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Post by rob_london on Feb 24, 2014 2:37:52 GMT -8
From the latest smartphone sales data from Kantar, for the three months to January 2014:
"For Apple, there are encouraging signs as sales of its 5C model start to take off. When Apple first launched its new iPhones in Britain the 5S outsold the 5C by 3:1. However, the iPhone 5C has gained momentum and was the third best-selling smartphone over the past three months, reducing the 5S/C ratio to 2:1. There is a stark gender divide between 5C and 5S buyers – in Britain 74% of 5C buyers are female versus just 36% for the 5S. There are also clear differences in how each device is used. 5S users are more engaged with their device, particularly for data heavy functions such as watching mobile TV or downloading music."
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Post by phoebear611 on Feb 24, 2014 3:24:56 GMT -8
The only two pieces of news I'm seeing out there or being chatted up this morning is the iOS security download over the weekend that AAPL put out and that one is now being worked on for Mac computers...AND the failure of Samsung and AAPL to reach an agreement on patents (Friday's news) and will meet in court next month. Don't forget that the shareholder meeting is Feb 28th (Friday) at 9:00 PST - on PIN day! Also, the $522 Fib (retrace) number seems somewhat gravitational this morning. Stock is down in PM on virtually no shares. Yellen speaks on Thursday FWIW. In other news, Comcast and Netflix announced an agreement Sunday in which Netflix will pay Comcast for faster and more reliable access to Comcast’s subscribers. Does this affect AAPL TV in any way?....or the future of the ever-elusive new and improved AAPL TV? Lastly, another reminder, It is the annual Mobile World Conference in Barcelona - a trade show for the mobile sector, with a brief that roams from smartphones and tablets to fast-emerging new areas such as wearable technology and the internet of things. As we all know, APPL doesn't participate but can certainly be affected with little tidbits of news coming from there....like big focus on emerging markets.
Does anyone else feel that AAPL is like the old 45 speed records and the rest of the technology world is on 78? I guess you need to be old enough to know what a record is first.
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Post by phoebear611 on Feb 24, 2014 3:35:26 GMT -8
Oh for the love of Pete - Ronnie Moas (Standpoint) - the lunatic that doesn't take his meds and downgraded AAPL based on "moral issues" along with other stocks - is reiterating his sell this morning. Gimme a break already ... what a freak! He must have run out of meds again.
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Post by jmolloy on Feb 24, 2014 3:37:58 GMT -8
Oh for the love of Pete - Ronnie Moas (Standpoint) - the lunatic that doesn't take his meds and downgraded AAPL based on "moral issues" along with other stocks - is reiterating his sell this morning. Gimme a break already ... what a freak! He must have run out of meds again. For a quick reminder, this is what he did back in Jan when he went to "sell" video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000235950Now we've got BI's Jay Yarow tweeting this crap in UPPER CASE with no context. Moronic.
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Post by artman1033 on Feb 24, 2014 4:42:53 GMT -8
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Post by artman1033 on Feb 24, 2014 5:21:43 GMT -8
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Post by jmolloy on Feb 24, 2014 5:36:45 GMT -8
WHOA? Facebook (FB) Target Lifted to $80 at Needham & Company on WhatsApp Deal Spend your way to a fortune... I assume that this means if you have a ton of money and a getting it in in droves = bad Spending bucket loads of cash = great! In other news... UK's "Superbrands" survey has British Airways in first place... Meanwhile Apple, in one year, fell from number two position to number 14, way below Google, Microsoft et al. This smells like something rotten. www.superbrands.uk.com/results
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Post by artman1033 on Feb 24, 2014 5:42:59 GMT -8
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Post by artman1033 on Feb 24, 2014 5:56:51 GMT -8
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Post by phoebear611 on Feb 24, 2014 6:12:16 GMT -8
I have to assume that AAPL is soft for reasons (maybe technical?) other than Moas' comments --- if not, some AAPL holders are idiots out there!
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Post by firestorm on Feb 24, 2014 7:00:02 GMT -8
MacRumors has a story this morning that Google is planning to launch a smart watch with LG in June. When will Amazon follow suit? Apple's saving grace for its watch will be the rumored emphasis on health monitoring that could be groundbreaking. Let's hope so.
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Post by firestorm on Feb 24, 2014 7:02:55 GMT -8
I have to assume that AAPL is soft for reasons (maybe technical?) other than Moas' comments --- if not, some AAPL holders are idiots out there! AAPL is soft because Apple hasn't stimulated it with new toys. Sorry about that, but I couldn't resist. In any event, AAPL is up this morning, so there still might be some rationality in the market.
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Post by artman1033 on Feb 24, 2014 7:30:24 GMT -8
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Post by rickag on Feb 24, 2014 7:38:28 GMT -8
AAPL started on top of the Selling on Strength list, now down to #5 on the list All block trades made on downticks. Selling on StrengthThere are 16 million short shares, quite a bit lower than the numbers we saw months ago at around 40 million. AAPL Short Interest
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Post by mark on Feb 24, 2014 7:45:27 GMT -8
I have to assume that AAPL is soft for reasons (maybe technical?) other than Moas' comments --- if not, some AAPL holders are idiots out there! Reason? Of course there's a reason. The price has to be as low as possible before the institutions (hedge funds included) jump in just before the new category announcements come out later this year.
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Post by artman1033 on Feb 24, 2014 7:46:55 GMT -8
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Post by Lstream on Feb 24, 2014 8:33:00 GMT -8
I have to assume that AAPL is soft for reasons (maybe technical?) other than Moas' comments --- if not, some AAPL holders are idiots out there! Reason? Of course there's a reason. The price has to be as low as possible before the institutions (hedge funds included) jump in just before the new category announcements come out later this year. Only if we ignore the obvious and continue believing in conspiracies. That Apple transitioned from a high growth company to almost a stalled company very rapidly. And that management's communication style is to say nothing that outlines any sort of vision. Or that EPS growth is benefiting from financial engineering and not improved results. In other words, a "show-me" stock, which is not showing. Until they do, the market will not trust the stock or give it the benefit of the doubt. And it will be pushed around by rumour and innuendo. Apple does nothing to defend itself or its shareholders so they are an easy target of manipulators if the stock is indeed being manipulated.
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Post by mark on Feb 24, 2014 8:51:20 GMT -8
Reason? Of course there's a reason. The price has to be as low as possible before the institutions (hedge funds included) jump in just before the new category announcements come out later this year. Only if we ignore the obvious and continue believing in conspiracies. That Apple transitioned from a high growth company to almost a stalled company very rapidly. And that management's communication style is to say nothing that outlines any sort of vision. Or that EPS growth is benefiting from financial engineering and not improved results. In other words, a "show-me" stock, which is not showing. Until they do, the market will not trust the stock or give it the benefit of the doubt. And it will be pushed around by rumour and innuendo. Apple does nothing to defend itself or its shareholders so they are an easy target of manipulators if the stock is indeed being manipulated. It has nothing to do with conspiracies. I very strongly disbelieve in market conspiracies, certainly with such large and well-capitalized ones. It's been shown time and time again that it is impossible (the amount of capital required is higher, often substantially higher, than the amount of gains garnered) to "game" the stocks of large, well-capitalized companies. But it does have to do with the natural ebb and flow of investing, when there are few things of interest going on, involvement in the stock goes down (look at volume as one indicator, or institutional investment as another, etc), and when rumors of new things come along, involvement suddenly goes up, and if those new things look like they might pan out, the price rises on expectations of higher income. That's how the world works.
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Post by zzmac on Feb 24, 2014 9:04:26 GMT -8
I have to assume that AAPL is soft for reasons (maybe technical?) other than Moas' comments --- if not, some AAPL holders are idiots out there! Reason? Of course there's a reason. The price has to be as low as possible before the institutions (hedge funds included) jump in just before the new category announcements come out later this year. And so Apple can buy back more shares.
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Post by zzmac on Feb 24, 2014 9:12:17 GMT -8
Going to Maui next week. I wish Apple would come out with an iSharkRepellent.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 9:32:43 GMT -8
I wonder if this is the year that they hammer the board at the shareholders meetings...its been 2 years now of dissapointing share performance, how much longer can the big shareholders be tolerant for?
Almost every other stock is setting record highs and a lot have doubled or more in the past 2 years and Apple isnt showing any reason to buy it, other than guessing at a new product...why not wait a few months until the pics and teardowns of the product become more reliable before you buy
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Post by macwire on Feb 24, 2014 9:37:10 GMT -8
Aapl is soft because it's in a basically flat growth purgatory. Period. Forget the analysts. Buy backs. Whatever. Barely any growth to flat growth.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 9:46:17 GMT -8
Aapl is soft because it's in a basically flat growth purgatory. Period. Forget the analysts. Buy backs. Whatever. Barely any growth to flat growth. Exactly...why buy a no growth company? If a new product gets released, buy it then...lots of time to run up if a new category comes out.
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Post by archibaldtuttle on Feb 24, 2014 10:19:45 GMT -8
Anyone know a source for seeing how AAPL performed relative to the other 499 stocks in the S&P, say over the last year or other timeframes?
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Post by rob_london on Feb 24, 2014 10:53:16 GMT -8
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Post by macwire on Feb 24, 2014 11:52:31 GMT -8
Double bottom aapl on the daily. Stops at 523...
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Post by gvsmitty19 on Feb 24, 2014 12:01:40 GMT -8
Nice. Direct correlation between AAPL's stock rise this afternoon and Samsung bombing another presentation.
Man, that is one ugly phone. Flattened out golf ball.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 12:16:25 GMT -8
Wow...the new Galaxy comes with a Fingerprint Scanner and it even comes in Gold. I wonder where they got those ideas from...how long till 64 bit?
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Post by BillH on Feb 24, 2014 12:45:16 GMT -8
Though generally favorable to the new S-5 The Verge commented that the fingerprint scanner didn't work particularly well. I'm shocked I tell you.
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Post by JDSoCal on Feb 24, 2014 12:57:35 GMT -8
Anyone know a source for seeing how AAPL performed relative to the other 499 stocks in the S&P, say over the last year or other timeframes? Yahoo has nice interactive charts.
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