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Because of the first worm, too many people were suddenly starting to think about and investigate the possibility of writing a Mac OS X worm. Publishing the exploit as fast as possible is the best for all Apple users. I think at the end of the week, every Apple user will know about it.

I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early. They're certainly the best for visual stuff and film-directing.

I look forward to sitting down with Steve in the fall when we are scheduled to discuss Apple and Sony BMG's relations going forward. I think Steve has done a great job on behalf of the industry, and in the months ahead we have lots of challenges to conquer together.

I have been fielding quite a few calls about Apple's filing of the 'Mobile Me' patent. Folks have been speculating about a phone from Apple for more than a year. Being that I am a wireless analyst, I don't follow Apple as closely as others do. What I do know though, is that we are not likely to know until Apple wants us to know. They are pretty good at big surprises. Do I think they are developing a phone? Probably. Probably somewhere in their labs, there are prototypes of phones. Whether or not they bring one to market commercially is another story. Whether or not they will do so on their own is another open question. Hard to imagine carrier subsidies on a device unless there are revenues to be earned through downloaded services and content.

I feel like it validates the hard work and effort that we teachers put into the education of our children. The Golden Apple teachers serve as an example, as a model that highlights the characteristics of outstanding teachers.

For Sony to succeed, they're going to have to come up with as compelling a link between the store and the device as Apple has.

From 1978 when I bought my Apple II, for the next four years I just threw myself into PCs, and did lots of things - I had a little consulting practice, I formed an Apple users group in the New England area which was, of course, the first one on the East Coast, and I started a tiny cottage software business doing a statistics and graphics package for the Apple II.

Fundamentally, I think that many of the reports, from companies like Intel, Apple and IBM do portray a relatively sound tech environment. But people are anxious right now generally.

I don't think any option should be taken off the table. School choice is as American as apple pie, in my opinion. . . . The world is made richer and fuller and more vibrant when you have choices.

If anything, it makes it better for Apple users because it gets more people into the Apple fold.

If Apple were to devote time and resources to this project, it could definitely be done,

If Apple opened up their standards, they would sell more, not less,

I don't underestimate the work that has to be done to make a successful transition. But I'd rather bet for Apple than against Apple.

I expected this in a couple years, but not today, ... Going up to Apple Valley (last week) beating Johnstown, who to that point was undefeated in league play, was a big boost for the kids. We knew we could play with these guys. I'm glad to have practice tomorrow, I can tell you that.

For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.

If what Apple provides as a hardware platform is interesting to the open-source community, it would not surprise me very much that a group of people will find a way to port Linux to that hardware in short order.

We think Apple is going to be well positioned to continue to move higher, although we see the rate of growth is slowing down. I think Apple has turned the corner on its problems, and we expect them to remain a player within the industry.

To explain this change to employees, Microsoft hosted an internal event with CEO Steve Ballmer, chairman Bill Gates, Johnson, Allchin, Raikes, and Bach. Most of the discussion and Q & A that happened that day is largely irrelevant to Nexus readers, but the company did take one impromptu question about competition with Apple Computer that I thought you'd enjoy. Here's a transcript of that portion of the session, and some photos taken from a video of the event,

Hats off to Apple Valley. They played excellent.

Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her lover;And the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

Jobs has said nary a word on behalf of important social issues, reserving his talents of persuasion for selling Apple products.

It behooves Apple to protect its position because the question is 'How high is up?' in terms of what Apple Corps wants. It's better for them to roll the dice.

It could go to 300, it could go to 200, ... It really depends on the frenzy that it meets this morning. It certainly could be worth $100 or $200 a share very easily; it has established a real brand for itself; it has almost 70 percent of the marketplace, due to its excellent marketing, it has really out-paced Windows, and it hasn't made the mistake that Apple Computer made way back when: It has an open platform instead of a closed platform. Certainly with today's IPO market, they picked a very fortuitous time to go public. The average IPO this year is up 150 percent.

I think the (PPI and core PPI) numbers will make the Fed a bit more comfortable that the status quo is fine, ... The core PPI is the one they really care about. It's really telling us that the inflation story is not running away from us. That doesn't mean the debate won't be heated. But this number does tilt the apple cart.

I thought at the start of the year we had a chance to maybe get Apple (Valley). I know it's early, and these scores were quite high today, but it was a nice win for us.

Last night, Apple pre-announced a massive shortfall in expected revenue for the current quarter as well as for the remainder of the fiscal year. This does not come as a surprise to us, although the magnitude of the shortfall surpassed even our low expectations, ... We believe it is important to note that we have been much more negative regarding the Apple story than the Street consensus over the past several months.

I think that Apple has revolutionized every other consumer industry; why not television? The complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated. So it seems exactly the sort of problem that if anyone is going to change the experience of what the first principles are, it is going to be Apple.

I think Apple would be more of an ordinary company without him--it would be much less audacious, daring and artistic.

I think Apple did the right thing. The fact that a script gets executed automatically had to be fixed immediately. They just have to go further.

It has been difficult for competitors to displace Apple because they haven't offered anything different.

I think they can get by. You put a bad apple in with a bunch of good apples, and it's just a matter of time before the other apples spoil.

I think they are going straight at the ultimate goal of digital convergence. Apple already has a powerful media portal on the Internet and they need to extent the virtual portal into your living room.

It is an opportunity for Apple to go out and evangelize the new Intel processors to developers and nudge them to get more of their applications out of the door.

I think the results from AMD and Apple after the close should help boost sentiment toward technology stocks, which have been on a bit of a roll for a few weeks,

Over the past two years, Apple has clearly been winning the battle for red-hot buzz in the industry. No doubt, Gates and Company are sick of it. Now, they are taking no prisoners in their efforts to return Microsoft to its place as the Arbiter of All Things Relevant Online.

Our focus is on building awareness for the new platform and offering targeted training and education to Apple partners to enable them to offer winning managed services for the Mac and mixed environments. The N-central 5.1 platform will open the playing field and make managed services a profitable reality for Apple Specialists, as well as solution providers servicing a multiple operating system environment.

Our view is that Apple has had very good growth over the past couple of years, largely driven by upgrade cycle to its existing installed base.

Right now, the chamber has one apple ruining the tree and that is bad, ... She got my money for the T-shirts, and she knew she wasn't going to give me the business.

Plant at least two apple trees. This provides cross pollination. The trees don't have to be the same variety. Written planting instructions will be provided when trees are purchased.

Previously Apple's operating system, Mac OS X, was untargeted by virus writers, but two worms aimed at the OS changed all that. Apple had been bragging about its security record pretty loudly and now has to eat its words.

People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'

Steve Jobs has done a good job of selling, and the Apple interface is still superior, but he doesn't have critical mass.

Steve Jobs and Apple are going to be toast. There's going to be a completely different landscape.

Steve and his team have done an incredible job in making Apple once again the very best in the world. I have been particularly impressed with the new Mac OS X operating system and the company's commitment to the open source movement. And I am especially looking forward to working with and learning from the great board members who have guided this legendary company's inspiring resurgence.

Sports betting is the rock of Gibraltar. It's American, like apple pie. That will always be there. People love to bet on it. People love to bet on their football games.

Stanford has been fortunate to partner with Apple in a project that allows us to share the intellectual and cultural life of the university with our alumni.

Some people are so devoted to products from Apple Computer that they forget it's just a company, not your friend. So it may do things to protect its stockholders and ensure its profitability that won't match your expectations. To generalize the concept: Take the price of a new product. You may regard it as too expensive, lacking the features that you want. But Apple's financial and product people consider the costs of manufacturing, the profits they require to cover manufacturing and R&D expenses, including paychecks for the thousands of people who depend on the company for their livelihood, and produce a figure that satisfies their needs, even if you'd rather play $100 less. As for that feature you want, marketing may feel that the right number customers won't pay extra for it, that you might find it in a third party utility, and that, as they say, is that.

Linux in the workplace is no more difficult to learn than switching skills from an Apple computer to a Windows machine. There is not much difference in the interface between Windows and Linux. For a new user, Linux is just as easy, if not easier.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

I wonder if it isn't the impact of Apple and other players,

It has recently come to our attention that Apple Computers' new television commercial for the Intel chip features a shot-for-shot recreation of our video for 'Such Great Heights' made by the same filmmakers responsible for the original. We did not approve this commercialization and are extremely disappointed with both parties that this was executed without our consultation or consent.

I thought it's two birds with one stone ? to lose weight and to prove a point for the little fat people, ... Just because they accidentally put an apple pie in my bag instead of my apple dippers doesn't mean I'm going to say, 'Oh, I can eat the apple pie.'

The 38th Annual Scenic Drive welcomes the world to enjoy its villages, parks, apple orchards, bridges, and more during the event,

The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.

That's the one thing that can upset this apple cart. We would focus more on energy prices if we got something that was out of line with consensus.

Microsoft and Apple have always had a love/hate relationship.

We haven't seen anything that looks and feel like an Apple product yet.

You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.

While Apple has done the best job to date, not everybody is ready to just throw in with Apple. Nor are they willing to do so with Microsoft and their store or Real and their store. In some cases, they'd like to do without the middleman and sell direct to customers.

While Apple added a checkpoint to the downloading and execution process, they did not eliminate this vulnerability. If a user can be tricked into opening a file that looks like a picture, the user may actually be opening a malicious script.

We expect Apple to broaden its use of Intel processors with the likely introduction of new low-end and mid-range notebooks and also a likely Mac Mini home entertainment platform based on Intel architecture.

We figure this is about a $1 billion - $1.5 billion industry and we are at least eight to ten times bigger than our nearest competitor. In other words, there's a whole lot of that apple left to eat.

Viruses emerging for the Mac OS X platform is headline news for Apple fans, but they are currently posing far from the level of threat that Windows users face every day. No-one should panic, but this is an indication that hackers are showing an increased interest in targeting the platform.

We have tried to reach a settlement through good faith negotiations and regret that our efforts have been in vain. Despite very clear provision in our contracts, EMI persist in ignoring their obligations and duty to account fairly and with transparency. Apple and the Beatles are, once again, left with no choice but to sue EMI.

Time and again, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gets grilled when he introduces digital-music products. When the iPod came out in October, 2001, critics complained the $400 unit was hopelessly overpriced. Many said the same thing when Apple unveiled the iPod Mini in early 2004, arguing that consumers would never fork over $250 for just a few gigabytes of storage. And a year later, some naysayers called the iPod Shuffle plain silly, given its lack of a screen to navigate through songs.

Today's news was basically an expansion of Apple's digital home strategy. In the 1980s, Sony had a stronghold in terms of consumer electronics. Now Apple is doing the same thing.

The problem is, to be at that nirvana, Apple would have to have the ISVs increase their investment on Apple hardware, at least in the transition. That is very difficult for Apple.

We all recognize there are not enough ways to cross the river. There are just not enough ways into Apple Valley as we need.

We are committed to helping viewers enjoy the wide breadth of our programs across an equally wide range of devices and distribution models. Apple has developed a distribution platform that is attractive to consumers while at the same time providing the safeguards against theft that are so important to us and to every content provider. We are pleased to partner with them in this new venture.

We're not seeing a lot of follow-through in the Nasdaq. You're not seeing a dramatic weakening in the index, but Apple created a bit of a drag for tech stocks, and we haven't seen buyers really step up to the plate.

The political turmoil in Iran turned the mood from positive to negative going into the week and that seems to be coloring people's interpretation of the earnings. My sense with Apple is that in the current mood of the market, no news would have been good enough to support the stock.

The people at Apple fully understand the interaction between musicians and their audience.

We planted 150 pawpaw seedlings and 50 apple trees.

We sent Apple a letter asking that they acknowledge and remedy the problem. They chose to not even respond and left us no choice but to bring this case.

We still have a couple thousand people split between hardware and software. When you look back at the people that originally created the operating system, it was a small team. We've done creative things at Apple typically in small teams.

We added a 1949 Florence stove, which used a combination of gas and oil. They used it to heat the house. The actual original stove was out rusting in the apple orchard, so we found one to match. We spied one outside someone's house and asked them about it, and then we got it.

The proponents have on their side something that is widely popular. Conceptually, this is sort of apple pie.

We believe Apple is having some difficulty building enough to meet demand, but we are not too concerned as we believe this is a good problem to have instead of building too many for no demand.

The deal says, you stick to computers and we'll stick to music. This is a simple case. They advertise exclusive music for sale with the Apple logo. They are selling music.

The experience isn't going to be radically different for the Apple user after this. There will be some adjustment, some tweaks here and there, but it is not going to be a dramatically different experience.

Well, that was interesting. I just thought I'd try to bask a little longer in the afterglow of yesterday's firestorm over my simple declaration that my wife and I had a hard time getting an Apple product up and running with anywhere near the simplicity that lore would have them possess. I managed to post more than 180 comments and there were another 80 or so that were either too obscene, too repetitive or just plain too many to put up before I turned off the 'comments' feature. I'll attempt to summarize and respond to the main threads of the, um, conversation.

There are a lot of reasons why Apple -- and all companies -- need to make these processes as transparent as possible. More basic though, not having them or trying to circumvent them shows a lack of respect for their customers.

We view this keynote as a milestone and catalyst as it could set the tone for Apple and technology in 2006.

We view this as positive for Apple as it opens a new market to the company and greatly expands the (potential market) for Intel-based Macs. This will be a particular benefit for business applications where users need to run Windows for certain applications.

We arrived at Penn Station, took the Amsterdam Avenue street car to the end of the line. There was a frame house my mother rented for four dollars a month, and all around it were apple orchards,

We contend that Apple has done next to nothing to inform consumers regarding these issues.

We're not looking to trade an apple for an apple. If we're looking to do anything, it would be to trade a little of the future for today.

With Apple Remote Desktop 3 you can easily manage an entire network of Mac computers.

With Apple Remote Desktop 3, we've delivered powerful innovations that make it even easier and more affordable to manage Macs.

The question on everyone's lips is - when will we see the next one, and will it have a more malicious payload. Apple Mac users need to be just as careful about protecting their computers with anti-virus software, firewalls and security patches as their friends and colleagues using Windows.

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

The only thing we can expect is that Apple will continue to innovate and surprise.

There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.

To celebrate the occasion, we are serving free apple crisp with each meal for the month of February.

The PowerPC systems that are available today have at least another two years of life left. Apple will support those machines with the next version of its operating system, so if you buy a PowerPC machine, it's still a good investment.

There are a lot of tech companies in the Bay Area that are setting the pace. Apple is on a major upswing and Hewlett-Packard is doing well in printers and visual technologies, and giving Dell a run for its money in personal computers.

The price has nothing to do with costs, so the sellers have to grope around for price points that the public can live with and that will make the company enough money to pay their acquisition and royalty costs. Certainly, Apple knows that if they raise prices too fast, 'free' will become more attractive.

While it is a good thing that Apple is taking steps to protect its margins, we believe that Apple did this very reluctantly, as rising prices are a rarity in the PC industry.