{"id":836,"date":"2008-01-27T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T02:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2008\/01\/27\/newsletter-426-preview-turning-good-news-into-bad\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T07:14:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T14:14:53","slug":"newsletter-426-preview-turning-good-news-into-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2008\/01\/newsletter-426-preview-turning-good-news-into-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #426 Preview: Turning Good News Into Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was listening to some talking heads debate Apple&#8217;s financial prospects on a 24-hour cable TV show this weekend, I had the vain hope that they would provide a needed dose of reality upon the bad tidings surrounding Apple Inc. these days.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it was a mixed bag. One financial analyst said Apple was doing just dandy, thank you, while another said Apple&#8217;s stock has long been overpriced, and was a better buy at $125 per share. My conclusion is that they really don&#8217;t know, but they got on that show because they can provide instant pithy comments on a variety of financial matters that sounded great on TV. It doesn&#8217;t matter if they know what they are talking about or not.<\/p>\n<p>It never does, sad to say.<\/p>\n<p>But after it became clear that you can&#8217;t fault a company for having record sales, despite a basically gloomy economic outlook, the nasty, noisy negatives of the financial and tech press decided to embark in the incredibly wrong-headed search for the missing iPhones.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Click here to read the rest of the story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2008\/01\/27\/newsletter-issue-426\/#iphones\">Story continued in this week&#8217;s Tech Night Owl Newsletter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was listening to some talking heads debate Apple&#8217;s financial prospects on a 24-hour cable TV show this weekend, I had the vain hope that they would provide a needed dose of reality upon the bad tidings surrounding Apple Inc. these days. In the end, it was a mixed bag. 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