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Listed below are comments made by flynnstudio72 between Tuesday, 13th January 2009 and Friday, 23rd January 2009.

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Steve Jobs Health Hoax - Again 2:29pm on 23 Jan 2009 Go read Tim Cook's transcript from the conference call. Everything Apple is and stand's for is laid for all to see.

This is just propaganda and really you have to ask 'who benefits' from trying to discredit Apple in this way?

Regardless, it doesn't actually make a shred of difference though does it because when you go to an Apple store and hold a Unibody Macbook in your hands you just go 'Wow, this really is something else!'
Tech industry gloom 1:45pm on 23 Jan 2009 Microsoft's cost of sales are such that a further 20% decline in revenue will require another 20,000 plus layoff. Not much in 2009 can stop that happening. This could create a crisis within MS that could lead anywhere...not least mass product division closures.

At the very least, we are going to see the socialist orientated free OS's like Linux begin to take huge market share from MS through '09 and '10. Corporations who have the skill base to use them will happily jump on the zero cost industrial enterprise solutions that Linux offers.

Apple will, as ever, remain unaffected - content with the top end 10-20% of the market. It's beautifully engineered hardware integrated uniquely in a way no other company can with it's exquisitely designed software will continue to the the best solution for those who can both afford it and recognise it's inherent advantages. Put simply there will always be people with enough money and sense to buy the best.

Considering that Apple are continuing to invest billions in R&D when all other companies are trimming back I think that at the end of '09 the technology gap between Apple and the rest of the tech world will be undeniable. Snow Leopard's advanced multi-core 'Grand Central' technology (and Open CL) alone will be make it an irresistible force.

Windows 7 simply being the fixed 'Vista' release that should have been out in 2007.
Is Apple recession proof? 8:21pm on 22 Jan 2009 Quote, "It is difficult to see what the next trick will be."

That's just the point. They single-handedly created the iPod market, then they re-invented it with the iPod Touch market.

Nobody saw either of them coming.

I imagine the same will be said again..

As for the Macs : I like my Macbook Pro more than any piece of technology I've ever owned. It's a pleasure to use - and it simply never infuriates me.

Those who can afford it - and there is a significant price premium - never regret it.
Taxpayers' short-term loans to business 8:02pm on 13 Jan 2009 Re 118 : PammyAnny

HI PammyAnny,

Thanks for your efforts but that doesn't specifically answer each ( or any) of my questions.

If you, (or anyone else with a high level of understanding), could apply your knowledge and understanding specifically to those seven points raised in post 107 I would be extremely grateful. Nobody I know can answer them and I know some pretty smart people! I usually just get a conciliatory "I don't know what's going on"....
Taxpayers' short-term loans to business 5:16pm on 13 Jan 2009 I'm confused about the way we taxpayers are endlessly guaranteeing loans - and every day I ( we) seem to be making more guarantee's....

Sorry If I sound thick but please can someone answer these basic and sincerely asked questions for me...( I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to know)

1) Are we the public acting like 'gold reserves' now? Is Britain a 'virtual' bank vault with each person acting like £50,000 of gold bullion? Is that ethical, legal? Why does it work here and not say, in India where they have far more people and so can theoretically create vastly more 'virtual bullion'?

2) If we are collectively the guarantors for current debt on future tax then if the loans are ever called in how can we pay whoever calls them in? Do taxes stop paying for Hospitals and instead go to pay these bankers or do they repossess our homes, take our cars?

3) If in answer to 2 you say 'don't worry' the loan will never get called in then why are they even necessary?

4) Who can call in a loan like that anyway?

5) Who is 'creating' the money that were guaranteeing and will it actually get spent or is it just 'theoretical'. I.E where is it coming from? Is it just 'printed' or typed into a computer screen as 'being created now' when I press enter?

6) If it gets spent or loaned, then do we the taxpayer get the profit from the interest that charged on it ? i.e some kind of dividend from the companies we lend it to who have used it to make more money? 5% on £600 billion is a fair profit is it not?

7) Where did I sign a contract agreeing that I would be a guarantor to this loan? How, as a British citizen, am I legally or financially liable?

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