Agathon to discuss Apple's stock price

[snoopy369]

You'd mostly use a remote for powerpoint type presentations (I assume that's what FrontRow is??) ... very common in business and academia, the latter being where Apple laptops are used. (My GF uses her MBP that way, for example.)

[-Jrabbit]

Hm, only 3 years out of corporate world, and already I've managed to forget the joys of PPT meetings. Life is good.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
It's a laptop. Whatever would you need a remote for in the first place?

That was my response when I found it in the box...

[Asher]

Originally posted by snoopy369
You'd mostly use a remote for powerpoint type presentations (I assume that's what FrontRow is??) ... very common in business and academia, the latter being where Apple laptops are used. (My GF uses her MBP that way, for example.)

FrontRow is a full-screen front end for media (not PPT/Keynote, but DVDs, photos, and music).

[-Jrabbit]

Whiclh brings me back to: WTF, why have a remote?
It's a freaking 15" screen. On a laptop! If it's further than arm's length away, you can't see it anyway.

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
It's a laptop. Whatever would you need a remote for in the first place?

Presentations that are projected onto larger screens. Stop dicking on apple, this is obvious. And if you believe Asher's lies about the remote not working with keynote, then slideshows.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
It's a laptop. Whatever would you need a remote for in the first place?

i often connect my mbp with the tv and use the remote to play movies and shows...

i havent tried it for any presentations but the remote works with many applications, even vlc for example...

[-Jrabbit]

I'm just asking. You (Wiggy, snoop and Markos) gave answers.
An altogether proper social transaction.

I own an MBP. I'm using it right now. I imagine the remote is still in the original wrapping, in the box, in storage. Frankly, I only vaguely remember its existence.

[Wiglaf]

It was a good proper social transaction until Asher soiled it with deception

[Agathon]

Of course you can use the remote with Keynote (see attached troll pic of me using the menu function on the remote). I doubt that most Apple portable owners ever use the thing.

Why do I have to be right all the time. This is getting tiresome.

[Colon™]

There can only be one proper response. The Wrongness Curve:

[Asher]

I've never given a presentation on my laptop, let alone stooped to using Keynote, but it certainly didn't work with PowerPoint when I got my laptop.

Any time I touched it, it took away my desktop in place of the ghastly frontrow GUI.

Speaking of being incapable of reason, why are you not discussing the stock price Aggie? For all of your hot air up to December about how valuable the company is, blah blah blah, you're awful quiet these days. How about some crow.

[-Jrabbit]

Posted in one of the Barron's blogs today...

April 1, 2008, 4:26 pm
Apple Stores Out of iPhones, Piper Says; 3G Soon?
Posted by Eric Savitz

Will Apple (AAPL) surprise everyone with an earlier-than-expected debut of the next generation iPhone?

Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster raised that possibility today. He writes in a research note that calls today to 20 Apple retail stores nationwide found none of them had iPhones in stock. He also notes the lead time for phones ordered on Apple.com stands at 5-7 days.

Munster figures there is an 80% chance that a new iPhone is coming earlier than expected; he sees a 20% chance that there is a production or manufacturing issue with the phone.

If a new version is coming, Munster contends, it will likely be a 3G phone at the current $400 price point. “We do not expect a radical form factor change and see the new version as looking similar to the existing iPhone,” he writes.

Meanwhile, Merril Lynch last night reinstated coverage of Apple; new Merrill Lynch hardware analyst Jeff Fidacaro rates the stock a Buy, with a $180 price target. “We remain positive on Apple’s growth potential given its opportunity to gain market share in large addressable markets, especially in the PC and mobile handset markets,” he wrote.

Apple today jumped $6.03, or 4.2%, to $149.53.

Linky

[Asher]

3G, 3 years later? Will wonders never cease?

[Agathon]

Look, I was right again. Back in November the market crashed and Apple plunged. Then it gradually rose back again. Same thing is happening this time.

You can't take anyone seriously when they think it is a sign of Apple being overvalued that it was $200 and then $140, when the same people said it was massively overvalued at $75 a share (and said that fair value was half that). How could it have been massively overvalued at $75 a share, when it has been trading at twice that after the market plunged.

It's like the boy who cried wolf.