Why everyone's afraid of Apple
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Why everyone's afraid of AppleWhy everyone's afraid of AppleApple Inc. used to be the company that everybody loved.motor repairNow it's the company everybody fears.Analysts have been cowed by Apple. Forty cover it. #x But according to data from Thomson Reuters, no fewer than 36 of them are bullish, rating it either a "buy" or "outperform." Just one analyst rates it as a sell.Journalists are terrified of this company too.Why? Just ask Jason Chen - the editor at tech blog Gizmodo who got his hands on the next iPhone. Apple's response? They sent in the police, who smashed down Chen's front door, ransacked his house -- while he was out -- and carted off computers and files. When Chen returned home from dinner with his wife, they frisked him too.No wonder Jon Stewart at the Daily Show called the company "Appholes" and likened this to 1984. (When I emailed Chen about the incident, he said he couldn't talk.)And everybody knows Apple's competitors have pretty much had a meltdown of Apple terror.motor repairRival computer makers, in awe of the iPad, #x have scrapped or punted tablet PCs. Websites are rewriting code because Jobs has banned Adobe Flash from the iPhone and iPad. Even Amazon.com Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!amzn/quotes/nls/amzn (AMZN 137.31, +0.21, +0.15%) is afraid. Not only does the iPad threaten the Kindle, but according to an account by Ken Auletta in the New Yorker, Apple may be willing to help publishers boycott the Kindle until Amazon agrees to stick it to the public by raising the price of e-books.(That $9.99 e-book will now cost you $14,Flexible Tub, ma'am. Don't thank us. Thank billionaire Steve Jobs.)Has Apple, once the Rebel Alliance, become the Evil Empire? Has Anakin Skywalker become Darth Vader?motor repairCall me ornery. But the time to start #x asking really tough questions is when everyone else is too cowed to do so. And here goes.相关的主题文章：
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