» Apple in 2013
Macworld has posted the full audio of a panel featuring Dan Moren, Lex Friedman, Serenity Caldwell and myself where we speculate on what Apple will shoot out of its product cannon and into our faces in 2013. See if you can spot the joke I stole from my pals at You Look Nice Today.
» Agreed
Tim Bajarin:
If any one thinks Apple has stopped innovating then I have a bridge in NYC that I would like to sell them.
Hey, I could be wrong, but as I’ve pointed out, people said the exact same thing just before the first iPhone came out. I don’t know the timing, I don’t know the product, I don’t know if it’ll suck or not. But I’ll be very surprised if they don’t still have some tricks up their sleeve.
» Dell
It’s delightful Schadenfreude that he was the one who eventually gave the money back to investors, but the guy did actually stick to the principle he espoused. So, there’s that.
» This booth ain’t made for talkin’
Lex Friedman reports on the odd tale of Starfish,
» Sell on the news, also on the rumor
Philip Elmer-Dewitt again:
Morgan Stanley finds evidence that Apple’s margins will improve before the end of 2013
So, naturally, because rumors from analysts — like those about demand for the iPhone 5 — drive Apple’s stock price, it’s up right nowhahahaha, no, it’s down, of course.
» Sponsor: Igloo Software
My thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the Very Nice Web Site RSS feed this week.
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It’s time you try Igloo (and check out their fancy new form, too.)
» Short answers to simple questions
Philip Elmer-Dewitt on the fact that the fourth calendar quarter of 2012 was a week shorter than last year’s:
Yet of the three dozen Wall Street analysts we polled in advance of last month’s earnings report, only a handful mentioned the short quarter. Those who failed to take it into account, of course, would tend to underestimate revenues in the long quarter (i.e. fiscal Q1 2012) and overestimate them in the short (Q1 2013).
Is it possible that professional analysts paid to study the world’s most valuable company were unaware of something so material to their forecasts?
Yes.
Thank you for playing.
Macworld Expo
Today’s a travel day for me as I head to Macworld | iWorld Expo and Conventu-con-a-rama. And tomorrow will probably be a hangover day. And the day after that.
Look, if you don’t catch me at Macworld, don’t be surprised if you don’t hear from me until next week.
» A tough hole to dig out of
Brian Lam for the Wirecutter on the new BlackBerry:
You should not buy this phone unless you have emotional and cultural reasons to love Blackberry, or some arcane enterprise reason I will not pretend to understand.
I don’t envy BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins. I mean, Moltz is a hard enough name to grow up with, but Heins? And then on top of that he’s running BlackBerry. Brutal.
» The 23GB Surface Pro
The Verge’s Tom Warren:
A company spokesperson has confirmed to The Verge that the 64GB edition of Surface Pro will have 23GB of free storage out of the box.
“Pro.”