Hot Stocks: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)
By Michael Brooks on May 17, 2010
Hot Stocks: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)
The big story of late has been Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Adobe’s ongoing feud. The question whether Apple will ever put Flash support on their iPad device is one which wll run and run – but the industry support for Adobe can not be ignored. HP recently showed off their new tablet design, and Flash was certainly installed – and many other hardware manufacturers have been extremely supportive about the software.
It is this industry support that should worry Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) investors – that the company is seemingly positioning itself away from other companies in the sector. They have always been outsiders, but that was in a time when they were minority market-share hardware manufacturers.
With their growing market share, however, and their attempts to dominate larger markets such as smart phones, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) must realize that their ‘them vs us’ attitude will not work forever. Just as they have proved they can innovate in both hardware and software, others will follow – and without the support of the community, the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock will not be able to continue to climb as it has lately.
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Oh, I get it! Suddenly Adobe is “the community.” Gosh darn- wait till Apple finds this out! (And they used to be such a savvy little company.)
What about the strong industry support for Apple’s position? ..like Microsoft? How about the industry support for the move to HTML5? Left quite a few things out.. Hey, are you wearing an “I Love to Flash” T-shirt?
Flash has done well to position itself as some sort of underdog. But it’s not. It’s a legacy technology that works on legacy design, such as other vendor’s tablets. If anyone’s ever played with HP touch technology, for example…it’s a complete joke add-on afterthought glitchy jagged buggy nightmare of an excuse to even be called ‘touch technology’.
Apple doesn’t need flash. Simple. For every one hold out (Hulu), there are 463,262,773 other content providers adopting iPhone OS friendly (non-flash) service delivery. Apple already won… what we are hearing now is just the fallout from a select group of holdouts that lost a battle before it was even fought.