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Why Apple Will Thrive In a Lousy PC Market

October 8, 2010

Yes folks, the PC industry is still in the dumps. We saw two very important things happen this week: 1) IDC said that tablets like the Apple (AAPL) iPad will drag hard-drive demand down by 2-3% this year. 2) Both Samsung and Micron (MU) noted weak DRAM memory pricing trends, which are dragging on both [...]

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Amazon Stocking Apple iPad

October 4, 2010

Good news – the iPad is now available for order directly from Amazon.com. Forget this Amazon (AMZN) Kindle commercial – Amazon doesn’t hate the iPad enough to not sell the hottest selling consumer-electronics device on the planet: As of the time I’m writing this (October 4th, 2010 at 1:40 pm), Amazon has the 32 & [...]

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The Apple iPad: How Well is it Selling?

September 22, 2010

As readers of my columns on Minyanville may know, I am a huge fan of using the Internet, the phone, and store visits to perform channel checks. I don’t like to take a company’s or the media’s word about anything – I like to get out in the real world to figure out what’s hot [...]

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