American Apparel is Producing Goods in China, Not So American After All

American Apparel is not that American anymore. They are producing goods in China. According to CNBC's Made in China, American Apparel will produce goods for Chinese retail stores in China instead of USA.

This is a low blow to US consumers who thought they were supporting an all American company. Many consumers were purchasing American Apparel because it was not only made in the USA, but it was made by American workers treated right. This is not so true anymore if the products are made outside of the United States.

Before, American Apparel gave the impression that they were supporting America, but now it is clear that they aren't that brand. The company has said on CNBC that they stand for "The American Dream". This basically means nothing in terms of supporting America and American workers. It seems more like a marketing gimmik to us.

If American Apparel really wanted to be American, they would produce the clothing for the Chinese market in the United States.

Reviewer wasn't able to pick up any ladies with the Palm Pre

This reviewer wasn't able to pick up any girls with his Palm Pre. He said it didn't turn any heads. Maybe if he would have picked up a new Apple 3GS?

Supreme Leader: How the Iranian government really works

In Iran the Supreme Leader is Khamenei and he has more power then the President and the 12 clergy.

The Supreme Leader has the final say on everything because he is supposedly the messenger of god. Even if people disagree with what he says, it makes no difference. It is believed that Khamenei, the messenger of God, knows better and is wiser.

For example, Khamenei has decided that "Street challenges [to the election] are not acceptable". It doesn't matter if thousands of people are questioning the vote count because Khamenei's word is the final word. It prevails over everything else.

This is the problem with this government setup is that they constantly pretend that they run as a democracy. The truth is that Khamenei has the final say over the President who is elected. This means the Supreme Leader Khamenei can do whatever he wants.

Apple Says: No iTunes Sync to Palm Pre

Apple has announced that they will not let the iTune sync compatibility to Palm Pre continue. This means that everyone will love their iPhone and stay with it. Anyway, I don't see why anybody would want to switch from a iPhone with 50,000 application to a crappy Palm Pe with only a few applications.

If Apple releases iPhone to Verizon or Sprint the sales for all other phones including Palm will decline. Imagine having the fast eVDO network on the iPhone! WOW!

Flash Player 10 64-bit Version IE8

How can one run Flash Player 10 on a 64 bit version of IE8?? You can't!!! Macromedia sucks and they have been aware of this issue since 10/2008 according to their own website. This is almost a year of non-support. As a result of this matter, we have sold all shares of the Adobe stock in our portfolio. This company obviously doesn't care about anyone and the profit was not justifying their greed.

We hope all Flash becomes Silverlight at this point. I can't believe Adobe.

I am posting this from IE8 64-bit which is much faster, but most of the time I have to shut it down because of the Flash Player problem.

We hope that Macromedia will come to their senses and figure out a 64-bit version. Atleast make a fake 64-bit version that just emulates the 32-bit on a 64-bit. That should be easy.

After searching everywhere, we have given up. We welcome any workaround comments on the Flash Player 64-bit issue.

2 photos of Collision before Death on Air France crash

We have recently received an email stating that they have pictures from the Air France flight. Some state that these images are a hoax but we weren't able to find enough information on the web. Please give comments on if this is a hoax or not.

Details of the email:

Yesterday the world saw the disappearance of an A330 Air Frane during a trans Atlantic flight between Rio to Paris. Very ironic that a day before I got a mail of the photos taken a a passenger on a flight mins after a mid air collision, and mins before the crash of the said aircraft Two shots taken inside the plane before it crashed. Unbelievable! Photos taken inside the GOL B 737 aircraft that was involved in a mid air collision and crashed..... A B737 had a mid air collision with the Embraer Legacy while cruising at 35,000 feet over South America. The Embraer Legacy, though seriously damaged with the winglet ripped off, managed to make a landing at a nearby airstrip in the midst of the Amazon jungle. The crew and passengers of the Embraer Legacy had no idea what they had hit. The B737however crashed, killing all crew and passengers on board.The two photos attached were apparently taken by one of the passengers in the B737, just after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera's memory stick. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole.

These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto Alegre. It can be imagined that he was standing during the impact with the Embraer Legacy and during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged. So the camera was found near the cockpit. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not unfortunately the victims. Paulo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz.

FYI: We discovered it is fake photos. They are actually from the TV show Lost.

Palm Pre vs All the Other Big Guys

With Palm stock at $14.82, a lot of questions arise. Why is a company that has around a -6 P/E with a 52-week low of $1.14 trading so high? What is so special about the new Palm Pre?

I have been researching the Palm Pre for the last week now and the more I look at it the more I want to short the Palm stock. My short sell comes from the fact that even if they do a good job, I don't see the price to be higher then $6 to $8. The product has to do stellar for the price to be justified at $14.

Here is a device with a very nice interface and features. But the problem for Palm is that there is a lot of competition. iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile devices, Symbian, and other devices.

If we look at the market share at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Market_share_of_mobile_os_s_2008.JPG we see that Palm's market share is very little.


One thing that I saw on all the reviews was the ranting and raving about the multi-tasking. This is where the Pre user can open one program, such as Pandora, to play music and still run other programs at the same time. This isn't such a new hot feature as the Windows Mobile phones have had this feature since before the dark ages. For example, check out the HTC Touch/HTC Diamond phones or Palm's own Palm Pro (which runs Windows Mobile) and does the same exact thing.

This seems to be a lot of hype created the Palm company, Palm marketers, or company investors. I don't understand how they are justifying the $14 share price.

I was passing by the Apple store the other day where I see kids and adults looking at iPods and iPhones as if they are on the Its a Small World ride at Disneyland. With over 50k applications, how will the 18 application Palm compete? Its not going to be easy year for Palm.

Google, Apple, RIMM, and Microsoft are definitely not going to back down from the Smartphone market. Especially with their deep pockets, there is no way they are going to let "little" Palm take them down.