Harsh Light Shines on iPhone, iPod Sales

$600 a share? Keep dreaming. Don't you guys even realize the next great depression has just begun? Food and energy prices at all time high while home prices are plunging. And the stock market is in its 7th year of bear market. When it's all said and done, we'll be paying $10 for a gallon of milk and our unemployment rate will hit 25%.

bought my first ipod ever. the itouch. nice device, works easy enough but... hate everything else, hate that you can only use Itunes, hate that you cant just drop in music files directly from my computer, hate that I have to load songs into itunes first, hate that I cant use both of my computers to update the music file, I have to only use one computer, maybe there is a way, but guess what, the itouch doesnt come with any instructions, not even how to turn it on. Since I never had an ipod or used itunes it took me forever to figure out how to even sync it with itunes..I almost gave up and was going to just return it. After I saw all the limitation that described above, I wish I did. Even though my old mp3 player had no features and didnt have that much memory, at least I could do what I wanted and didnt get all of Apples applications shoved down my throat oh yeah, it also came with instructions. you may think I'm some old fart, nope, I'm 34 and a web developer and I will never buy another ipod or any other Apple ever again. Oh yeah, ever hear about Microsoft and Antitrust.

I know it's news when Apple (which was written off a few years ago) doesn't "blow away" estimates or when Goggle doesn't have it's regular 50% jump in revenues - we should all be so lucky. When you're hot you're hot.

iPhones and iPods are a meager, fractional, just plain small slice of the revenue picture for Apple. To reduce the market cap of this thriving business by 40% over the last few weeks is idiotic. Check the Mac sales - that's where the growth, market potential, market share possibilities, and revenue is all coming from.

^ please kill yourself

Right, lemme' get this straight. There are two guys seating and BS'ing about Apple and they are both sitting in front of Apple laptop computers! Why, I'd believe anything they say! Just like the dummy who thinks Apple stock is headed for $600.00 a share. P.T.Barnum was right! There's a sucker(read that as "fool") born every minute!

Apple has played their customers as suckers for years - any other company making their net profit margins would be considered a pirate enterprise. No one but the faithful Apple customers would not complain about being ripped of and their freedom of choice o restricted. Pay the company store folks. And like it, even if their crappy ipod can't get FM reception.

other mp3 players an phone offer the same features as the iphone for 1/2 the price i thing the hole ipod and iphone is a fade and if people would shope around they would find better deals for both. I would have to say that apple has done a great job of advertising for there products.

i just bought the iphone, it is a great item however it does NOT work very well with MSN Outlook and you have to go through many hoops to get gmail forwarding. This is a huge disadvantage and wager to say MSN will come up with their own iphone lookalike....I love this phone but not the headaches that come with it. ATT does a poor job in educating the iphone buyer and the directions inside the phone are poorly written and leave much out. Apple Tech Support even agree and have to walk you through the starting process.

Agghhh these guys are paid by some hedgie to tak about short term weakness as that lends itself toward their positions. The whole market is rigged.

my daughter has just brought an iphone to israel (someone brought it from the states) we discovered that the hottest industry at the moment in tel-aviv electronics firms is opening up these phones. now it works with hebrew and it's brilliant, its connectivity to wifi networks is rapid and the touch screen apple-stuff is great. i don't need any of this myself, i need e-mail connectivity to office and i haven't tested the iphone for that yet. having said that it looks like the in-thing for young people to have.

where was apple before the ipod????? they were nothing in the industry. they make a good mp3 player, and thats it.

where was apple before the ipod????? they were nothing in the industry. they make a good mp3 player, and thats it.

One word - RECESSION. What kind of idiot would spend $650 on a 2 gig. upgrade on their iMac? That's the price Apple charges on their website. Yeah- I am not lying, it's on their site. For that price, I can get a decent Windows PC with the 2 gig. upgrade($50 Newegg). The price premium isn't what it use to be when everone is poor. Of course, if the Recession is a lied made up by Democrats(Core Apple users) to just get one elected in November, then that's another story.

I think it is funny they are talking about this with Apple Macbook Pros in front of them. Everyone overlooks that their computer sales are growing like crazy.

I think it is funny they are talking about this with Apple Macbook Pros in front of them. Everyone overlooks that their computer sales are growing like crazy.

If you are an investor stop listening to these idiots on line. Go to an apple store , look around, they are MOBBED! These stores were built during the last recession 2000-2001. These idiots said apple was crazy to build retail outlets..."look at Gateway, it will never work, Jobs is crazy...etc..." What emotional investors want is Jobs to speak....they want to hear contracts in China, Japan, Brazil, Chili, , Korea, Austrailia, Norway, India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Russia, Poland, Sweden, my there are a lot of countries on this planet who DONT have iphones yet. Second generation, third generation, iphone extreme, imac extreme, icar, .....I would sell your Apple stock if you dont own a mac. Do you own research , I have since 1992. lkmd

Munster is to Apple as Blodget is to Yahoo. Short both.

Some of us, although it may be a small contingency, won't get an iphone until our current contract with another provider ends. I hope to get an iphone this year, but I am not going to pay for two providers or forfeit my current contract at a huge penalty cost. I was disappointed somewhat that Apple signed a two year contract with only one provider. There is nothing like an APPLE and more and more people are buying apple computers. I have owned an apple since the first 128 k. I've tried windows and have virtual type windows, but I find navigating that software much more confusing than apple software and products.

Great company, and the stock is now selling at a great price... their products are fantastic (all of them!)... This is a screaming buy at $120... Once the iPhone comes out with G3 and an exchange synch tool, they will sell gazillions of them and blow the doors off of RIM, MOT, and the ever so weak PALM... this is such a screaming buy just based on Mac sales ramping up (even with weak ipod sales). Itunes, iPhone, AppleTV, etc., are all gravy... This tock will hit 200 by 2009!