Where do you get your hands on his research? Does briefing.com have it?

If you have to ask, you can't afford it!

Come on, that's not helpful. And I'm not poor.

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Where do you get your hands on his research? Does briefing.com have it?

These guys make public commnents to get your attention, then they (or their employers) will be glad to sell you the full report--or, did you think that the report would be free? It might not be worth very much, but it's not free.

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Come on, that's not helpful. And I'm not poor.

Neither Biff or I have bothered to look up the exact price NOR do we know how much money you have, but we don't need to.

These types of reports generally cost a couple of thousand dollars. I feel equally as sure as Biff: If you have a few thousand bucks to drop on something like this then you would be the sort of person who would already know where to get them from.

We're not being "helpful" because we don't know the answer to your question and I don't think I'll know that answer any time soon, either. It's not something on my shopping list!

Furthermore, his report wouldn't say anything you can't already find on your own.

Exactly. Thats the important part. Most analyst reports are just bad predictions based on misinterpretation of the same rumors and news stories we all read. Although, to be fair, Mr. Wu seems to be of a much higher caliber than other Apple related analysts.

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I'm not going to look up the details of Mr. Wu's company's business relations, but I will quickly tell you how these reports are typically obtained. They are usually bought as "research" by very large investment firms through a brokerage. The brokerages are the ones who typically do the actual work of finding and selling shares of stock for the investment companies. The investment company pays the brokerage for its services and the cost of obtaining the research is typically spread out as part of the cost of executing trades on millions of shares each day. Thats why these reports cost thousands of dollars. That's just a drop in the bucket. These are not for mortal people.

MS is in this for the long term. They'll keep getting better each year, no matter how long it takes. And anyways, eventhough I'm a Apple fan, I reather see sells go to USA companies (even MS) than over seas. So, I hope MS takes sales from the none-iPod products.

Ummm.... The Zune is currently manufactured by Toshiba. Last I checked they aren't a US company.

Zune has no chance in the market. Neither does the PC, it's all over it's Apple's industry now, and everyone else is just trying to compete with them.

When you think of it, it's always been that way. The only reason IBM did the PC was Apple was making a killing off the Apple II. The only reason M$ did windows was to compete with Apple for the Mac (Bill knew if he didn't that there would be no way DOS could compete with it for long). Now, M$ is desperately trying to catch up with the iPod. So, they farmed out the job to Toshiba much like IBM did to M$ in the old days.

It's too late, game over, thanks for playing...