Apple stock up 75% in 2009
‘Nuff said. The iPhone is kicking butt. Now imagine what these numbers will look like when Apple introduces the iPad and starts to add camera and microphone capabilities to the iPod! Hang on tight.
The Journal writes that “the iPod growth story is over, tough times are ahead.” I’m not so sure about that. The iPod touch and iPhone are full fledged computers. For $199. Several mothers I’ve talked to have purchased iPod Touches for just that purpose — to provide Apple computers to their kids for a couple hundred bucks. Apple has moved to another playing field altogether. They make the netbook, ThinkPad, and all the other Windows boxes look antiquated. The next wave of computing is in your hand, in the cloud.
I’ve been writing software on the iPhone. Objective C screams on the little processor and the local libraries and facilities are simply amazing. It blows away all the other mobile operating systems I’ve tried, and I’ve tried a bunch (Brew, J2ME, Symbian, Nokia, Blackberry).
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