Re: Faster List Checking
Re: Faster List Checking
- Subject: Re: Faster List Checking
- From: George Anten <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 18:51:55 -0400
"John C. Welch" asked:
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1) Are they doing a decent job of servicing their customers.
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2) Are they taking the steps to work on corporate growth over the long
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term, not doing stupid things to look good next quarter?
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3) Are they coming up with new ways to use their strengths to make money?
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4) Are they innovating so that they don't stagnate?
Apple's user base is growing at a rate less than the PC market (I don't know
of any source that says otherwise). Apple has not converted 3/4 of its users
to its current OS (and arguably to its latest hardware). Apple that's quick
to publish successful numbers (from QuickTime downloads to Music Store
sales) has been reluctant to release Switcher numbers.
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Stock prices don't mean a company is successful. It just means that analysts
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like the company.
A public company relies on it stock price to accomplish a huge range of
things (from employee retention through options to borrowing money to
acquisitions.) In our economy, we happen to rely on it for gauging financial
success of companies. Apple does a whole bunch of stuff to maintain/improve
its stock price, including its cash reserves of ~ $4 billion. I don't think
the stock price is as ignorable as you posit.
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Apple is doing the correct things to make sure that they are going to be
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here for many years to come, not just next quarter.
I agree.
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So, like any company that doesn't kowtow to the analysts, their stock is in
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the terlit.
Actually, AAPL has seen quite a bit of improvement over the last few weeks.
To bring this back on topic, if that were even possible :-) many a corporate
buyer/manager are intrigued by various Apple technologies, including
AppleScript, but shy away from them for reasons that are entangled with
Apple's size, market share, viability, etc. And that's a shame.
g/a
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