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  • Gregg Thurman on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - 'Don’t bother with suggestions. I couldn’t Open my Microsoft 365 account either. It wants to set up a Passkey, then says it can’t. Online Help was a waste of time. I’ve deleted both Apps from my iPad and will reluctantly fire up my iMac to access my 365 account.'
  • Gregg Thurman on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - 'I must be the dumbest SOB on the planet. I’ve been build multi-layer, multi-page spreadsheets using Excel for about forever. Today I thought I’d give Numbers a try. What a piece of shit. Is there a formatting secret I should be aware of? It’s certainly not obvious from the icons (I’ve been through them all). Cutting, pasting, constructing formulas, aligning text, formatting numbers. I’m at a point that I’m going to buy Excel 360. I’ve never worked so hard to get an Apple software to work and get no results. Where is the intuitive part?'
  • David Drinkwater on Mac virgins - 'I feel that the PED 3.0 crowd already saw this coming. And it’s just the first week. Let’s see if this trend has legs!'
  • Gregg Thurman on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - 'I wonder how much brand loyalty there is in share positions #2 through #4 and #6. If, and I say again, if Mac NEO took 10% share from the aggregate of that group in the next 3-4 years, Apple could surpass Dell and possibly Acer in market share. I don’t want to be seen as the guy wearing rose colored glasses, but I FEEL the NEO will be the catalyst to achieve that, and maybe sooner than 3 years. The first full quarter of availability in China will be the tell'
  • Stephen Gordon on Mac virgins - 'Went to the Apple Store this week to look at the Neo, and I wasn’t disappointed. Anybody looking for a cheaper alternative will appreciate the build quality.'
  • Gregg Thurman on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - '” I’d expect ‘familiarity with Windows’ to be a requirement for a lot of Tech Support jobs, not just those employed by Microsoft.” Somehow I don’t think the point of the NEO is to train tech support staff. I think it’s more of a low cost (although superior) laptop for those that would like to switch (of which there seem to be a lot), but can’t afford a Mac, just like iPhones in India are for those that want better than Android, but can’t afford a standard iPhone.'
  • Gregg Thurman on Mac virgins - '” THIS is the world wide celebration of Apple’s FIRST 50 years! ” After 50 years, Apple is still crushing it. “We can’t innovate my ass!”'
  • David Emery on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - 'Seriously, though… I’d expect ‘familiarity with Windows’ to be a requirement for a lot of Tech Support jobs, not just those employed by Microsoft.'
  • Steven Philips on Mac virgins - 'THIS is the world wide celebration of Apple’s FIRST 50 years! 🙂'
  • Fred Stein on Mac virgins - 'Screaming my meme, “new to”. This crushes PCs in the price range. And, it DOES NOT cannibalize MacBooks. All run Agentic Edge AI. Just getting started.'
  • Kirk DeBernardi on Mac virgins - 'Big broad smiles — and for layers of reasons — across the board! 🙂 🙂 🙂'
  • Gregg Thurman on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - '~1.4 Billion people. One, or even two million (0.14%), working for Microsoft isn’t going to be that big a deal.'
  • Fred Stein on Apple circles the globe to celebrate its 50th birthday - 'At 50, still delivering “computing for the rest of”.'
  • Fred Stein on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - 'Heck yes to all who cited the Neo in India and all emerging markets. It’s a huge catalyst near term and long term.'
  • David Emery on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - 'On the other hand… How many people in India are employed (directly or indirectly) providing tech support to Windows? One could argue that growing up with a Mac is disadvantageous for getting one of those jobs. 🙂'
  • Robert Paul Leitao on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Index futures are down again this morning and Apple’s share price continues to slide. The shares are off pre-market $1.21 at $247.75. I’m not concerned about today’s trading range. I’m looking out nine months from today and see bargains galore, including Apple, for the patient long-term investor.'
  • Gregg Thurman on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - '”Wait until the Neo lands on the subcontinent.” I’ll wager (again) that Apple was thinking of India, China, Indonesia and a lot more when it decided to build the NEO.'
  • Greg Lippert on Apple circles the globe to celebrate its 50th birthday - 'Free advertising! Genius.'
  • Gregg Thurman on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Whether a company is firing on all eight cylinders or not, isn’t the issue. Today is quadruple witching day and the 3 major indices are all down this week in response. In fact, all 3 indices are down sharply for the last 4 weeks. AAPL has valiantly resisted that trend. My comment about AAPL on Monday is based on investor sentiment illustrated by the options chart above.'
  • Steven Philips on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - 'It feels like the discussions regarding NEO have been looking at the US market. But the non US markets may be where it will have the most impact. Yeah, David, how big is that market? 🙂'
  • David Drinkwater on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - 'I almost went there myself. The article only looks at values and percentages of units sold: this does not identify how well India’s population has been saturated. Wikipedia has India and China in a virtual dead heat at 1.40 billion people. The third place runner-up is USA at 0.34 billion, followed by Indonesia at 0.29 billion. Apple is clearly playing hard in the right places.'
  • Greg Lippert on Premarket: Apple is red - 'It’s been a slow spiral down the drain for a company firing on all cylinders.'
  • Steven Philips on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Or?'
  • David Drinkwater on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - 'Looks like there is a lot of room to grow in the laptop space, so if you also take in the education and cost-sensitivity inputs, the Neo would be very well positioned for growth in India. On the tablet side of the fence, there is not as much room for growth, and it is clearly a race between Apple and Samsung for dominance, but one of the reasons there’s less room for growth now is that Apple had such a strong improvement last year: may that trend continue!'
  • David Emery on Apple's Mac and iPad saw record sales in India last year - 'Remind me again how many people live in India…. 😉'
  • Gregg Thurman on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Monday may be a very positive day for AAPL.'
  • David Emery on Meta Quest VR loses a 'world' weirder than anything Apple ever built — or ever would - 'What he has been good at is establishing the surveillance economy and selling that to advertisers. Back when I was on Facebook (these days I’m proud they threw me off when I wouldn’t sign up for their 2-factor approach that required more info about me than I was willing to give…), every time I’d see an ad on Facebook, before I blocked the advertiser, I’d add them to my personal “defecation roster.” of companies to avoid. I feel the same way about ads on YouTube, but at least those are slightly more distinguishable than the “sponsored content” on Facebook. Now I have all Meta websites blocked at my firewall. Unfortunately, that has cut us off from some relatives who post updates on their baby (born 3 months premature, but doing well) on Instagram.'
  • Gregg Thurman on As Chinese smartphone sales fell, Apple's China sales grew - 'Apple’s recent low cost entries is going to have a very big, and very negative, impact on the secondary market for 3 or more years old Apple products'
  • David Emery on Horace Dediu recommends - 'A friend said, “Every company building an agent framework was just made obsolete by OpenClaw.”'
  • Gregg Thurman on Horace Dediu recommends - '”Runs in the terminal” Bzzzt. I’m outta here. I’ll wait until Apple incorporates it (if they ever do) into OSX.'