Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) ended the day up 66 cents or 0.82%, finishing at $81.08. Again this has been a rather stable week for Apple, no doubt people are focusing more on the upcoming winter sales season before making heavier bets on Apple.Steve Jobs ever solid high profile in the IT world continues on: ComputerWeekly just named Jobs one of the top 10 greatest IT people. The article is a nod to the turnaround Apple has undergone since Jobs returned to the helm of the company, and shows how integral Jobs is to Apple.
Despite those media kudos, the MacObserver does note some recent hits Apple has taken to its image with the MacBook random shutdowns. Two rebuttals can be found to the concerns raised. One is that Apple's quality control is slipping, which can be disproved by checking out the last consumer reports analysis, where Apple's QC and customer satisfaction lead the pack. The second is the specific worry about the MacBook, which Apple has released a fix for.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-01-2006 @ 2:56PM
john deramus said...
appl is trading as a retail stock, if you own it get out by november 15, best tech short out there, will be 60 or less by december
11-05-2006 @ 11:26PM
Scott Goldstein said...
In the past 3 months I have purchased three MacBook laptops (all at an Apple Company store... ALL have been defective.
The first was MacBook Pro refurbished by Apple. The machine wasn't even reset .. it was configured as it was to last owner and basically non functioning. It carried a tag saying factory refurbished to original standards. Retuned it for a new one.. see below.
My daughter purchased a Macbook for college and it randomly shut off. Took 10 days for the repair.
Now my 4 week old Macbook Pro shuts down randomly and in doing a net search this seems to be a problem for almost 20% of them.
There appears to little or no quality control there. And this cuts to the heart of their repuation.
Heading in tommow for yet another repair.