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Post by aaplsauce on Nov 18, 2021 23:31:56 GMT -8
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Post by benoir on Nov 19, 2021 0:37:51 GMT -8
‘I’ll have another serve of Thursday, thanks’
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Post by dmiller on Nov 19, 2021 7:09:04 GMT -8
Come on $160….
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Post by CdnPhoto on Nov 19, 2021 7:14:37 GMT -8
Hoping to keep Artman busy for a while ahead.
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Post by artman1033 on Nov 19, 2021 7:34:19 GMT -8
AAPL ALL TIME HIGH!$161.02All Time Highest TODAY intraday 111,823,351 shares traded today
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Post by 4aapl on Nov 19, 2021 8:18:35 GMT -8
Nice to see some follow thru.
FWIW, it's across many of the tech names. Not a bad thing, just like having MSFT overtake the market cap lead wasn't a bad thing....though Apple is back in the lead as of yesterday.
This is that time range, where on good years it can be a race between confirmation of a good consumer season, and getting in before others realize that. Years ago it wasn't until the release of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales results, but over the last decade it has been creeping forward as stock purchasers try to beat the rush, bolstered by companies try to push forward consumer holiday spending so they can grab more of it before their competitors do.
It's the same thing we saw around MWSF, or new iPhones coming out and initial sales figures given. A whole lot of rhyming going on.
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Post by chinacat on Nov 19, 2021 9:09:30 GMT -8
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Post by eastbaybob on Nov 19, 2021 9:12:13 GMT -8
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Post by BillH on Nov 19, 2021 11:10:25 GMT -8
Apple hired the head of Porche's platform design. Our Panamera wagon already raises and lowers the suspension so it must have something to do with the locking feature.
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Post by podboy on Nov 19, 2021 12:21:53 GMT -8
Of course, I sell covered calls this week (157.5 strike) against my 7000+ shares to net $450. Cost me a cool $20k. The only other time my calls got exercised was the 4:1 split, which stung more. I guess I can't be too upset with having to pay the piper, it takes risk to play the game. This week was an overall good one, just could have been better.
Just venting, thanks for everyone's contributions on this board, it is a very valuable resource for me. Thanks again.
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Post by 4aapl on Nov 19, 2021 12:57:33 GMT -8
Apple hired the head of Porche's platform design. Our Panamera wagon already raises and lowers the suspension so it must have something to do with the locking feature. Raising/lowering suspension has been on a lot of different vehicles across the board, including buses and the Lexus version of the Land Cruiser. On the Lexus it is air based, and I've read that is a point of failure when looking at 15-20 year old ones. On the bus at Zion I believe it was air based too, though there is also the choice of hydraulics. It looks like this patent is based more on a traditional car suspension system, giving a way to do it assumedly at a lower cost and potentially longer lifespan. I don't know if any of the raise/lower systems are similar whereas this is putting in the locking system. But one of those pictures, with basically a screw jack inside, makes sense. I would think it would wear a lot if used while in motion (ie to use that system to be able to fine tune suspension to your environment), but using when stopped (or nearly stopped as the patent mentions) should still give it a long life. There are definitely times where it is nice to have a little extra height. This week there was a bad accident on our highway, and so it was shut down for 5 hours, with the reroutes nearly a 2 hour detour. The old highway wraps behind the ski resort and is now mostly dirt, but I had been back there a few years ago with the 4runner. Being careful with wheel placement, and happy that most of the snow had melted, I was able to make it through with the minivan. The new ones are a couple inches lower, and I don't think it would have made it. If their clearance height difference is for accessibility instead of gas mileage, then a suspension that could lower when stopped would be helpful, while giving some extra room when we have snow to go over, or a rutted out dirt road.
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Post by duckpins on Nov 19, 2021 13:03:54 GMT -8
Of course, I sell covered calls this week (157.5 strike) against my 7000+ shares to net $450. Cost me a cool $20k. The only other time my calls got exercised was the 4:1 split, which stung more. I guess I can't be too upset with having to pay the piper, it takes risk to play the game. This week was an overall good one, just could have been better. Just venting, thanks for everyone's contributions on this board, it is a very valuable resource for me. Thanks again. I sell CC in strong uptrends only on margin. That way happy to see the rise and can always sell further out in the event of small down turn. I got in at 156 at the first sold several CC weekly, got hit by the dip and sold the Dec 160s. Not unhappy at all. Meanwhile Hindenburg Omen showing says to be careful! out there is dangerous.
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Post by duckpins on Nov 19, 2021 13:05:50 GMT -8
Apple hired the head of Porche's platform design.
Anyone buying a TSLA who can afford a Porsche is nuts or devoid of taste. The influx of design personal from there is a good thing.
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Post by duckpins on Nov 19, 2021 13:06:33 GMT -8
Off topic of stock but...all my Birthdays disappeared today from the Calendar?
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Post by 4aapl on Nov 19, 2021 13:07:51 GMT -8
Of course, I sell covered calls this week (157.5 strike) against my 7000+ shares to net $450. Cost me a cool $20k. The only other time my calls got exercised was the 4:1 split, which stung more. I guess I can't be too upset with having to pay the piper, it takes risk to play the game. This week was an overall good one, just could have been better. Just venting, thanks for everyone's contributions on this board, it is a very valuable resource for me. Thanks again. I did a similar thing once last year, after my broker said "you know, some people with a bunch of shares sometimes like to write OTM weekly calls..." Opps Sometimes, even after extended times of AAPL not doing much, it leaps up a little, seemingly just to keep things interesting. Nice daily volume on those weekly options! 518k @160. Someone is being active. OTOH, if I was running a really big fund, it might be tempting to think that a future 1% tax on stock buybacks would get companies that are doing a lot of buybacks to possibly multiply their buybacks in the tail end of this year, pushing forward part or all of their '22 buybacks to now. How much of a bump would it cause in AAPL, if Apple put half of their planned '22 buybacks into this last ~40 days of the year?
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Post by Luckychoices on Nov 19, 2021 13:36:20 GMT -8
Not AAPL's best ever showing by November...but certainly not the worst. If 2021 ends with AAPL *only* up 22%, you'll hear no complaints from me. 😎 As I said yesterday...not AAPL's best ever showing by November...but certainly not the worst. If 2021 ends with AAPL *only* up 24.1%, you'll hear no complaints from me. 😂
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Post by JDSoCal on Nov 19, 2021 15:39:33 GMT -8
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Post by crispin on Nov 19, 2021 16:33:00 GMT -8
Not AAPL's best ever showing by November...but certainly not the worst. If 2021 ends with AAPL *only* up 22%, you'll hear no complaints from me. 😎 View AttachmentAs I said yesterday...not AAPL's best ever showing by November...but certainly not the worst. If 2021 ends with AAPL *only* up 24.1%, you'll hear no complaints from me. 😂 View AttachmentIt's not going to excite the meme stock or crypto kiddies, but slow and steady is A-OK with me. Especially at our market cap. Today was a good way to start the weekend. Congrats to the longs.
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Post by JDSoCal on Nov 19, 2021 16:50:23 GMT -8
It's not going to excite the meme stock or crypto kiddies, but slow and steady is A-OK with me. Especially at our market cap. Today was a good way to start the weekend. Congrats to the longs.
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Post by coma on Nov 19, 2021 17:00:37 GMT -8
Off topic of stock but...all my Birthdays disappeared today from the Calendar? How old were you the last time you saw them ? . . .
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Post by 4aapl on Nov 20, 2021 11:36:00 GMT -8
Off topic of stock but...all my Birthdays disappeared today from the Calendar? Any chance that you have them entered on a different "calendar", and that it got unchecked? I think we have several on ours. On my wife's, for a couple weeks with the new iPhone she had notifications turned off, so while her hair appointment reminder or whatnot was popping up on all other devices, she wasn't seeing it directly. Technology can be fun, or frustrating.
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Post by 4aapl on Nov 20, 2021 12:48:25 GMT -8
The article points out 2 other "major feature changes" to be made in the future, in addition to the "going EV" and "self-driving" features we talked about this week. And those are loosing the steering wheel and pedals (ie not just self-driving, but only self-driving), and going to being a service (ie shared or basically a taxi, instead of having ownership). I can see the "shared" thing in an ideal world, and it would solve a bunch of things. But, aside from being like GM with their first EVs and not wanting people to own them (possibly for liability, being able to pull the plug like they ended up doing, and shredding the cars), it doesn't seem like a "shared" system would have to be absolute. And for a lot of us, we are used to storing stuff nearly permanently in our car, whether that's sports stuff, tools, a car seat, wipes/mask/trash, a reuseable silverware and straw set, or anything. The thing is that if looking only at absolutes, nearly nothing can change, ever. But if looking at just a certain segment, or differing options for different needs, it can all start to come together. Dropping the steering wheel and pedals will be quite a change, but it does seem on track to happen in the next few decades, and like dropping the floppy someone has to do it first. Maybe it starts as a test or even just stats, like the Duo 200 series did years before the iMac. Or maybe it's like the "automatic vs manual" on cars, where for a while it's consumer choice by giving both options, but then suddenly a new model comes out that no longer has both options. And like all things from the past, some have fond memories and tend to idolize how things used to be, but the masses slowly move on and really don't care much about it. Like all new technology, sometimes it's hard to decide when to buy into it, or to know how long a complete cycle refresh will take. One comparison is the switchover to CFLs, and then LEDs, all in the last 2 decades. Those took a while, even at a low price point, though you might still have a couple traditional bulbs used somewhere, especially in lower usage cases. Reading lamp? Attic/crawlspace? Holiday lights? A car can have a long lifespan, both overall and individual ownership. It will take a while for things to filter in, but I remember a 60 minutes episode from probably 1988 or so about this new technology put in a few cars, and how shocking it was to see a person walk away from a serious highway speed crash with barely a scratch. Airbags are universal in the US now, and have been for decades. Those of us that sometimes drive old vehicles tend to find ways to not worry about it as much, but seeing the aftermath of a 1 foot overlap crash on a highway, the newer explorer had it's airbags deploy and the driver was ok, but the old Cherokee didn't fare as well, with the driver dying and passenger in bad shape. It was a sad situation, but only one of 5+ deaths from traffic accidents in the past 2 weeks, in a smaller area that normally doesn't have any. At least most were driver error, though it's hard to know if self-driving would have avoided all of them. Teaching the system to potentially sacrifice itself, by taking the emergency truck ramp when pulling a very overweighted load down a big hill and not having trailer brakes (F350 pulling a 44' boat on a 5 axle trailer, at 38,000 lbs), could be one of those edge cases that doesn't get properly get input into the self-driving knowledge-base. We'll see what comes out, from Apple. But hopefully this also puts the torch under the seat of other current and future players, and gets everyone to up their game. That's where the real progress happens, like breaking the 4 minute mile, where the whole field is pushing forward.
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Post by JDSoCal on Nov 21, 2021 8:58:09 GMT -8
The article points out 2 other "major feature changes" to be made in the future, in addition to the "going EV" and "self-driving" features we talked about this week. And those are loosing the steering wheel and pedals (ie not just self-driving, but only self-driving), and going to being a service (ie shared or basically a taxi, instead of having ownership). I can see the "shared" thing in an ideal world, and it would solve a bunch of things. But, aside from being like GM with their first EVs and not wanting people to own them (possibly for liability, being able to pull the plug like they ended up doing, and shredding the cars), it doesn't seem like a "shared" system would have to be absolute. And for a lot of us, we are used to storing stuff nearly permanently in our car, whether that's sports stuff, tools, a car seat, wipes/mask/trash, a reuseable silverware and straw set, or anything. The thing is that if looking only at absolutes, nearly nothing can change, ever. But if looking at just a certain segment, or differing options for different needs, it can all start to come together. Dropping the steering wheel and pedals will be quite a change, but it does seem on track to happen in the next few decades, and like dropping the floppy someone has to do it first. Maybe it starts as a test or even just stats, like the Duo 200 series did years before the iMac. Or maybe it's like the "automatic vs manual" on cars, where for a while it's consumer choice by giving both options, but then suddenly a new model comes out that no longer has both options. And like all things from the past, some have fond memories and tend to idolize how things used to be, but the masses slowly move on and really don't care much about it. Like all new technology, sometimes it's hard to decide when to buy into it, or to know how long a complete cycle refresh will take. One comparison is the switchover to CFLs, and then LEDs, all in the last 2 decades. Those took a while, even at a low price point, though you might still have a couple traditional bulbs used somewhere, especially in lower usage cases. Reading lamp? Attic/crawlspace? Holiday lights? A car can have a long lifespan, both overall and individual ownership. It will take a while for things to filter in, but I remember a 60 minutes episode from probably 1988 or so about this new technology put in a few cars, and how shocking it was to see a person walk away from a serious highway speed crash with barely a scratch. Airbags are universal in the US now, and have been for decades. Those of us that sometimes drive old vehicles tend to find ways to not worry about it as much, but seeing the aftermath of a 1 foot overlap crash on a highway, the newer explorer had it's airbags deploy and the driver was ok, but the old Cherokee didn't fare as well, with the driver dying and passenger in bad shape. It was a sad situation, but only one of 5+ deaths from traffic accidents in the past 2 weeks, in a smaller area that normally doesn't have any. At least most were driver error, though it's hard to know if self-driving would have avoided all of them. Teaching the system to potentially sacrifice itself, by taking the emergency truck ramp when pulling a very overweighted load down a big hill and not having trailer brakes (F350 pulling a 44' boat on a 5 axle trailer, at 38,000 lbs), could be one of those edge cases that doesn't get properly get input into the self-driving knowledge-base. We'll see what comes out, from Apple. But hopefully this also puts the torch under the seat of other current and future players, and gets everyone to up their game. That's where the real progress happens, like breaking the 4 minute mile, where the whole field is pushing forward. Interestingly, the first US patent for an automatically deploying airbag was in 1968. The Germans and Japanese were tinkering with them even earlier. I joke with my students that someday, their grandchildren will ask, "tell us again how you operated cars with your hands and feet!" But I hope that doesn't happen while I am still driving.
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Post by 4aapl on Nov 22, 2021 16:52:17 GMT -8
The article points out 2 other "major feature changes" to be made in the future, in addition to the "going EV" and "self-driving" features we talked about this week. And those are loosing the steering wheel and pedals (ie not just self-driving, but only self-driving), and going to being a service (ie shared or basically a taxi, instead of having ownership). I can see the "shared" thing in an ideal world, and it would solve a bunch of things. But, aside from being like GM with their first EVs and not wanting people to own them (possibly for liability, being able to pull the plug like they ended up doing, and shredding the cars), it doesn't seem like a "shared" system would have to be absolute. And for a lot of us, we are used to storing stuff nearly permanently in our car, whether that's sports stuff, tools, a car seat, wipes/mask/trash, a reuseable silverware and straw set, or anything. The thing is that if looking only at absolutes, nearly nothing can change, ever. But if looking at just a certain segment, or differing options for different needs, it can all start to come together. Dropping the steering wheel and pedals will be quite a change, but it does seem on track to happen in the next few decades, and like dropping the floppy someone has to do it first. Maybe it starts as a test or even just stats, like the Duo 200 series did years before the iMac. Or maybe it's like the "automatic vs manual" on cars, where for a while it's consumer choice by giving both options, but then suddenly a new model comes out that no longer has both options. And like all things from the past, some have fond memories and tend to idolize how things used to be, but the masses slowly move on and really don't care much about it. Like all new technology, sometimes it's hard to decide when to buy into it, or to know how long a complete cycle refresh will take. One comparison is the switchover to CFLs, and then LEDs, all in the last 2 decades. Those took a while, even at a low price point, though you might still have a couple traditional bulbs used somewhere, especially in lower usage cases. Reading lamp? Attic/crawlspace? Holiday lights? A car can have a long lifespan, both overall and individual ownership. It will take a while for things to filter in, but I remember a 60 minutes episode from probably 1988 or so about this new technology put in a few cars, and how shocking it was to see a person walk away from a serious highway speed crash with barely a scratch. Airbags are universal in the US now, and have been for decades. Those of us that sometimes drive old vehicles tend to find ways to not worry about it as much, but seeing the aftermath of a 1 foot overlap crash on a highway, the newer explorer had it's airbags deploy and the driver was ok, but the old Cherokee didn't fare as well, with the driver dying and passenger in bad shape. It was a sad situation, but only one of 5+ deaths from traffic accidents in the past 2 weeks, in a smaller area that normally doesn't have any. At least most were driver error, though it's hard to know if self-driving would have avoided all of them. Teaching the system to potentially sacrifice itself, by taking the emergency truck ramp when pulling a very overweighted load down a big hill and not having trailer brakes (F350 pulling a 44' boat on a 5 axle trailer, at 38,000 lbs), could be one of those edge cases that doesn't get properly get input into the self-driving knowledge-base. We'll see what comes out, from Apple. But hopefully this also puts the torch under the seat of other current and future players, and gets everyone to up their game. That's where the real progress happens, like breaking the 4 minute mile, where the whole field is pushing forward. Interestingly, the first US patent for an automatically deploying airbag was in 1968. The Germans and Japanese were tinkering with them even earlier. I joke with my students that someday, their grandchildren will ask, "tell us again how you operated cars with your hands and feet!" But I hope that doesn't happen while I am still driving. It will take a while for new cars to filter in. It will be slower if there is a high extra cost. It will be quicker if the stats show that it's really a big benefit. I'd guess at 30-40 years from introduction, giving 10-20 years to make it standard, and then a 20 year exchange for 90-95% of vehicles out there. In NV I could get "classic" plates starting at 20 years, but my 4runner is now 30 years old, though not even at 200k yet. Seeing what I do now, and trying to put it into perspective, most of the major safety benefits in the past 30-40 years, primarily airbags and crumple zones, have been pretty important especially in 50+ MPH crashes. Slightly more minor, I like the push for blind spot monitoring, automatic emergency braking, parking sensors, and a rear camera. And I like seeing that some companies are putting most of that on all cars now (I believe backup cameras are now required, as of 2 years ago or so). The new Sienna has most of those on all levels, though I think the parking sensors you still have to go up a level, which is pretty petty. Likewise, I bought a recent huge F150. It has rear parking sensors and a camera, which help. But it's so huge that it really needs front sensors or a camera too. And I just don't understand making it tough to get blind spot monitoring on something that size. There was nearly no possibility of getting it, since it was with upper trim packages whereas those also switched to a 5 seater, whereas we wanted 6. And Automatic Emergency Braking became standard, but not until 2019. On airbags, I believe they became standard in 1989 if I remember right, but that was just on cars. On trucks and SUVs, it was a few years later, so my '92 4runner doesn't have them, but they went it on the new revision in '96. FWIW, they claim the accident I was behind was a '99 Cherokee vs a '20 Explorer. The pics show the airbags on the Explorer, but I though the Jeep was older and didn't have them. Cars.com says they did. Sometimes, nothing will save you. Maybe I'll just get the dream activity vehicle from '99 of an old school bus, and know that if anything gets in my way I'll have a significant kinetic energy advantage. Except from a snow plow. You're kinda screwed no matter what, if you hit one of those, even with an original humvee (imagine having one of the Power Computing ones, from MWSF '96?) or a Unimog, both crazy vehicles that I have contemplated.
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