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Post by appledoc on Apr 11, 2014 14:11:56 GMT -8
I'll add a chart this weekend, but looking at this, I think we'll end somewhere between the SMA200 and 493. I don't think we trade below that.
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Post by phoebear611 on Apr 11, 2014 17:22:10 GMT -8
One would think the company would defend the $500 line in the sand but I guess we'll see. Has anyone heard from iPad? Haven't seen her post in a couple of days.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 17:33:39 GMT -8
Sure wish I shorted the tech bubbles early March. Just wow, 25% haircuts across the board.
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Post by lovemyipad on Apr 11, 2014 18:06:47 GMT -8
One would think the company would defend the $500 line in the sand but I guess we'll see. Has anyone heard from iPad? Haven't seen her post in a couple of days. I'm here! Just watching to see how this is going to shake out...
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Post by lovemyipad on Apr 11, 2014 18:08:20 GMT -8
Sure wish I shorted the tech bubbles early March. Just wow, 25% haircuts across the board. Sure wish I didn't keep covering my shorts too soon...
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Post by Mav on Apr 11, 2014 19:09:24 GMT -8
I'll add a chart this weekend, but looking at this, I think we'll end somewhere between the SMA200 and 493. I don't think we trade below that. Depends on earnings. As for _before_ earnings, certainly a reasonable projection.
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Post by Luckychoices on Apr 11, 2014 20:40:06 GMT -8
Tragic stories of Samsung workers who became sick and died after working with toxic chemicals while processing computer chips. The protests against Samsung have been going on for over seven years but don't get much mention, if any, in the U.S. media. Or, at least, if it does get covered, I haven't seen it. Samsung's War at Homewww.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-10/deaths-at-samsung-alter-south-koreas-corporate-is-king-mindsetJust inside his single-story home, built of concrete blocks and coated in turquoise paint, Hwang Sang-ki, a 58-year-old Korean taxi driver, sits on a floor mat. He’s clasping a small handbag, once bright white and now dull after years on a shelf. He pulls out a snapshot of 13 smiling young women, all co-workers at Samsung Electronics (005930:KS), off-duty and posing in three rows, each embracing or leaning into the other. The leaves of a tree behind them are turning golden in the autumn chill. “Here,” says Hwang, pointing to two women in the center of the group. Both had the same job at the same semiconductor factory, on the same line, standing side by side at the same workstation, dipping computer chips into the same vat of chemicals. Both got a particularly aggressive form of the blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia. One was his daughter, Yu-mi. In South Korea, only about 3 out of every 100,000 people die of leukemia. “They worked together, and they died,” says Hwang. The snapshot is among a few private memories Hwang keeps of his late daughter. The story of the two women, and dozens of Samsung workers with leukemia and other rare cancers, is now a very public one in South Korea. In February and March, Koreans could see two movies depicting the seven-year battle led by the Hwangs and other families against Korea’s biggest and most influential corporation. Another Promise, released in February, tells the story of a thinly veiled Hwang and his daughter, who went to work at a Samsung semiconductor plant in 2003, when she was 18, and died at 22. Empire of Shame, a documentary, hit theaters on March 6. Three years in the making, it was shot with intimate access to Hwang and other families of Samsung workers. It focuses on the broader movement Hwang launched to illuminate the use of carcinogens in electronics factories, especially semiconductor plants. Since he began, activists have discovered 58 cases of leukemia and other blood-related cancers across several Samsung plants.
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Post by JDSoCal on Apr 12, 2014 14:21:59 GMT -8
Empire of Shame, a documentary, hit theaters on March 6. Three years in the making, it was shot with intimate access to Hwang and other families of Samsung workers. It focuses on the broader movement Hwang launched to illuminate the use of carcinogens in electronics factories, especially semiconductor plants. Since he began, activists have discovered 58 cases of leukemia and other blood-related cancers across several Samsung plants. Just remember how the media spins things. "Cancer in Apple supply chain."
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Post by bud777 on Apr 12, 2014 17:23:42 GMT -8
Does anyone know what the new Amazon high end phone is going to cost? If Bezos follows his normal approach to selling at a loss to make it upon volume, this could be really bad news for Samesung. Amazon might give the phone away with a Prime membership. Then you get a phone and access to all the Amazon media. Given amazon's cloud capability, it looks to me like they could be a real contender in the lower end. If I was Samesung, I would be looking for something to copy, fast!
This reminds me of those times in the dinosaur movies when the hero is just about to get eaten by a T-Rex and a triceratops comes out of the bushes and they fight to the death and oh yea..Rachel Welch..nevermind....ask your dad
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Post by Lstream on Apr 12, 2014 18:55:38 GMT -8
Raquel, not Rachel.
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Post by Luckychoices on Apr 12, 2014 20:31:12 GMT -8
Empire of Shame, a documentary, hit theaters on March 6. Three years in the making, it was shot with intimate access to Hwang and other families of Samsung workers. It focuses on the broader movement Hwang launched to illuminate the use of carcinogens in electronics factories, especially semiconductor plants. Since he began, activists have discovered 58 cases of leukemia and other blood-related cancers across several Samsung plants. Just remember how the media spins things. "Cancer in Apple supply chain." I take your point, JD, and I remember how they spin things, but I'm tired of them only spinning things about Apple. If Samsung's not made the necessary safety improvements to their manufacturing processes after 7 years, I wouldn't mind the media running with that for awhile. I don't doubt the potential danger of the hazardous chemicals currently used in manufacturing cell phones and other electronics but I'd like to see acknowledgment of the safety improvements Apple has initiated.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2014 12:56:41 GMT -8
I'd love to see Apple announce a ridiculously high level of buyback authorization...they don't need to use it all, but AAPL stays cheap, buy back more shares. I'd love to see "up to 200B" over the next 3 years be announced...they've got around 160B now, plus they'll make another 120B or so in the next 3 years. Why not authorize a massive amount and if Apple stays low, they'll buy back almost half the company. More likely though we'd see an ATM within a year and hopefully 40M shares down with 100B of the buyback used.
Obviously they don't need to use all 200B if Apple goes up significantly, but why not have the ammo available and scare the shorters with a huge number
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Post by JDSoCal on Apr 13, 2014 15:02:03 GMT -8
Red futures again?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2014 16:07:29 GMT -8
Amazon said to be working quickly to get a payments solution out there...not sure whats taking Apple so long? Payments is exactly what Passbook should have been in the first place...Its dissappointing that they really seem to be squandering the massive lead they had in tablets, apps and smartphones.
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Post by Mav on Apr 13, 2014 16:35:41 GMT -8
I don't think this stuff is that easy. Amazon Payments isn't new (and they've had 1-Click forever), nor is Google Wallet. Neither are making a giant impact. Also, Google + OpenSSL = Google Wallet also used OpenSSL? Yep. googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/04/google-services-updated-to-address.htmliBeacon initiative + close attention to security + Touch ID + iCloud Keychain and whatever other pieces Apple is prepping/yet to announce. This stuff won't happen right away. But by the end of this year, every single key iOS product should have a biometric platform in place. That's powerful.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2014 17:50:24 GMT -8
I don't think this stuff is that easy. Amazon Payments isn't new (and they've had 1-Click forever), nor is Google Wallet. Neither are making a giant impact. Also, Google + OpenSSL = Google Wallet also used OpenSSL? Yep. googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/04/google-services-updated-to-address.htmliBeacon initiative + close attention to security + Touch ID + iCloud Keychain and whatever other pieces Apple is prepping/yet to announce. This stuff won't happen right away. But by the end of this year, every single key iOS product should have a biometric platform in place. That's powerful. It doesn't have to be the "end of credit card companies as we know it" from the beginning...they could do easy transfers between friends, loyalty points for everything with a barcode scanner or an ibeacon app and a few other things, bill payments, then just build upon it. Get people used to using it as a "bank" of sorts instead of only for purchasing apps/music. It'd just be nice if they were doing something...Tim said the 2nd half of 2013 and going into 2014 was going to be magical. We're over 100 days into 2014 and I still haven't even seen rumors of anything magical. At best it's months away. Nothing at all has come and we're almost 1/3 of the way through the year...not even an AppleTV or Mac refresh.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2014 17:53:37 GMT -8
Id love some ads attacking google too...talk about how much and what info google sells to advertisers and how much they know about you.
Talk about how if youre not paying for the product, you are the product
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Post by Mav on Apr 13, 2014 23:21:09 GMT -8
Red futures again? Back to neutral. It'll be interesting tomorrow.
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