They’ve implemented a short-term strategy that sacrifices long-term results. They want to create enough brand equity to withstand a competitive threat.

The other issue for H-P is going to be the competitive positioning, … Are they continuing to lose share to the likes of Dell?

This was really dumb. They are paying that kind of money for a company with no real profits and one product. I’m stunned.

This will happen, and when it does, Apple will double its market share.

There is a certain insanity out there where everything is so focused on quarterly results that people miss the big picture, which is this company continues to do extremely well.

I don’t think the investors did the math on that move,

(Tech) departments aren’t going to change.

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It’s a wonderful way to bring an honest part of Britain to the U.S., and it’s a way to help me remember Katherine, because I don’t have a grave for her.

Gateway is embarking on the most dramatic renovation of its business model in the company’s history,

The religion has changed. Apple is saying we have the chance to really build the Macintosh platform, and although there are risks, we’re going to do it.

Are they going to have Victoria’s Secret selling underwear?

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It’s his heart and soul, it’s kicking ass all over the world and becoming a huge brand. He would be really reluctant to leave it now.

The earnings number may not mean much in this particular report,

With sales now, it’s not a signal that tech companies are about to fall apart. Executives want to diversify away from having their money being tied up in one asset.

We’ve been waiting a year for some sign of a turnaround in IT spending, and we haven’t seen it. Any kind of reinforcement of that message tends to have a depressing effect on tech stocks.

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Clearly, financial guidance would be very useful at this stage since we’re really shooting in the dark. If we get nothing more than financial guidance that would all be just a bonus to me.

[McNealy has] wasted so much energy on bashing Microsoft, … It’s been a distraction.

Such an increase would translate into almost one million additional sales, equivalent to a 22 per cent increase in Apple’s 2005 Mac shipments.

If ISS comes out against [the merger], not all but many will follow, … Then 35 to 38 percent are against the deal just off the bat.

I think they need to be factual. It’s too close in people’s minds, … `Based on a true story’ should not happen here.

Do you find a debate about Nazism at Auschwitz? Do you find a debate about the North and the South at Gettysburg?

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an honest, straightforward man.

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn’t mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative – get songs for free.

The ‘halo effect’ is clearly alive and well.

By process of deduction, that’s what it has to be,

It’s one more step to this hole not being here. It’s one more step to recovery. It’s not just to show that we’re rebuilding, it’s important to rebuild.

I don’t want to play into his hands, I want to be smarter than that.

They’re growing at three to four times the personal computer market,

We are very, very concerned about revisionist history. While we that lived through it are there, we want this thing nailed down in the next five years.

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You are starting out with a market share of 2 or 3 percent and maybe going to a market share of 6 or 7. Apple is not going to take over the world.