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It was an eventful week--a new President-elect, Yahoo still playing the field with no takers, and the hovering recession beginning to hit a little harder, a little closer to home. It was hard to keep the storylines straight, so let's approach it thematically.
This is pretty funny. Mark Papermaster, the 26-year IBM (IBM) veteran being sued by his employer for taking a job at Apple, is convinced Big Blue’s suit is entirely without merit. Why? Apple doesn’t compete with IBM and never has.
“I do not recall a single instance of Apple being described as a competitor of IBM during my entire tenure at IBM,” Papermaster said in a court filing. Now, I know Apple’s famous “1984″ ad is a few decades old now and and memories of the company’s 1984 Annual Shareholders meeting are well faded, even at Apple. But surely someone, somewhere in Cupertino must recall CEO Steve Jobs’s comments at that meeting. 
Discussing the latest in Sprint Nextel’s sad little parade of earnings announcements with analysts this morning, CEO Dan Hesse said the company has “yet to turn the corner” on the road to recovery. Looking over the company’s financials today, I’d say the corner to which he refers isn’t even in sight yet. If anything, Sprint appears to be heading down one of those bleak midwestern straightaways--in this case, jammed with the traffic of its fleeing subscribers.
Shares of Yahoo are slipping deep into the mud today after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer very publicly dismissed suggestions that the company might “revisit a possible acquisition” of the much diminished Internet portal. Yahoo is trading at well below $12--$11.86--as I write this, having plummeted nearly 15 percent on Ballmer’s remarks. 
You can stop gloating now, Steve. Though Apple shipped more iPhones this summer than RIM shipped Blackberries, its share of the U.S. market is still dwarfed by its Canadian rival. According to Strategy Analytics, Apple accounted for just 5.7 percent of the mobile phone market in the states in the third quarter while Research in Motion claimed nearly twice as much. 
