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Technology Stocks : Apple Tankwatch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (188)	2/24/2011 3:18:39 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32680

AAPL builds some great products but its success with iTunes has left the company confused about where its success lies. Recipe for disaster. While trying to corner the market on data, they may be letting the core business get away from them I don't see that happening, quite yet, as far as my very personal Apple needs are concerned. The MacBook Pro refresh announced today is a perfect example: I'll buy one, when my present one dies. Double zero doubt about that! My concerns are way more far reaching: what will Apple look like and what product magic will it deliver, without Steve Jobs. I work in the imaging arena. I've witnessed many batons handed down, by ex-CEOs to new CEOs, in my three decades in the field. In every single case, corporate memory loss set in. HUGE! The old leader took with him or her the most important, decades old information, contacts, project outlines, thrusts. The new CEO had no clue about any of that. Massive reshuffling followed, with delays, disappointments, new and often disastrous paths painfully taken. With Apple, given its richly priced AAPL market cap and can't miss a step or the stock gets hammered, that is a very real consideration. I think, not so very humbly, as usual. (g)