RC, remember to hold onto your AAPL stock for at least a year or else you'll have to pay short-term capital gains tax!

The mounting quality problems with G5s and iPods will be coming home to roost soon. The MS music store will be the final death blow, sell your stock now before reality hits.

A troll behind his window speaks
but foolish words he doth release.

RC, if I sell my stock now I will make a substantial profit from when I bought it. Are you recommending that Apple Stock Holders do that? Kewl. Thanks, that is very insightful.

I would not worry about quality problems though. Just look at the latest service pack from MS. Reality still hasn't caught up with those people, so I think I will wait.

Hey, great quote!

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Guest wrote:
A troll behind his window speaks
but foolish words he doth release.

I only bought 200 shares at $14.85 for my IRA and had the money for more.

It's a tough life RC . . .

WHen TMS first came out it was not a money maker - huge investment when you consider the efforts to integrate with iTunes AND port it to Windows. A good investment at the time, however, when you consider the iPod sales.

Today is a different situation. The original investment would has been recovered (or soon will be) and TMS is now in a position of generating profits. As long as the iPod is leading the market it will be feeding new customers to TMS and building revenues. The only caution I see is that a lot of people will move their CDs to iTunes and use TMS to fill in gaps.

It's still a huge market and the only serious competitor I see on the horizon is MS. If they come out with their normal software (like SP2) they will have a very hard time converting iPod users.

Reality Check- what is your background-you seem to have a lot of negative apple views/pro windows views. Have you used an apple before? An ipod? Have you compared apple software like FCP to windows stuff such as Premiere? Ever used a G5,powerbook for a week to see how it operates? Ever go see how other mac network admins run their networks? You seem so solidly locked in your way of thinking-it seems to me that you must have had a horrible experience at some point. Curious if you ever bothered to experience the mac side or if you've just excepted what microsoft tells you. Your very closed-minded.

It's no use asking the troll questions, guest. He doesn't respond. In fact he probably doesn't ever come back to a story after he drops his load.

Think of him as an extremely ugly Chatty Cathy Doll. You can pull its string by writing a new story and it will regurgitate a monotonous stream of hatred but you can't have a conversation with it.

-Dan

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It's still a huge market and the only serious competitor I see on the horizon is MS. If they come out with their normal software (like SP2) they will have a very hard time converting iPod users.

Microsoft is coming late to the party and the lack of iPod support for the Microsoft music store is a serious competitive disadvantage. The Xbox has been a loser for the Redmond company and the company's other efforts outside of operating systems and productivity products has checkered results.

I don't see Microsoft as the biggest competitor to the iTunes Music Store. I see the slow industry transition to online music sales and the widespread theft of music via of the Internet as the immediate threats to the continued swift growth of iTMS.