am an American whose ancestors were English, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Romanian, and a bunch of other things the farther back you go.
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Wow...this thread has been derailed to oblivion.
Might as well send this one off to wasteland.
tirerim said:
Technically not, since the transition from Middle English to Modern English is generally agreed to have occurred around 1500 (after the introduction of the printing press), long before the Acts of Union. Which is to say, the (modern) English language originated in England, because the United Kingdom didn't exist yet. Of course, if you go back farther than that Middle English developed from a combination of French (from, obviously, France) and Old English, which itself started as Anglo-Saxon (from northern continental Europe), with influences from Norse (from Scandinavia) and Celtic languages (actually from Britain, at least since the Celtic invasion, which was way back).
Er, sorry, what were we talking about again? I may have got off on a tangent there...
Oh, right, MacBook Airs. I'm going to be getting an 11" as soon as they're available. My 12" PowerBook is getting somewhat long in the tooth.
It was almost entirely Noah Webster's fault, really. He published a dictionary with a lot of spelling reforms, which became influential enough that many of them (though not all) were adopted throughout the country. So the next time you want to complain about differences between British and American spelling, you know who to blame.
Yep. See above story of the origins of the English language, and that's a vastly simplified account. I myself am an American whose ancestors were English, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Romanian, and a bunch of other things the farther back you go.
Wow...this thread has been derailed to oblivion.
Might as well send this one off to wasteland.
While you can always come up with a lot of reasons why Vista was a failure, the #1 most important reason that seeded the thought "FAILURE" into the minds of every Microsoft user was the fact that Vista was largely hardware incompatible, without being advertised as such.
Many people upgraded their machines to Vista, only to have all their devices crash and crash due to hardware incompatibilities. If you bought a brand new computer in 2007, Vista really wasn't that bad. Microsoft would have been better off just labeling older computers as completely incapable of running Vista (for drivers reasons and not speed)
Because Apple maintains tight control over their hardware, I can't even see Lion being as frustrating as Vista.
I see that the discussion has devolved into semantics and proper use of the Kings' English.
Cool. Keep being distracted while I run to the store to pick up my long-awaited MacBook Air this Wednesday!
Or Thursday.
Or Friday.
Oh, just come ON ALREADY I'VE GOT MONEY!
Cool. Keep being distracted while I run to the store to pick up my long-awaited MacBook Air this Wednesday!
Or Thursday.
Or Friday.
Oh, just come ON ALREADY I'VE GOT MONEY!
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I'm guessing that you are British and live in England in Great Britian in the United Kingdom in the European Union. AM I right?
Actually my friend had an interesting take on this question of whose language it is.
He said that language is something that you acquire from your mother, not really something you get from a grammar book. That being said he got his English from his mother who got hers from her mother and so on.
That British people also got their English from their mother and her mother and so on.
and since he traces his ancestry back to England eventually the British person and he both got their language from the same source, (great great great great grandmother or thereabouts)
So how is it that the British guys owns the language and it is the correct version and the American guy doesn't own it and is the wrong version. I know changes were made but they were surely made on both sides of the Atlantic. How is it that the British changes are right and the American ones are not?
Anyway just food for thought about my language, the one I got from me mum.
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Am currently in the hiring process for the Apple Store. Got an email today for an interview and they listed Wednesday and Friday times to come in. My money is on Thursday!
Is it just me, or does the bezel around the screen look thinner than the late 2010 MacBook Air?
Maybe it will be for sale online Wednesday, but they expect the first deliveries to the stores to be Thursday?
"According to people with proven track records who would be in a position to know"
I couldn't help but LOL
I couldn't help but LOL
I see that the discussion has devolved into semantics and proper use of the Kings' English.
Cool. Keep being distracted while I run to the store to pick up my long-awaited MacBook Air this Wednesday!
Or Thursday.
Or Friday.
Oh, just come ON ALREADY I'VE GOT MONEY!
Did you mean the Queen's English?
Apple will always give a free iPod for back to School promotions. Apple has always come out with a new iPhone every June/July. These rituals can never be broken......