chinacat
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Post by chinacat on Apr 9, 2016 15:25:23 GMT -8
Hello? Anybody out there? I can accept these alternating plus/minus weeks as long as the pluses (6.10, 3.66, 4.32) keep heavily outweighing the minuses (0.75,0.25,1.33). Monday is two weeks to earnings. Apple certainly attempted to dampen expectations on last quarter's call. Could the SE add just enough to push iPhone sales into positive territory? Anyone have a handle on the currency situation, and whether it will mirror Tim's dire warnings for this quarter? Just the usual amount of FUD so far. Perhaps the pundits have gotten as disinterested as the participants in this forum. Discuss among yourselves.
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Post by phoebear611 on Apr 9, 2016 16:09:33 GMT -8
A little anecdote on the SE which had not occurred to me intuitively: (1) There are people here in the US who find the iPhone somewhat costly - it's not just the developing countries. My senior citizen mom just announced that she is finally buying an iPhone because it is now affordable to her. Furthermore she is going with her other three senior citizen girlfriends and they are ALL buying one. (2) Subsequently when chatting with my friend last week she told me that she was buying the SE for her children ... She has two kids but didn't want to buy an iPhone for one and not the other. Prior pricing made it prohibitive. Given the the price of the new SE she is now buying two and said that many parents she speaks to are doing like wise.
I had not thought of the elderly or the very young. I had simply thought of other countries where the SE would do well given its price point. I'm now starting to think that they will do better with the SE than anyone is even anticipating. FWIW ... this iPad Pro is the bomb. It really is a thing of beauty. Find myself using it more than my MacBook Pro throughout the day. Really love it.
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Post by Ted on Apr 9, 2016 16:55:56 GMT -8
The SE is a hit in our house. Eldest son has a beaten-up 5S and will be the first of three kids to trade in and up for the new SE 64. He likes the smaller size so much and would not consider the 4.7" phones. But of course there are no phones to be had, so we just ordered online - a 20 day wait or so. The 64 runs $499, but the trade-in of $150 brings it down to a more reasonable zone for daddy warbucks . . .
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Post by rickag on Apr 10, 2016 4:15:02 GMT -8
Hello? Anybody out there? I can accept these alternating plus/minus weeks as long as the pluses (6.10, 3.66, 4.32) keep heavily outweighing the minuses (0.75,0.25,1.33). Monday is two weeks to earnings. Apple certainly attempted to dampen expectations on last quarter's call. Could the SE add just enough to push iPhone sales into positive territory? Anyone have a handle on the currency situation, and whether it will mirror Tim's dire warnings for this quarter? Just the usual amount of FUD so far. Perhaps the pundits have gotten as disinterested as the participants in this forum. Discuss among yourselves. Thank you for starting this thread. With the iPhone SE sold out virtually everywhere, it must have somewhat surprised Apple's sales estimates. I like the fact that the 64 gig model is doing so well apparently. Wonder if Apple is considering a 128 gig model, that would put in a price range competing with iPhone 6 / 6s models with less memory.
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Post by ericinaustin on Apr 10, 2016 6:34:47 GMT -8
Hello? Anybody out there? I can accept these alternating plus/minus weeks as long as the pluses (6.10, 3.66, 4.32) keep heavily outweighing the minuses (0.75,0.25,1.33). Monday is two weeks to earnings. Apple certainly attempted to dampen expectations on last quarter's call. Could the SE add just enough to push iPhone sales into positive territory? Anyone have a handle on the currency situation, and whether it will mirror Tim's dire warnings for this quarter? Just the usual amount of FUD so far. Perhaps the pundits have gotten as disinterested as the participants in this forum. Discuss among yourselves. Thank you for starting this thread. With the iPhone SE sold out virtually everywhere, it must have somewhat surprised Apple's sales estimates. I like the fact that the 64 gig model is doing so well apparently. Wonder if Apple is considering a 128 gig model, that would put in a price range competing with iPhone 6 / 6s models with less memory. I think with cloud based storage, memory on the phone is becoming less and less important.
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Post by hledgard on Apr 10, 2016 10:21:43 GMT -8
A little anecdote on the SE which had not occurred to me intuitively: (1) There are people here in the US who find the iPhone somewhat costly - it's not just the developing countries. My senior citizen mom just announced that she is finally buying an iPhone because it is now affordable to her. Furthermore she is going with her other three senior citizen girlfriends and they are ALL buying one. (2) Subsequently when chatting with my friend last week she told me that she was buying the SE for her children ... She has two kids but didn't want to buy an iPhone for one and not the other. Prior pricing made it prohibitive. Given the the price of the new SE she is now buying two and said that many parents she speaks to are doing like wise. I had not thought of the elderly or the very young. I had simply thought of other countries where the SE would do well given its price point. I'm now starting to think that they will do better with the SE than anyone is even anticipating. FWIW ... this iPad Pro is the bomb. It really is a thing of beauty. Find myself using it more than my MacBook Pro throughout the day. Really love it. Precisely my thought too. And, I think, the idea of a new Apple phone for 399 sound great price wise. i.e., no need to get an Android just to save $.
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Post by osx10 on Apr 10, 2016 13:55:09 GMT -8
Max Pain is showing as $100 for Friday - hopefully that will not come to be.
As we get closer to earnings, a question... have any of you been tracking the USD versus other currencies? Perhaps we get a surprise the good way this quarter...
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Post by chinacat on Apr 10, 2016 14:03:54 GMT -8
From today's Boston Globe:
The NFL’s deal with Twitter to stream 10 “Thursday Night Football” games was for a surprisingly little amount — a shade more than $10 million for the total package, or about $1 million per game. Meanwhile, Yahoo paid $17 million just to broadcast one game last year, Bills-Jaguars from London.
But there are two reasons for the disparity. One, the Bills-Jaguars game was an exclusive broadcast for Yahoo. That game wasn’t shown in any TV markets in the United States except Buffalo and Jacksonville, while the Thursday night games will be aired on network TV (CBS or NBC) and cable (NFL Network).
And two, Twitter doesn’t have many windows to sell its own advertising. A league source with knowledge of the deal said that the Twitter stream must carry all of the national commercials that are sold by the networks. Twitter is only allowed to sell ads during the local advertising spots, of which there are only a handful each hour.
The NFL and Twitter signed only a one-year deal, with both sides curious to see how the experiment will pan out.
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Twitter is desperate, and it sounds like the NFL took advantage of it.
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