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Post by phoebear611 on Jun 10, 2013 2:42:32 GMT -8
Well this is the week of the conference - rumors are abound. It's going to be a good week...yesterday was my birthday so I fully expect a nice birthday surprise from TC .... because "if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!" We are nicely green in the PM....cheers to the longs...and fingers crossed I get my birthday wish!
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Post by redinaustin on Jun 10, 2013 2:49:47 GMT -8
From MacRumors
With just hours to go before today's keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off, the company has brought back its "Apple Events" channel on the Apple TV, indicating that it will be streaming live video of the event.
A similar channel appeared before Apple's iPad mini media event last October, and the company later revealed that it would also be streaming the event through its website. Apple has, however, yet to confirm that it will be streaming the WWDC 2013 keynote through its website.
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Post by appledoc on Jun 10, 2013 3:33:28 GMT -8
Happy belated birthday phoebes!
With about a 4 point gain today, we can reclaim the daily SMA8/10/20/100. Along with getting bullish divergence on the daily MACDh, that's what I'm looking for today.
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Post by appledoc on Jun 10, 2013 3:37:57 GMT -8
It would behoove TC and Apple to have Jony be an important part of the presentation today.
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Post by phoebear611 on Jun 10, 2013 3:48:04 GMT -8
It would behoove TC and Apple to have Jony be an important part of the presentation today. I completely agree - and all this nonsense about stage fright - well, then someone get this guy a coach to help him feel more comfortable -- that's why they make the big bucks! For the love of Pete, there are so many ways of presenting that can minimize his stage time and have it flow smoothly! C'mon already! What time does this all start?
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Post by rickag on Jun 10, 2013 4:33:59 GMT -8
Live streaming on Apple TV of the WWDC @ 1pm Eastern.
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Post by jmolloy on Jun 10, 2013 4:34:54 GMT -8
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Post by artman1033 on Jun 10, 2013 5:33:39 GMT -8
Below is a "big picture" email I received from John Strand, a Denmark based TELCO advisor.
IMHO: Mr. Strand believes TELCOs should control their marketplace, not the cellphone makers or software companies.
It is as if your local electric company controlled the devices you could plug into an electric socket.
I believe Apple just wants a "pipe" not a partner. The posting does show the fear and disruption a Facebook post can do to a company.
Many are talking about net neutrality, and it’s high on the EU’s policymaking agenda. The debate about the open internet is important, but is one-sided. Supporters of net neutrality overlook the many instances of discrimination on the internet to focus exclusively on internet service providers (ISPs). They fail to mention the discrimination that occurs where people spend the overwhelming part of their time on the internet: Facebook. Indeed a large number of people think Facebook is the internet. There are many ways to discriminate. There is an understanding that “the face of discrimination has many faces”. People can discriminate based on race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, class and so on. In the same way, the debate on net neutrality focuses exclusively on ISPs but forgets all the other players in the internet value chain that discriminate: platforms, operating systems, and devices. Facebook is one of the most discriminatory actors of the web. It employs discrimination behind the scenes, and it can have a negative impact to individuals and companies. As the number of users has grown, Facebook needed a way to control its server costs. In practice, it shows only about 17% of your posts to your friends, and by the same token, you see only about 17% of the posts from your friends and the websites that you like. If you want better reach, you need to pay Facebook. To be sure, users have some ability to customize their settings, but Facebook still needs to earn revenue by maximizing eyeballs to advertisements. As such it employs an algorithm to “throttle up” and “throttle down” the volume of certain posts. If Facebook thinks a post will drive a lot of traffic, it shows that post to more people. It if thinks the post is boring, it doesn’t distribute that post. Make no mistake. There can be consequences to what Facebook deems is engaging or not. Consider the case of Telenor in Denmark. A banal complaint about the enrollment process on Telenor Denmark’s Facebook page gained 26,000 Likes in less than a day and thousands of comments. The incident was picked up by the press and mentioned in 20 articles online and on the TV news. Telenor was also profiled in a prime time TV show titled “Piles of Complaints About Telenor”. When the issue cooled down about a week after it started, more than 32,000 Likes for the complaint and more than 3500 comments were collected. The Telenor customer made the complaint at the end of the working day when Telenor support staff finished their shift. Through the night, Facebook turned up the volume on the post showing it across users in Facebook Denmark, most were not even customers of Telenor or even friends of the user who made the post. The next working day Telenor called the angry customer to resolve the issue. Not only did he get a refund, but Telenor refunded all the customers who had used that enrollment service--even though they hadn't complained. Telenor posted their apologies on the Facebook page, but because of the way that Facebook folds posts underneath each other, Telenor’s response got lost in a sea of exchanges. Furthermore Facebook did not mail out the apology to all the people that follow Telenor or the thousands that liked and commented on the post, only to a small subset. Maybe you say that Facebook is the way to get Telenor to admit its mistake. Fair enough, but there are injustices posted every day on Facebook that you will never see. Facebook is invested to drive traffic where it can sell advertising, and if it can stimulate engagement on corporate Facebook pages where companies will be coaxed to purchase services from Facebook to engage with their followers, so much the better. If we applied the same net neutrality rules to Facebook as we to ISPs, it is likely that Facebook would be extinct by now. Imagine a world where your ISP exercised the same discrimination as Facebook, delivering only 17% of your emails. You wouldn’t know who got the messages and who didn’t. Imagine your ISP telling you that if you wanted to deliver the additional 83% of emails, that you would have to pay. Traffic throttling is just one of the many kinds of discrimination that you face on Facebook. Another is that you can’t take your friends with you when you leave Facebook. Companies may have built up a significant following on Facebook with offline marketing, but Facebook won't give the company full access to the followers unless they pay. Transparency on Facebook is another story all together, and not a pretty one. The question is how would people and the political system respond if ISPs began discriminating like Facebook. There would likely be outrage and demands for net neutrality. The discrimination on Facebook exposes that the net neutrality rules are flawed because they ignore the discrimination that happens across the entire internet ecosystem: web platforms, operating systems, and devices. If we will have rules about discrimination, they should apply to all the providers on the web, not just operators. It makes no sense to outlaw discrimination in one part of the internet but to let is flourish on Facebook. In the report "The good, the bad and the ugly side of Facebook – A report that describes how Facebook affects the mobile industry strategically, operationally and financially” Strand Consult recounts the Telenor experience on Facebook. The report details how Facebook discriminated against the Telenor by throttling up the complaint against the Telenor but throttling down the apology from Telenor in response. It’s time for politicians to look at the many internet players employing traffic discrimination and deliberately fighting against a free Internet.
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Post by Mav on Jun 10, 2013 5:43:58 GMT -8
Ah, WWDC day...
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Post by lance on Jun 10, 2013 5:44:03 GMT -8
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Post by wheeles on Jun 10, 2013 5:49:12 GMT -8
...Facebook needed a way to control its server costs. In practice, it shows only about 17% of your posts to your friends, and by the same token, you see only about 17% of the posts from your friends and the websites that you like. Some of the people on my Facebook could use a little throttling back.
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Post by Mav on Jun 10, 2013 6:01:28 GMT -8
appledoc, I'd forgotten he had a little practice when discussing the unibody MBP a few years back. If he follows form (though the venue is much bigger than it was at Apple Town Hall), he'll be as compelling as you've _always_ seen him.
There's no _pressing_ need to bring him out though, necessarily. The usual videos would be just fine since he's the vision guy. There are others who can and should demo as well.
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Post by sponge on Jun 10, 2013 6:19:48 GMT -8
Thanx. Will be in a meeting until just after 10. May be able to listen to part of it on the drive from the meeting. Volume is light for an event day. Bought a call back. Now will wait until we get passed 465 and hold it. It may happen this week but I am not betting on it.
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Post by tuffett on Jun 10, 2013 6:28:14 GMT -8
Not a huge fan of the new icons, but it isn't often that change is perceived as good until it's allowed to sink in for a while. I just hope an equal or greater effort has been out into iOS functionality - both much needed fixes and refinements to existing services such as Siri and Maps as well as some things to surprise us.
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Post by rob_london on Jun 10, 2013 6:31:58 GMT -8
Not surprisingly the Apple Store is down.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 6:38:39 GMT -8
Below is a "big picture" email I received from John Strand, a Denmark based TELCO advisor. IMHO: Mr. Strand believes TELCOs should control their marketplace, not the cellphone makers or software companies. Riiiiiiight. It's not like they did such a good jog advancing ANY part of mobile technology when they had control. Who has the patents that make mobile networks function? It isn't the carriers.
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Post by artman1033 on Jun 10, 2013 6:42:22 GMT -8
Not surprisingly the Apple Store is down. SOME might say: "WHOOP DE DO! There is nothing there. These are not the droids you were looking for!" New computers with the "Haswell" INTEL chip may NOT be market moving. Faster speeds with lower heat output is wonderful, but may not encourage long lines at Apple stores. I reviewed the past two WWDC keynotes Sunday evening. I have a MacBook that is over two years old. It is adequate for me. just sayin..... What say you?
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Post by tuffett on Jun 10, 2013 6:49:47 GMT -8
My MBP is three years old and there's no need to upgrade it yet. More and more of my computing is done on iPhone and iPad.
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Post by icam on Jun 10, 2013 7:12:42 GMT -8
Not a huge fan of the new icons, but it isn't often that change is perceived as good until it's allowed to sink in for a while. I just hope an equal or greater effort has been out into iOS functionality - both much needed fixes and refinements to existing services such as Siri and Maps as well as some things to surprise us. IMO the look of the software takes a back seat to the functionality. I have no doubt Apple will make the software appealing from a visual standpoint. More importantly, the software needs to meet the needs of the users and in the process provide/drive added revenue/revenue streams for Apple.
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Post by appledoc on Jun 10, 2013 7:51:05 GMT -8
Bullish divergence on the daily MACDh if this holds. Support at SMA20 and right now, above all of the daily SMA except for the 200.
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Post by appledoc on Jun 10, 2013 8:09:38 GMT -8
Looking at the list of Apple events on the AppleTV, I can't believe we haven't had an event since October. I have high hopes for today.
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Post by rob_london on Jun 10, 2013 8:33:20 GMT -8
Try and imagine some strange, parallel universe where Tim Cook bounds on stage, chanting "Developers, developers, developers"....
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Post by dreamRaj on Jun 10, 2013 8:40:16 GMT -8
...yesterday was my birthday so I fully expect a nice birthday surprise from TC .... (Belated) birthday wishes to you, Phoebes! If not for anything else, TC should shower a few gifts just for the iMama
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Post by rob_london on Jun 10, 2013 8:43:16 GMT -8
The big question... will Apple iWorks and the Mac Pro finally have their moment in the spotlight again, after years of neglect!
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Post by moltenfire on Jun 10, 2013 8:56:42 GMT -8
Quite exciting to be able to see an event live instead of reading liveblogs
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Post by dreamRaj on Jun 10, 2013 9:00:00 GMT -8
Quite exciting to be able to see an event live instead of reading liveblogs True. The broadcast via Apple TV is awesome!
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Post by JDSoCal on Jun 10, 2013 9:00:05 GMT -8
Mat Kearney instead of The Beatles...
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Post by moltenfire on Jun 10, 2013 9:04:34 GMT -8
So, having brought the rumor, will WS sell on the news?
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Post by phoebear611 on Jun 10, 2013 9:05:38 GMT -8
Love watching this on AAPL-TV...so cool! Also - thanks for your good birthday wishes! C'mon Tim and Jony -- knock it out of the park - thrill me!!!!
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Post by moltenfire on Jun 10, 2013 9:09:00 GMT -8
Kids pick an apple store for their field trips?
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