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Joe Wilcox

Apple levitates: Financial quarter, by the numbers

January 26, 2010

Joe Wilcox goes through Apple’s numbers for the quarter thoroughly (and dispassionately – something that I appreciate when it comes to numbers).
What sticks out for me is that Apple has managed a pretty astounding feat: preserving unit sales (or expanding them in many product lines) while pushing margins even higher, something that should barely be [...]

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Tech rumours and wish fulfilment: The Google Phone and the Apple Tablet

January 3, 2010

There’s always been a hype-cycle, particularly with products from Apple, but something I’ve noticed recently is how the hype-cycle has changed into a world of fantasy.
The two best examples of this lately are the Google Nexus One and (apparently forthcoming) Apple Tablet. You see a simple pattern: In blog posts and forums the hype gets [...]

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How Microsoft is snatching Windows 7 defeat from the jaws of victory

August 6, 2009

I made the point with rather more swearing on Twitter yesterday, but Joe Wilcox says it without the bad language:
“After commandingly executing Windows 7 development, Microsoft had run off the track right before the finish line. Suddenly, Windows 7 is a disaster potentially like its predecessor. Could anything be worse than Vista?”
What’s the cause of [...]

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Watch out, Mac-using analysts: Ballmer knows where you live

July 31, 2009

Via Joe Wilcox, comes this bit of Steve Ballmer’s speech to financial analysts:
“We have low share, by the way, in the investor audience. I can see the Apple logos versus the PC logos. So we have more work to do, more work to do. Our share is lower in this audience than the average audience. [...]

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