Here we go again. Remember what I said before about watching the money when it comes to Apple news? The analysts are pulling numbers out of their butts again. Let’s see where Apple’s stock goes this morning, shall we? Right now, it’s already down $1.53. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/30/apples_black_friday_mac_sales_forecast_to_decrease.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/30/another_take_apples_black_friday_sales_seen_as_strong.html Again, not a single word of…

So it’s now official. Apple has made tools freely available for creating iTunes LPs, and is encouraging groups to create their own. All that panic a few months back for nothing, as usual. It never ceases to amaze me how wrong the media is about Apple on a regular basis. Read the full article here: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/26/apple_posts_tools_for_building_tunekit_itunes_lps_and_extras.html…

Time for everyone to take a deep breath and use common sense about the latest Apple tablet rumors. Let’s start with a reality check. There is no Apple tablet. No one at Apple, speaking for Apple, has ever made any mention whatsoever of such a product in any way. Not as a future product, not as an idea for a product. Not even as a denial of the product. Anyone who would have deep inside knowledge of such a project is locked away in a room somewhere in Cupertino.…

John Biggs on Tech Crunch suggests that Google should make Apple “beg” Google to write a turn-by-turn navigation app for the iPhone. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/28/google-should-make-apple-beg-for-maps-na… Where do I begin? Let’s get one thing completely straight. In the mobile phone space, Google needs Apple right now A LOT more than Apple needs Google. Google makes money by spreading its ads everywhere possible. For Google to suddenly lose its ability to spread those ads via the iPhone would be a drastic loss. This is why Google…

Okay, so now some people are predicting Apple will report revenue below expectations on Monday. Is anyone else confused yet? I mean in addition to the paradox of expecting something to be lower than expected? Using the press to manipulate stock prices is no longer in the realms of conspiracy theory. It’s an observable phenomenon. So how come no one ever gets put in jail for it?…