Apple cut the price of the iPhone by a third two months after shipping it, hoping consumers would start yelling "Buy!" Instead they got Wall Street is hollering "Sell!" $11 billion fell from the company's market capitalization in a few short days. Barron's has an excellent roundup of what a dozen analysts have to say about this.
Could Apple's next big price cut be in TV episodes?
Who really knows? The future is unwritten. It's not even burnt into toast.
Perhaps the brilliant toasters of today are harbingers of an imminent takeover by co-mingled human/machine intelligence? A Bay Area gathering ponders this possibility.
Whatever the future holds, we here in the US are tired of being so far behind the rest of the world. Japan has faster Internet, Korea has faster everything -and even the Brits can place a Starbucks order through a laptop.
And soon, they'll be able to do this while editing their photos via an online version of Photoshop.
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