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Apple makes great products.  We have three Macs under this roof right now – a MacBook, a Mac mini, and a G4 that belong to my boys.  All three running OS-X of course. 

I have used PCs and windows for years.  Bought my first PC in 86 and first built my own PC in 89.  Before PCs, I owned a Commodore VIC 20, an Atari 400, a Sinclair ZX81, a Radio Shack Model 100, and an Apple II.  I have continued to build my own PC systems over the years.  In January of this year, I built my current system which has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+ CPU running at 3.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, an EVGA 7600 video card with two monitors, over a Terabyte of hard drive storage and running the Windows Vista Ultimate OS – but my next computer will be a MAC.  Compared to OS-X windows is a kludge.  

Recently I predicted that AAPL will gain market share over the next few years.  Yesterday I read Gartner’s Report: Gartner’s Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2008 and Beyond: Going Green and Self-Healing – Ten predictions that herald changes in approach for IT organizations and the people they serve are highlighted for 2008 and beyond.  Gartner says Apple will DOUBLE their market share over the next three years in the US and Western Europe (bigger than the US)!

 Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider published a post this morning “Why Apple Won’t Get Crushed By The Recession” in which he said:

Apple has $20+ billion in cash, no debt, and the highest margins and fastest growth rate in the industry. At $90, after excluding the value of the cash, the stock trades at just under 10X free cash flow, which is an extraordinarily low multiple for a company of this quality. In a market environment like this, the stock could obviously go lower, but it it does, this won’t be because of any mistakes Apple has made.

AAPL is at $97.40 today – a few days ago it was at $88.00, a few months ago it was near $200.00.  As soon as the market recovers, after the election, Apple stock, and Google, will soar.  There is a lot on sale right now in the market due to exuberant FEAR!  This opportunity won’t last.  Warren Buffett is buying, buying, buying.

Gartner Research

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