Today a lot of mainstream media published articles along the same line on how Apple's new patents will kill competition; which makes me think, they do it to push the aapl share price higher in the lack of any major apple product announcements in the current quarter.
βthe lack of any major apple product announcements in the current quarter.β
Apple fourth fiscal quarter of 2012 started in the last week of June and will conclude in the last week of September.
WWDC usually falls in FQ3, one month a go Apple released new notebooks during the event. That was good timing, it means Apple will be able to keep up with demand when the Back to School crowd starts shopping.
Mountain Lion will be released within the next two weeks, which will also boost Mac sales.
The next hardware announcement will be no earlier than September (new iPhone), but that will probably still be in FQ4.
They do it because hyperventilating articles get clicks. Just look at this submission -- how many of us clicked it just to see what astonishing, competition-destroying patent Apple was granted?
Oh, a scrollbar that disappears. Okay...
Of course they piss away credibility doing that, but credibility seems to hold little value these days.
