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It's almost as if creating alot of hype over what turned out to be a thinner laptop would disappoint people somehow.

This is what happens when a company doesn't deliver..they needed some of this to realize that they gotta make some useful **** instead of a piece of crap that does nothin for the company and the stock holders

You can only sugar coat PC hardware so much before it starts getting old and costly.

at $1,800, without a damn optical drive, I think is going to fail. If I have $1,800 dollars available for a laptop right now, I will save until I have to buy a macbook pro, at least this laptop have all kind of ports, great power, Optical drive and light weight, not as much as the macbook air but I don't care, this feature does not cost $1,800 dollars

Please, why can't you get this!!! The stock market has fallen this week because of CitiGroup's poor performance in Q4 2007. Are you going to blame Apple on Google's drop of $21.70? The topic title is blatantly biased against the MacBook Air when the original article's title is, "Apple Takes More Hits Following Macworld Announcements". I think we were suppose to have a bias, the same reason we don't use M$ should keep us from being biased against Apple.

"Wall Street shares plunged as another large US bank, JP Morgan, reported a profit loss of 34 percent, and a government report showed inflationary pressures continuing to simmer." --http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/wall_street_braces_for_more_losses_538212

Last edited by Hurmoth on 16 Jan 2008 - 21:45

I thought the profits, market shares, etc only went up for (cr)apple...........................?

THAT'S HOW THEY LIKE REPORTING THINGS

Well said Hurmoth. Unfortunately many people here only ever see one side. The markets took a pounding this week and many tech companies suffered. The stock will go back up. And even if it doesn't the company has had a tremendously successful year and will continue to do so.

if you actually follow apple's stock price prior to and after events like macworld, wwdc and such.. you'll notice that it almost always go up before the event, and go down after the event. in the stock trading world, the phenomenon is called 'buy on rumour, sell on news'. the only time that i can recall when apple's stock price went up after macworld type event was when steve announced boot camp.

So now we have people complaining about no optical drive. First they said PC's would flop because they are no longer shipping with 3.5" floppy drives, zip drives and 5" floppy drives. Now they think the world is coming to an end without the optical drive.

Did anybody watch the keynote where it was stated that this was intended as a secondary mobile unit/desktop unit for people? It's a unit that you can install software from another pc in your home, and then it's all set. All updates can take place wifi, all music and movies can be stored onto the air wirelessly via home networks, business networks, wifi. It does everything you need for someone who just wants to do up documents, email, browse the web, watch movies, listen to music, back up wirelessly, and finally, will fit in your briefcase pocket.

The price is for the form, the cost to reduce part sizes, and of course, Apple's name.

Face facts, people: The Mac Air was hideously overpriced. $1700? For a sub-laptop? And the SSD is extra? Screw that noise, I'll be in my bedroom hugging my Eee PC. Good night, Apple.

Of course it failed to impress. People know that Apple's products are overpriced and that they rely on the wow factor to dupe people. At 1899 CDN this is a major rip-off. I mean for these specs the laptop should have been priced at around $999 but because of the form factor it gained another $1000....Worst of all, the battery is built-in which Apple will charge $125 to replace.

Here is how Apple works:

They release a product that wins people over with esthetics and design that seriously lacks in features compared to other devices in its class but user interface is innovative. They then release updates that slowly enable some of these features that other devices have and make them seem like the cure for cancer.

For Sale:
one(1) used Reality Distortion Field Generator.
Comes standard with integrated battery that may last up to 5 hours.
Worked good up until January 2008.
Call Steve at:
1-555-goapple

It has little to do with the new mac air but more to do because there is a sense in the public that apple are greedy, exploitive of it consumers and generally too arrogant to bear.

There is a hell of difference on what has being going on recently by the windows bashers, the site has become unpleasant. There is no logic in posts except to bash.

I asked you to point out posts where I'd bashed MS.

What you found and thought bashes where I didn't think the ZUNE could beat the Ipod BECAUSE IT WAS ONLY SOLD IN THE US

and that MS should find a proper purpose for the Touch table which I SAID WAS A WONDERFUL TECHNOLOGY

This place is really hitting the dumps especially when one of the admins posts a flame opinion piece which he had to totally rewrite

i wouldn't be surprised, i disappointed with the Macbook Air.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Poor Apple.


Microsoft!

Yet it'll sell like crazy.

What I don't get is that people were complaining about Apple not offering an ultra-mobile before, they wanted Apple to bring one out, and now that Apple's delivered it they don't want it anymore.

This always happens after a keynote.

The reason the stock has dropped is that companies and financial houses bet on the stock on the buildup to MacWorld. Then hoping Apple will pull out something such as the iPhone they think they will get a quick profit from a quick sale.

These companies are in it for the money. A real investment house / investor would look at the keynote and the future potential from Apple announcements.

While the MacBook Air will probably sell well, and get Apple a larger portion of the portable market the launch of that product shouldn't effect the stock price in a negative way. Its not on sale yet, investors will bet money on initial sales to see how the Air plays out over the next year.

The stock price fell because certain investors wanted another iPhone style launch, tons of press, something new and exciting, a subscription model aimed at getting Apple profit + initial sale value. When that didnt happen they wanted to sell and the stock price dropped.

What these short term fools dont realise is that its the movie rental announcement that will over the coming years, help define new markets for the industry and Apple as well. With all major movie companies onboard Apple could pull another iTunes expect this time in the movie rental business.

This would drive the sale of future Apple video products, ipods and phones, along with the halo effect.

Thats what a good investor should look at, not a short term profit from interest in a single product, but a long term stock increase (such as Apple has seen with iPod + iTunes) due to their possible domination of the online Movie sales market.

Apple's stock went down? Last chance to buy under 200$!