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Post by CdnPhoto on May 1, 2024 4:02:33 GMT -8
AAPL is currently at $170.05 -0.28 (-0.16%) At least we're over $170.
What happened to the market the during the last few minutes? Re-balancing of funds?
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Post by Dave on May 1, 2024 4:22:02 GMT -8
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Post by zebrum on May 1, 2024 4:42:13 GMT -8
“Wall Street Braces For Brutal Apple Earnings”
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Post by Dave on May 1, 2024 4:43:55 GMT -8
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Post by Dave on May 1, 2024 4:55:44 GMT -8
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Post by zebrum on May 1, 2024 4:59:20 GMT -8
They don't want us to sell before their massive earnings dump
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Post by macster on May 1, 2024 8:34:48 GMT -8
IMO All that is necessary to lower inflation in North America is to drill baby drill here. Get the cost of Dino gold down and it will reverberate throughout the economy in lower costs in transportation, products and services.
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Post by Dave on May 1, 2024 9:26:53 GMT -8
IMO All that is necessary to lower inflation in North America is to drill baby drill here. Get the cost of Dino gold down and it will reverberate throughout the economy in lower costs in transportation, products and services. I agree Macster, reducing the cost of energy would greatly reduce the cost of almost everything. But the Federal Reserve has no control (directly) over the cost of oil, that other guy does. As de-globalization continues in the world and the supply chain continues to fall apart the supply of goods will continue to be strained. And more and more companies will need to bring their manufacturing back into our trading zones. The cost of money will be a determining factor on how quickly and at what cost it will happen. Chairman Powell is chasing consumption when he should be chasing availability. All he is doing is making inflation (the cost of money) worse.
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Post by duckpins on May 1, 2024 11:13:06 GMT -8
Didn't realize earnings were tomorrow and I have to go to the dentist? Cook should have gone for the NBA, it's up for grabs. Or if Disney gets it buy Espn and the NBA rights from them. Soccer is popular elsewhere. But here the NBA and NFL rule, with Caitlin Clark doing for WNBA what Pistol Pete did for the NBA time to buy those rights as well. Put the soccer on the back burner please. Tennis rating are way up as well. The tennis channel would be a nice piece too. Make Apple TV worth something.
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Post by duckpins on May 1, 2024 11:29:31 GMT -8
BRk popped up 5 points on today's news. It pulled back to below 400 after a large move. Between the two stocks doesn't look like anyone is selling before earnings though they all say they expect negative news.
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Post by CdnPhoto on May 1, 2024 12:02:58 GMT -8
Didn't realize earnings were tomorrow and I have to go to the dentist? Cook should have gone for the NBA, it's up for grabs. Or if Disney gets it buy Espn and the NBA rights from them. Soccer is popular elsewhere. But here the NBA and NFL rule, with Caitlin Clark doing for WNBA what Pistol Pete did for the NBA time to buy those rights as well. Put the soccer on the back burner please. Tennis rating are way up as well. The tennis channel would be a nice piece too. Make Apple TV worth something. Is Tim looking at where the puck will be, rather than where it is now? You may be looking at this with a very US centric view. Globally, Soccer is a much bigger game, and has much more draw. Tim might be looking to expand in to other regions.
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Post by Lstream on May 1, 2024 14:17:12 GMT -8
Didn't realize earnings were tomorrow and I have to go to the dentist? Cook should have gone for the NBA, it's up for grabs. Or if Disney gets it buy Espn and the NBA rights from them. Soccer is popular elsewhere. But here the NBA and NFL rule, with Caitlin Clark doing for WNBA what Pistol Pete did for the NBA time to buy those rights as well. Put the soccer on the back burner please. Tennis rating are way up as well. The tennis channel would be a nice piece too. Make Apple TV worth something. Is Tim looking at where the puck will be, rather than where it is now? You may be looking at this with a very US centric view. Globally, Soccer is a much bigger game, and has much more draw. Tim might be looking to expand in to other regions. Soccer is more global for sure. But MLS is basically bush league compared to other geographies. So, I’m not really seeing the appeal outside of North America. Apple should probably aim higher it hopes to have global appeal.
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Post by Luckychoices on May 1, 2024 16:18:35 GMT -8
Is Tim looking at where the puck will be, rather than where it is now? You may be looking at this with a very US centric view. Globally, Soccer is a much bigger game, and has much more draw. Tim might be looking to expand in to other regions. Soccer is more global for sure. But MLS is basically bush league compared to other geographies. So, I’m not really seeing the appeal outside of North America. Apple should probably aim higher it hopes to have global appeal. Perhaps MLS is "...basically bush league compared to other geographies"...however, now it's a bush league with Lionel Messi. ================== Lionel Messi drove 288,000 subscriptions to Apple TV+'s MLS season add-on in his first month in the league* The top soccer player has boosted Apple TV+ subscriptions since arriving at Inter Miami in July. * Apple holds the US streaming rights for the competition and is reaping the benefits of the 'Messi premium'. * Apple TV+ added 110,000 sign-ups to its MLS Season Pass add-on on July 21, Messi's first game for the team.
Apple's streaming service is reaping the rewards of soccer superstar Lionel Messi's arrival at Major League Soccer team Inter Miami.
Apple TV+ saw more than 110,000 sign-ups to its MLS Season Pass add-on on July 21 – the day the Argentine made his debut for Inter Miami, according to analytics firm Antenna and first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Almost half of those who bought the MLS Season Pass during this period were existing Apple TV+ subscribers, while 15% of the total were new customers who also signed up for Apple's subscription service, per Antenna.
This marked a remarkable increase of over 1,690% from the day before. The tech giant added another 65,318 sign-ups to the MLS Season Pass on July 25, when Messi played his second game and scored two goals within the first 30 minutes.
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Post by hledgard on May 1, 2024 16:42:11 GMT -8
I just don't see the appeal to soccer. As a spectator seems almost pointless, sort of like hockey. Hockey also seems pointless.
Really, I must be missing something. NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB - love 'em all.
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Post by Luckychoices on May 1, 2024 18:50:09 GMT -8
I just don't see the appeal to soccer. As a spectator seems almost pointless, sort of like hockey. Hockey also seems pointless. Really, I must be missing something. NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB - love 'em all. Soccer and hockey seem pointless? Yes, many millions of soccer and hockey fans would agree that you "must be missing something". To be clear, I don't watch soccer, either...but then again, I also don't *regularly* watch football, baseball or basketball. Many, many years ago, in the Middle Ages when I was in high school, we had teams for football, baseball, basketball, track and wrestling...but no soccer team. Times have changed and Apple is changing with the times. =============== The US may have lost in the World Cup, but soccer is more popular than ever in AmericaCNN — America is known for being at the top of the list at a lot of things. My home country has, however, historically struggled at the most popular sport worldwide: men’s soccer.
At this year’s World Cup the US Men’s National Team (USMNT) advanced to the round of 16, although the Netherlands defeated it 3-1.
It the USMNT isn’t quite ready to join soccer’s elite nations, the sport is finding record success at home. “The beautiful game” is far more popular than it has ever been, especially among young Americans.
Take a look at how many people say their favorite sport to watch is soccer. Historically, that percentage has been miniscule. From 1937 to 1972, the figure in Gallup polling was always less than 0.5% of Americans giving the answer soccer when asked which their favorite to watch was. Even through December 2004, the percentage never rose above 2%.
Earlier this year, 8% of Americans answered soccer as their favorite sport to watch in a Washington Post poll. This may seem like a small percentage, but it is huge growth given the baseline. There is no other sport that saw anywhere near this type of improvement in its popularity as soccer during this period.
Indeed, nearly as many Americans now call soccer their favorite sport to watch as they do basketball (12%) or baseball (11%). Soccer actually has beaten motor racing, hockey and golf the last few times the Washington Post polled the subject.
My guess is that the number of soccer fans is going to continue to grow over the next few years. Why? Look at the young.
Soccer is most popular among adults under the age of 30. There are actually more adults aged 18 to 29 who say soccer is their favorite sport to watch than those who say baseball is their preferred. Remember that baseball is supposedly America’s pastime.
Of course, American football – the NFL – is still the top sport to watch overall and among all age groups. Over one-third of Americans have for years indicated that it is their top sport to view.
Football may be getting a run for its money from soccer, though, when you examine the long-term trends among the number of high schoolers playing the game.
Forty years ago, soccer was not a terribly popular sport for high schoolers to play. When you combined boys and girls playing the sport, only a little bit more than 200,000 students played the game. For comparison, nearly a million boys played football.
Twenty years ago, over 600,000 boys and girls played soccer. This past year, over 800,000 boys and girls in high school decided to take up the sport with the black and white ball. Put in other mathematical terms, that is nearly 300% growth in the last 40 years.
There is no other sport in America that has taken off as quickly over the last 40 years as soccer among high schoolers.
And while soccer isn’t particularly close to the NFL’s popularity among adults, soccer is closing in amongst high schoolers playing the two sports. What was once an over 700,000-participant gap in the early 1980s between the number of high schoolers taking part in soccer and those playing football has consistently slid downward since. The gap dropped to a little bit more than 400,000 in the early 2000s.
Today, football has just over a 200,000-person advantage over soccer in the number of high schoolers who play the game. Put another way: football has stagnated, while soccer has consistently risen.
What has caused soccer to be nipping at football’s heels in terms of participation?
The most obvious is that soccer is played in large numbers by boys and girls. While football does have some girls playing the game on the high school level, it’s almost uniformly a boys game – especially in contact football. Soccer, meanwhile, has nearly 400,000 girl players. In the early 1980s, that number was about 50,000.
The impact of the success of the US Women’s National Team in America can’t be underestimated. The women consistently do well on the international stage. They’ve won four World Cups to the men’s zero. Less spoken about is that they also rate better on television than the men do in the World Cup.
Safety is a factor as well in soccer’s rise. In an Associated Press poll taken in the 2010s, 86% of parents said they were comfortable letting their kids play soccer given safety concerns. This dropped to 51% for football.
Given that soccer is primarily a fall sport like football, it’s not hard to imagine a lot of parents pushing their children to kick the soccer ball instead of the football.
The question going forward is whether the success of soccer on the high school level will ultimately translate into soccer truly closing the gap with football in the number of adult fans.
We’ll just have to wait and see, though with the US, Canada and Mexico hosting the 2026 World Cup, soccer isn’t going away anytime soon.
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Post by Lstream on May 1, 2024 19:19:47 GMT -8
I just don't see the appeal to soccer. As a spectator seems almost pointless, sort of like hockey. Hockey also seems pointless. Really, I must be missing something. NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB - love 'em all. You are totally missing something. Those sports ARE NOT pointless, just because you don’t like them. France vs Argentina World Cup final was EPIC.
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Post by duckpins on May 2, 2024 9:25:31 GMT -8
Apple's market is for high end phones. Is soccer watched by folks who have the money to buy them or is football and the NBA watched by same? Hockey is a claimed to be a great in person sport. Why not buy a ticket for the goggles so you can have the equivalent of a front row seat at games? This would have mad appeal to NBA and Hockey fans. Courtside seats go for thousands per GAME. Apple could develop subscriptions with these things easily. Tennis and Golf as well. Imagine having the goggles and great seats at all 18 holes of the PGA and basically right on the greens as well? There are lots of opportunities. The 10 billion spent on a car? Give me a Porsche anyway. APPLE needs some direction. Cook is not Jobs.
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Post by hledgard on May 2, 2024 9:47:12 GMT -8
Apple's market is for high end phones. Is soccer watched by folks who have the money to buy them or is football and the NBA watched by same? Hockey is a claimed to be a great in person sport. Why not buy a ticket for the goggles so you can have the equivalent of a front row seat at games? This would have mad appeal to NBA and Hockey fans. Courtside seats go for thousands per GAME. Apple could develop subscriptions with these things easily. Tennis and Golf as well. Imagine having the goggles and great seats at all 18 holes of the PGA and basically right on the greens as well? There are lots of opportunities. The 10 billion spent on a car? Give me a Porsche anyway. APPLE needs some direction. Cook is not Jobs. Great post, duckpins ! ! ! For many reasons ! ! Cook is certainly thoughtful and good, but Apple does indeed some real spark !
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