Dave
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Post by Dave on Jan 24, 2020 3:27:32 GMT -8
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Post by hledgard on Jan 24, 2020 5:45:50 GMT -8
Thanks for opening the thread Dave !
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Post by chinacat on Jan 24, 2020 5:54:00 GMT -8
At the risk of seeming like a shill for Business Insider... TECH COMPANIES IN FINANCIAL SERVICES: How Apple, Amazon, and Google are taking financial services by storm, does provide a nice overview outline of the topics relevant to the subject at hand, for those who wish to do more research on their own, instead of paying for the advertised report. On a similar topic, Tearsheet ("the only media company obsessively focused on technology’s impact on the financial services and fintech industry") says PFM apps are folding as banks work them into their own apps. Based on the article mentioned above, the banks may need to be looking over their shoulder, as the tech companies have much more experience in developing and deploying apps of all kinds. Certainly, this is an arena in which trust of the app vendor will be crucial, which should play to Apple's strength. Apple curmudgeon Gordon Kelly has an unusually upbeat outlook in New iPhone Exclusive Reveals Stunning Apple Design Decision; for once he means "stunning" in a good sense, much to my surprise. Patently Apple has Apple Repeats their Year Old Appeal to EU Commission on the Lightning Connector issue at the World Economic Forum in Davos. IMHO, lightning cables are one of the biggest pieces of crap that Apple has ever produced. Just about every one I own has frayed just below the plastic collar below the connector. We have found some add-on protectors that improve things, but they shouldn't be necessary.
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Post by longsince98 on Jan 24, 2020 6:59:55 GMT -8
Man. I’m not a religious person, but god damn are we all blessed for putting our futures with this company.
This is not a quality post, but I just feel so grateful that I need to share it with the group of people I know who would truly understand.
WHEEEEEEEEE!
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Post by socal Film Composer on Jan 24, 2020 7:06:30 GMT -8
This is an amazing run - congrats longs! also this $400 price target from Web Bush this AM - after checks to Asia - it looks like Apple is getting it's mojo back with the Chinese consumer, which is great news, after the trade war tension and apple boycotts there. I see the stories about the new lower priced phone too, and I think AAPL learned a very important Lesson in their pricing of the 11 (50 less than the XR which has become a runaway hit.
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Post by artman1033 on Jan 24, 2020 7:07:04 GMT -8
AAPL ALL TIME HIGH! $323.32 All Time Highest TODAY intraday
updated at close (3 PM CENTRAL)
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Post by aaplcrazie on Jan 24, 2020 7:08:29 GMT -8
36 Years Ago today..... Hello, I'm Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag. Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I'd like to share with you a maxim I thought of the first time I met an IBM mainframe: NEVER TRUST A COMPUTER YOU CAN'T LIFT! Obviously, I can talk, but right now I'd like to sit back and listen. So, it is with considerable pride that I introduce a man who's been like a father to me... STEVE JOBS. www.macrumors.com/2020/01/24/macintosh-36th-anniversary/Attachments:
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Post by socal Film Composer on Jan 24, 2020 7:19:01 GMT -8
Here's the info on the $400 target - Apple gets $400 target on 5G cycleJan. 24, 2020 9:26 AM ET|About: Apple Inc. (AAPL)|By: Brandy Betz, SA News Editor Wedbush analyst Dan Ives raises his Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) target from $350 to $400, saying the Street is underestimating the "magnitude of the 5G upgrade cycle." Ives cites checks with Apple iPhone suppliers that implied that customers want to buy. The analyst calls the AirPods demand "jaw dropping" and expects upbeat earnings and guidance next week. Apple will report earnings on January 28. Apple shares are up 0.3% pre-market to $320.25. The company has a Bullish average Sell side rating.
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Post by chinacat on Jan 24, 2020 7:47:51 GMT -8
Welcome to new member wendybestbooks! Please do introduce yourself. Likely you have been following along for a while, so you know that we mostly don’t bite, and off-topic posts have pretty much returned to the Dungeon. It’s a great time to be an Apple/AAPL fan, so join the party.
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Post by hyci004 on Jan 24, 2020 9:42:41 GMT -8
At the risk of seeming like a shill for Business Insider... TECH COMPANIES IN FINANCIAL SERVICES: How Apple, Amazon, and Google are taking financial services by storm, does provide a nice overview outline of the topics relevant to the subject at hand, for those who wish to do more research on their own, instead of paying for the advertised report. On a similar topic, Tearsheet ("the only media company obsessively focused on technology’s impact on the financial services and fintech industry") says PFM apps are folding as banks work them into their own apps. Based on the article mentioned above, the banks may need to be looking over their shoulder, as the tech companies have much more experience in developing and deploying apps of all kinds. Certainly, this is an arena in which trust of the app vendor will be crucial, which should play to Apple's strength. Apple curmudgeon Gordon Kelly has an unusually upbeat outlook in New iPhone Exclusive Reveals Stunning Apple Design Decision; for once he means "stunning" in a good sense, much to my surprise. Patently Apple has Apple Repeats their Year Old Appeal to EU Commission on the Lightning Connector issue at the World Economic Forum in Davos. IMHO, lightning cables are one of the biggest pieces of crap that Apple has ever produced. Just about every one I own has frayed just below the plastic collar below the connector. We have found some add-on protectors that improve things, but they shouldn't be necessary. Never had a frayed lightning cable yet. I suggest unplugging at the base of the cable and don’t yank on the cable itself.
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Post by chinacat on Jan 24, 2020 9:54:20 GMT -8
Never had a frayed lightning cable yet. I suggest unplugging at the base of the cable and don’t yank on the cable itself. Glad you’ve had a different experience, but I never yank. I believe that it mostly results from the cable accidentally getting moved into a bent position before charging overnight.
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Post by JDSoCal on Jan 24, 2020 10:08:02 GMT -8
Guys, please stop yanking your cables at night. TIA. AAPL valiantly trying to overcome this red market day.
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Post by firestorm on Jan 24, 2020 13:01:28 GMT -8
Guys, please stop yanking your cables at night. TIA. AAPL valiantly trying to overcome this red market day. Plug it in lovingly instead.
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Jan 24, 2020 13:21:54 GMT -8
This is not how I saw the day ending.
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Post by Ted on Jan 24, 2020 13:21:59 GMT -8
At the risk of seeming like a shill for Business Insider... TECH COMPANIES IN FINANCIAL SERVICES: How Apple, Amazon, and Google are taking financial services by storm, does provide a nice overview outline of the topics relevant to the subject at hand, for those who wish to do more research on their own, instead of paying for the advertised report. On a similar topic, Tearsheet ("the only media company obsessively focused on technology’s impact on the financial services and fintech industry") says PFM apps are folding as banks work them into their own apps. Based on the article mentioned above, the banks may need to be looking over their shoulder, as the tech companies have much more experience in developing and deploying apps of all kinds. Certainly, this is an arena in which trust of the app vendor will be crucial, which should play to Apple's strength. Apple curmudgeon Gordon Kelly has an unusually upbeat outlook in New iPhone Exclusive Reveals Stunning Apple Design Decision; for once he means "stunning" in a good sense, much to my surprise. Patently Apple has Apple Repeats their Year Old Appeal to EU Commission on the Lightning Connector issue at the World Economic Forum in Davos. IMHO, lightning cables are one of the biggest pieces of crap that Apple has ever produced. Just about every one I own has frayed just below the plastic collar below the connector. We have found some add-on protectors that improve things, but they shouldn't be necessary. Never had a frayed lightning cable yet. I suggest unplugging at the base of the cable and don’t yank on the cable itself. Yeh, Chinacat, you're holding it wrong. 🤓
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Post by dreamRaj on Jan 24, 2020 13:28:11 GMT -8
Guys, please stop yanking your cables at night. TIA. Plug it in lovingly instead. 🤣🤣 at both the comments!
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Post by chinacat on Jan 24, 2020 15:08:44 GMT -8
Guys, please stop yanking your cables at night. TIA. AAPL valiantly trying to overcome this red market day. Plug it in lovingly instead. Yes, have been happily married to Fabulous Spouse for 43 years 😍
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Post by firestorm on Jan 24, 2020 18:03:50 GMT -8
Plug it in lovingly instead. Yes, have been happily married to Fabulous Spouse for 43 years 😍 And me for 47.
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Post by bud777 on Jan 24, 2020 18:44:14 GMT -8
While you guys have been yanking your cables, I have been dealing with a near disaster. Some fine gentlemen from Minsk have seen fit to hack into my computer and help them themselves to all my info, including taking over my cell phone. This is especially noxious because this allows them to change all my passwords. Most financial companies use two factor authentication where they text you a code to verify who you are before you can update the password. Because these clever lads rerouted my phone number to their burner, they were able to change my AppleID and lock me out of the walled garden. Ironically, all the Apple security measures do now is prevent me from correcting the theft. I cannot restore the AppleID because they control the phone number and Apple, of course, is not going to change that number based on a phone call. They used ApplePay to reward themselves with a $10,000 performance bonus which I was just barely able to stop when GS tapped my Chase account for the money. I hope GS doesn't get hurt by this, they are such fine upstanding fellows. So far, I have not lost money from this.
I feel sort of like Scrooge McDuck after the Beagle Boys have tunneled in. I have to admit that I have been lax with protecting my computer since it is a Mac, but believe me, the threats are real. So far the financial damage is dwarfed by damage I have done to myself with my options trading, so there is that. OK, that's it. Just a cautionary tale. Please don't tell me what an idiot I am, I am already aware of it. Back to your cables.
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Post by hyci004 on Jan 24, 2020 19:54:29 GMT -8
While you guys have been yanking your cables, I have been dealing with a near disaster. Some fine gentlemen from Minsk have seen fit to hack into my computer and help them themselves to all my info, including taking over my cell phone. This is especially noxious because this allows them to change all my passwords. Most financial companies use two factor authentication where they text you a code to verify who you are before you can update the password. Because these clever lads rerouted my phone number to their burner, they were able to change my AppleID and lock me out of the walled garden. Ironically, all the Apple security measures do now is prevent me from correcting the theft. I cannot restore the AppleID because they control the phone number and Apple, of course, is not going to change that number based on a phone call. They used ApplePay to reward themselves with a $10,000 performance bonus which I was just barely able to stop when GS tapped my Chase account for the money. I hope GS doesn't get hurt by this, they are such fine upstanding fellows. So far, I have not lost money from this. I feel sort of like Scrooge McDuck after the Beagle Boys have tunneled in. I have to admit that I have been lax with protecting my computer since it is a Mac, but believe me, the threats are real. So far the financial damage is dwarfed by damage I have done to myself with my options trading, so there is that. OK, that's it. Just a cautionary tale. Please don't tell me what an idiot I am, I am already aware of it. Back to your cables. How did they get into your computer?
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Post by bud777 on Jan 25, 2020 3:46:03 GMT -8
NO idea really. I ran Norton virus scan and found some suspicious files. I recently subscribed to a weekly email from DuPont Registry using a pop-up on their site. That may have given them my email address and might have been a phishing scheme. I cannot prove it, but the timing was about right. My only indication that something was wrong was that I started being flooded with emails saying,"Thank you for joining our site. click here to verify your email" I didn't respond to any of them. I posted this to alert the group to the fact that MAC OS is no longer the virus free zone we have enjoyed. DuPont Registry may be a perfectly clean site, I don't know, but if I were looking for people worth hacking, it would certainly be a site where they would go. I have let them know about it.
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Post by Dave on Jan 25, 2020 3:53:41 GMT -8
While you guys have been yanking your cables, I have been dealing with a near disaster. Some fine gentlemen from Minsk have seen fit to hack into my computer and help them themselves to all my info, including taking over my cell phone. This is especially noxious because this allows them to change all my passwords. Most financial companies use two factor authentication where they text you a code to verify who you are before you can update the password. Because these clever lads rerouted my phone number to their burner, they were able to change my AppleID and lock me out of the walled garden. Ironically, all the Apple security measures do now is prevent me from correcting the theft. I cannot restore the AppleID because they control the phone number and Apple, of course, is not going to change that number based on a phone call. They used ApplePay to reward themselves with a $10,000 performance bonus which I was just barely able to stop when GS tapped my Chase account for the money. I hope GS doesn't get hurt by this, they are such fine upstanding fellows. So far, I have not lost money from this. I feel sort of like Scrooge McDuck after the Beagle Boys have tunneled in. I have to admit that I have been lax with protecting my computer since it is a Mac, but believe me, the threats are real. So far the financial damage is dwarfed by damage I have done to myself with my options trading, so there is that. OK, that's it. Just a cautionary tale. Please don't tell me what an idiot I am, I am already aware of it. Back to your cables. Bud, I am so sorry, I think that this is most people’s nightmare. Once the dust has settled please let us know what could have been done to prevent this from happening. I fear that we all may be vulnerable and it’s just a roll of the dice away.
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Post by zzmac on Jan 25, 2020 5:32:36 GMT -8
Not to spoil the party but I see the potential of the coronavirus over in China to really hurt Apple’s forward momentum. Hong Kong is now being quarantined. Does anyone know how far away Foxconn is from Wuhan where it all started?
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Post by Dave on Jan 25, 2020 5:45:24 GMT -8
Not to spoil the party but I see the potential of the coronavirus over in China to really hurt Apple’s forward momentum. Hong Kong is now being quarantined. Does anyone know how far away Foxconn is from Wuhan where it all started? I hadn’t considered the affect this could have on manufacturing for Apple. Hopefully this outbreak is quickly brought under control.
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Post by 4aapl on Jan 26, 2020 20:14:36 GMT -8
NO idea really. I ran Norton virus scan and found some suspicious files. I recently subscribed to a weekly email from DuPont Registry using a pop-up on their site. That may have given them my email address and might have been a phishing scheme. I cannot prove it, but the timing was about right. My only indication that something was wrong was that I started being flooded with emails saying,"Thank you for joining our site. click here to verify your email" I didn't respond to any of them. I posted this to alert the group to the fact that MAC OS is no longer the virus free zone we have enjoyed. DuPont Registry may be a perfectly clean site, I don't know, but if I were looking for people worth hacking, it would certainly be a site where they would go. I have let them know about it. Sorry about your troubles. One option is to boot into safe mode (while holding down shift I believe) to have fewer things load. Or boot into another disk, internal or external. You can even do a fresh install onto another disk. And then deal with the problematic one. I wouldn't necessarily equate getting junk mail as a start of the problem. An email address is easy to harvest and it takes no effort to sign up an email to a website. I'd gone through times where there has been an uptick in junk, including notes saying I just signed up for such and such website. Luckily, most don't continue sending you stuff if you don't click "confirm". I'm betting the person subscribing people makes a little money per email, or more if someone actual confirms, though it could be more nefarious of some of them being fake sites just trying to nab your info. Like Dave asked, post some more info if you figure it out. My parents had some malware on their Mac, where they think it likely came from clicking on a popup. Malwarebytes took care of it.
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