Comments on: Analyst: Apple, could you be more like IBM, please?

By: Moving On

Moving On — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:17:46 +0000

Apple’s days became numbered the day Steve Jobs left this Earth. Sure, it may survive in some fashion, but it will become a shell of it’s former self. Apple, sans Jobs, is too proprietary in an increasingly open world. Jobs’ ability to market new products to make them seem indispensable buoyed the company. That ability is now gone with no signs of anything to replace it.

There was a reason that Apple languished in Jobs’ absence. That reasoning has not changed. If anything, it has been amplified.

Apple can either join an open world or die a slow, painful death.

By: MountainWalker

MountainWalker — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:25:36 +0000

The worst thing that could happen for Apple is they start taking strategy advice from those not as good as them or not even in the game. They need to be focusing their core, which is creating great, mind-blowing products, not playing with stock price.

By: G

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:34:03 +0000

The crisis revolves around overvaluation of Apple stock in a bubble atmosphere, not real problems at Apple. Yes the Iphone 5 is a dissapointment that has done well. No company can revolutionize industry every year forever especially when the former head was indisputable genius in production, quality control, marketing, and sales. Let it rest Wall Street! This “problem” is a Wall Street problem.

By: Matt Eagar

Matt Eagar — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:54:37 +0000

Only Wall Street would want Apple to be more like IBM — the rest of us are happy with Apple the way they are.