Another HUGE upside for Apple. Wow, the rumors are going nuts: iTV, significant patent wins (or settlements), now this.....

The patent win isn't a rumor, it's news. Same with the Apple-Nokia settlement. How those wins are being interpreted by the media is a different matter.

The iTV thing is pure speculation. I'd say 95-98% of all Apple rumors end up being false so if you read about something related to Apple that didn't emanate from Apple.com, it probably won't happen.

Cook at China Mobile is less of a rumor with the photograph (assuming it's him). There's a legitimate, specific reason why he is in that building, and it's not to say "hi."

Whatever gets the stock moving. The market is a bottomless pit right now thanks to Bernanke.

The Greek debt crisis has played a bigger factor in the world market downturn than Bernanke.

I'm very skeptical of this iTV thing, especially when the television set market has very thin margins.

Apple would have to put something extremely compelling to make consumers want to pony up the extra dough for what would be a premium-priced product.

Most likely it would be content, and the glaring thing that's missing from Apple TV is live sports. That's a tough nut to crack, all the major sport leagues have contracts full of exclusivity clauses locking them to networks and/or cable operators.

For 600M potential customers, I would customize the shit out of the iPhone to make it compatible with China Mobile's network. Why Apple is hesitant to that is beyond me. If that really is Cook, finally they realized it's hard to ignore that many subscribers in one carrier.