This week: Apple, Intel, iTunes

This week Apple earned PC Magazine's Readers' Choice Award, again, and ranked among the top "gas-proof" stocks which aren't affected by the soaring cost of crude oil. Continuing the trend, an analyst from American Technology Research believes , Apple will sell 7.1 million iPods in the current quarter. The experience one columnist had after purchasing his first Mac is an example of how one individual discovered the halo effect.... First indications from Mac developers point to a quick and smooth transition to the Intel platform, and Intel announced it will port its software development tools to Mac OS X with the first beta shipping later this year.

One columnist says that Apple's move to Intel-based Macs will spark innovation in the PC industry, and that if his theory is correct the move is exactly what's needed to breath new life into an area of technology that is currently starved of innovation. Intel confirmed that three new chips scheduled for the second half of 2006 are to use a new architecture which will succeed Netburst, currently used by its Pentium 4 and Xeon CPUs.... D&M Holdings, which markets the Rio brand, announced it would exit the mass-market portable digital audio player business, which leaves the iPod with one less competitor. Napster President Brad Duea claimed that Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer has "tricked people into buying a hardware trap" on Tuesday. Today it was reported that negotiations between music copyright holders and several prominent online music services have broken down over royalty payments for streamed music, which directly jeopardizes services such as Napster.

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spacefreak

Gasproof?

08/28, 1:10am, EDT

[i]Apple... ranked among the top "gas-proof" stocks which aren't affected by the soaring cost of crude oil.[/i]

So Apple somehow uses plastics not made from oil? And their global shipping operations are running off of what - solar power?

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Missing the point.

08/28, 4:28am, EDT

You're making a non-sequitur argument. The summary says that Apple's stocks aren't affected by the rising cost of oil. It doesn't say that the rising cost isn't having any effect on their revenue or profit or costs of doing business. Basically, they're doing the same amount of business because consumer demand for their products isn't affected by the oil cost, and neither are their product prices so far (there are much more expensive components to a computer than the plastics that go into making them; the day logic boards go up in price because of the cost of plastic will be a day of very high oil prices indeed). Stop trolling.

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