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Post by phoebear611 on May 28, 2015 3:07:35 GMT -8
Good Morning AAPL slightly red here this morning at $131.82 (-0.22) Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ all weaker here this morning Shanghai was down 6.50% overnight Deals this morning: Avago to buy Broadcom to pay $37 BN in cash and stock 9 to 5 Mac reporting that Apple Pay plans on launching a Rewards Program at the WWDC - that would be great: 9to5mac.com/2015/05/27/apple-pay-rewards/Quartz reporting that Apple's Jeff Williams spoke at the Code Conference yesterday and pretty much said that Apple will launch a new software kit for its app developers on its watch because they aren't happy (or perhaps customers aren't happy) with the results of the current apps so far. It will allow apps to run directly on the watch, and will give apps and companies access to more functions on the device, including its sensors and “digital crown.”: qz.com/413616/better-apple-watch-apps-are-coming-this-year/Hopefully you weren't one of the recipients to receive the anthrax that some idiot mailed out by accident from our armed services lab - geez! Looks like we're going for Game 7 in both hockey conference leagues - should be exciting for us sports fans. Let's go make some money before Since84 gets back tomorrow! ~ Enjoy the day!
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Post by rickag on May 28, 2015 3:50:57 GMT -8
Good Morning phoebear611, thank you for opening the thread.
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Post by phoebear611 on May 28, 2015 3:56:56 GMT -8
Good Morning phoebear611, thank you for opening the thread. Good morning to you - no worries. Now if I could only twitch my nose and turn the stock green we would be in business
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Post by Red Shirted Ensign on May 28, 2015 4:46:15 GMT -8
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Post by Ted on May 28, 2015 6:34:41 GMT -8
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Post by Red Shirted Ensign on May 28, 2015 7:29:31 GMT -8
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Post by artman1033 on May 28, 2015 7:55:39 GMT -8
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Post by Ted on May 28, 2015 10:35:29 GMT -8
Watched a little of GOOG's keynote today. They should send Apple some royalties for stealing the Cupertino approach, graphics and use of a sincere and soft-spoken man with a British accent… Is there any other way any more?
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Post by Luckychoices on May 28, 2015 10:56:24 GMT -8
This is great news! How much will it hurt the stock? (I'm channeling bud777...) For the first time, IBM offers to buy employees a Mac and will become one of the biggest Apple shopsfinance.yahoo.com/news/first-time-ibm-offers-buy-173903608.htmlIBM's huge partnership with Apple is giving IBM employees a never-before-offered benefit. IBM is, for the first time, offering to buy employees a Mac as their main work PC, reports 9to5 Mac. That's pretty ironic considering that IBM is considered the inventor of the PC, (although IBM shed its PC business by selling it to Lenovo way back in 2004). Macs weren't exactly forbidden at IBM, but that's not the same thing as actively telling employees to go ahead and choose a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, or a Mac PC when they are due to get a new PC, or as an option for new hires. According to an internal memo seen by 9to5 Mac, IBM says that it currently has around 15,000 Macs deployed through its BYOD (bring your own device to work) program. That's a drop in the bucket for a workforce comprised of nearly 380,000 people. But IBM plans to deploy around 50,000 MacBooks by the end of the year, according to the memo, making IBM one of the biggest enterprise Mac shops. (We've reached out to IBM and asked about this memo and these stats and will update when we hear back.) As we previously reported, Apple had insisted that all of IBM's salespeople selling the partnership use Macs running Keynote presentations developed by Apple. One analyst viewed this as a show of power on Apple's part, meaning Apple held the cards in this partnership. This new option for employees may or may not be an extension of Apple's power in the relationship. However, some IBM employees seem happy about it and have taken to Twitter to cheer.
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Post by rob_london on May 28, 2015 11:04:25 GMT -8
Two charts from UBS: "Premium smartphone market share in China" "Top brand owned by household income level" (again in China)
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Post by CdnPhoto on May 28, 2015 11:15:35 GMT -8
Two charts from UBS: "Premium smartphone market share in China" "Top brand owned by household income level" (again in China) Interesting that at the low end of the scale, the percentage of iPhones goes up. Aspirational?
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Post by CdnPhoto on May 28, 2015 12:02:20 GMT -8
It doesn't look like the weekly options expiry will have much impact this week. There isn't much in terms of Open Interest at this time.
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Post by Ted on May 28, 2015 12:31:32 GMT -8
Finally, a somewhat clued-in article on Apple's new CDO! 5 Reasons Jony Ive's Step Back Is Apple's Step Forward"The No. 1 reason I think Ive's new position is critical and important to Apple is this: Ive's greatest design challenge still awaits. It's not the new Apple campus, and it's not furniture. No, Apple is an astoundingly large and influential company that is hurtling toward its most important work." www.technewsworld.com/story/82108.html?rss=1
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Post by ericinaustin on May 28, 2015 13:27:00 GMT -8
Two charts from UBS: "Premium smartphone market share in China" "Top brand owned by household income level" (again in China) Interesting that at the low end of the scale, the percentage of iPhones goes up. Aspirational? One of the points I've made before is that the argument that iPhone prices are too high is weak given that this luxury item has a lux price that isn't on the same price diff. scale as say a lux. House or a lux. Car. Budget to lux in houses and cars differ by a factor of 10. Phones? 2 or 3. This is a lux. aspirational product that is reachable by most; similar to an expensive hand bag. Considering this product plays so many key rolls I just have never felt price was going to be a big roadblock to anyone. I think Apple always knew this but pundits still can't seem to grok it. Ericinaustin
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Post by moltenfire on May 28, 2015 15:07:00 GMT -8
In other happy news, my Apple Watch arrived today Ordered a 42mm Alum with black sports band on the Saturday after preorders were available.
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Post by Ted on May 28, 2015 16:13:27 GMT -8
Competitors dukin' it out. Google's working to crack open the education market more with Cardboard VR goggles as well as trying to match Apple Pay & Touch ID, while Apple works to catch up to Google Now functionality and public transpo info in Maps, etc., etc. Quite the ongoing battle. At least Apple seems to be winning the hardware/phone war for now, and that helps in many ways...
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 19:15:47 GMT -8
Walt Mossberg splits from the WSJ and can't keep the boat afloat going solo. Except, he didn't go solo (with Kara Swisher). His Recode ran with 44 employees! What a farce! Just goes to show that when journalists write about business, they have NO CLUE about business.
He had a huge opportunity on his own and BLEW IT. Instead, he now serves his new master, Craptastic. What a world....
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 19:18:52 GMT -8
Competitors dukin' it out. Google's working to crack open the education market more with Cardboard VR goggles as well as trying to match Apple Pay & Touch ID, while Apple works to catch up to Google Now functionality and public transpo info in Maps, etc., etc. Quite the ongoing battle. At least Apple seems to be winning the hardware/phone war for now, and that helps in many ways... Chromebook's are doing pretty good in school, primarily due to its price point.
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Post by mark on May 29, 2015 5:26:51 GMT -8
Walt Mossberg splits from the WSJ and can't keep the boat afloat going solo. Except, he didn't go solo (with Kara Swisher). His Recode ran with 44 employees! What a farce! Just goes to show that when journalists write about business, they have NO CLUE about business. He had a huge opportunity on his own and BLEW IT. Instead, he now serves his new master, Craptastic. What a world.... It's also possible that he decided that content creation is currently overvalued and wanted to cash out at/near the peak.
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