<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <channel>
    <title>ravenmaster99's Comments</title>
    <description>ravenmaster99's Comments RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com</description>
    <link>http://seekingalpha.com/user/1338531/comments</link>
    <item>
      <title>Will Apple Miss Its Estimates - And Every One After That?</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1051771/comments?source=feed#comment-12370291</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">12370291</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[Do you think that Apple missing estimates is a reflection of Apple's performance, or does it say more about the inability of analysts to listen to Apple's projections and the inability of analysts to have any clue about how to estimate Apple's earnings?]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:34:28 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Do you think that Apple missing estimates is a reflection of Apple's performance, or does it say more about the inability of analysts to listen to Apple's projections and the inability of analysts to have any clue about how to estimate Apple's earnings?]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Some Asian Apple (AAPL -1.8%) news: 1) The iPad Mini has launched to sparse crowds in China. The regular iPad controlled 71% of the Chinese tablet market in Q3, according to Analysys. 2) China Unicom (CHU) took over 200K iPhone 5 pre-orders in its first 2 days of availability. Unicom is fully subsidizing the phone to those who make a $947 deposit. 3) NTT DoCoMo (DCM) is facing more pressure to strike an iPhone deal (previous): the top Japanese carrier lost 40.8K subs in November to rivals SoftBank and KDDI. Apple's Japanese sales rose 113% Y/Y in FQ4.</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/707581?source=feed#comment-12370241</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">12370241</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[The crowds were sparse because you can't actually buy one, nimrod.  You have to reserve it on-line. If they actually sold them in the stores, the mullets would riot like they did the last time the did a launch without having reservations.]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:34:12 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The crowds were sparse because you can't actually buy one, nimrod.  You have to reserve it on-line. If they actually sold them in the stores, the mullets would riot like they did the last time the did a launch without having reservations.]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Apple's Ugly Wednesday - The Aftermath</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1048561/comments?source=feed#comment-12313581</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">12313581</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[1) I have yet to hear a professional investor suggest that market cap size and of itself has any impact on a stock's price.  the people that say this are pundits, hacks, MBA sons, fathers of MBA sons, retail investors who don't really impact Apple's price movements, and the like.  That Apple is so widely held and that it has appreciated so much in the last year has cause profit-taking, but i don't see professionals saying - oh look, Apple might reach 1T in market cap in a few hears—hurry, sell!!  2) Why would a split be bullish? 3) &quot;terrified&quot; is what some investors are—&quot;mortified&quot; is what you should be.]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:03:07 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[1) I have yet to hear a professional investor suggest that market cap size and of itself has any impact on a stock's price.  the people that say this are pundits, hacks, MBA sons, fathers of MBA sons, retail investors who don't really impact Apple's price movements, and the like.  That Apple is so widely held and that it has appreciated so much in the last year has cause profit-taking, but i don't see professionals saying - oh look, Apple might reach 1T in market cap in a few hears—hurry, sell!!  2) Why would a split be bullish? 3) &quot;terrified&quot; is what some investors are—&quot;mortified&quot; is what you should be.]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>On Investor Concerns, And Why Apple Should Trade Above $700</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1048471/comments?source=feed#comment-12311361</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">12311361</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[Well, if they have any sense at all, they were buying shares like mad when it crashed a few weeks ago, they will buy more under 550, and they will expand share buybacks while the price is depressed, reducing the shares outstanding and raising the multiple.  That's a start in the right direction.]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:17:11 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Well, if they have any sense at all, they were buying shares like mad when it crashed a few weeks ago, they will buy more under 550, and they will expand share buybacks while the price is depressed, reducing the shares outstanding and raising the multiple.  That's a start in the right direction.]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>On Investor Concerns, And Why Apple Should Trade Above $700</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1048471/comments?source=feed#comment-12309961</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">12309961</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[Based on your reasoning, in your opinion, what was the catalyst for the jump from 505 to 595 (a mere 0.8% from your mid-Jan target), a lift of some 18%, in just 9 days?  And based on your reply to that question, what is your reasoning for saying it couldn't repeat that move on the same catalyst?]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:25:19 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Based on your reasoning, in your opinion, what was the catalyst for the jump from 505 to 595 (a mere 0.8% from your mid-Jan target), a lift of some 18%, in just 9 days?  And based on your reply to that question, what is your reasoning for saying it couldn't repeat that move on the same catalyst?]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Real Reasons Why Apple Is Tanking</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1047291/comments?source=feed#comment-12309581</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">12309581</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[Nothing new here, just another hack practicing stringing words together....]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:18:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Nothing new here, just another hack practicing stringing words together....]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Apple's Worst Day In Nearly 4 Years</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1047461/comments?source=feed#comment-12305401</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">12305401</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[Amazing, all these comments on an article that says absolutely nothing.]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:44:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Amazing, all these comments on an article that says absolutely nothing.]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Apple's Margin Hike Sell-Off: Should You Care?</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1047121/comments?source=feed#comment-12305371</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">12305371</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[You, like most people on Seeking Alpha, don't have a clue how mobile works in China.  Before the iPhone came along, virtually no one in the private sector took up a long term agreement on a phone.  You buy a phone, then you go buy a SIM card from any mullet on the street, then you recharge the SIM card when it runs down. Alternatively, you buy a SiM and connect it to your bank account and they debit your account every time in nears 300RMB. The amount people pay for their phone in 90% of the cases has nothing to do with the service.  China Mobile has millions of millions of people using iPhones with no contract, including me.  Unlike the US, you can buy an iPhone at every little dumpy shop on the street. If the model has been introduced in China, it cost about 17% more than it does outside China due to VAT.  If it hasn't been officially introduced, it can cost 50% more.   People are willing to shell out six months salary to have one.  Its a status symbol, and they buy iPhones for the same reason they buy other ridiculously overpriced brand names.  Levi's are a high end brand here, and an ordinary pair can cost you the equivalent of a hundred dollars.  And they are made here.  You can buy a pair of Chinese jeans for five dollars if you don't mind wearing a brand called Qingfeng.  The dynamics of selling and the mindset of the Chinese is completely different.  90% of the people on this website that pontificate on China don't have a clue, and 50% of the remainder think because they went to Shanghai once they  &quot;know China&quot;.  The only people that understand China are the ones who have been here long enough to say , &quot;the longer I am here, the more I realize I don't understand it.&quot;]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:43:40 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[You, like most people on Seeking Alpha, don't have a clue how mobile works in China.  Before the iPhone came along, virtually no one in the private sector took up a long term agreement on a phone.  You buy a phone, then you go buy a SIM card from any mullet on the street, then you recharge the SIM card when it runs down. Alternatively, you buy a SiM and connect it to your bank account and they debit your account every time in nears 300RMB. The amount people pay for their phone in 90% of the cases has nothing to do with the service.  China Mobile has millions of millions of people using iPhones with no contract, including me.  Unlike the US, you can buy an iPhone at every little dumpy shop on the street. If the model has been introduced in China, it cost about 17% more than it does outside China due to VAT.  If it hasn't been officially introduced, it can cost 50% more.   People are willing to shell out six months salary to have one.  Its a status symbol, and they buy iPhones for the same reason they buy other ridiculously overpriced brand names.  Levi's are a high end brand here, and an ordinary pair can cost you the equivalent of a hundred dollars.  And they are made here.  You can buy a pair of Chinese jeans for five dollars if you don't mind wearing a brand called Qingfeng.  The dynamics of selling and the mindset of the Chinese is completely different.  90% of the people on this website that pontificate on China don't have a clue, and 50% of the remainder think because they went to Shanghai once they  &quot;know China&quot;.  The only people that understand China are the ones who have been here long enough to say , &quot;the longer I am here, the more I realize I don't understand it.&quot;]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Margin Pressures Likely To Hurt Apple Over Time</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1046731/comments?source=feed#comment-12305361</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">12305361</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[Ecosystem, not echo system]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:43:37 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Ecosystem, not echo system]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Apple: Do You Get Harmony If Everyone Sings The Same Tune?</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1017741/comments?source=feed#comment-11768971</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">11768971</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[Excellent article.<br/>But &quot;behooves&quot; is the wrong word.   &quot;Bewilders&quot; or &quot;mystifies&quot; is what you are groping for.  Behoove (a silly word for the pompous, in my opinion) means &quot;befits&quot;]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:26:53 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Excellent article.<br/>But &quot;behooves&quot; is the wrong word.   &quot;Bewilders&quot; or &quot;mystifies&quot; is what you are groping for.  Behoove (a silly word for the pompous, in my opinion) means &quot;befits&quot;]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Apple Vs. Research In Motion: The Winner Is ...</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1015651/comments?source=feed#comment-11736921</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">11736921</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[lack of conviction:   ■  the quality of failing to show that one is firmly convinced of what one believes or says<br/><br/>Example:<br/>Apple is a buy from these levels. However, I think it will muddle around these levels for a while. . . .. I think the correct play at the time will be. . . .buy Apple for the short term.  Of course we do not know. . .if Apple bounces from these levels. That's why short term (active) investors need to follow the market's logic and keep a close eye on the tape, for nothing ever happens as you plan on it. But it never hurts to plan ahead anyway.]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:45:24 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[lack of conviction:   ■  the quality of failing to show that one is firmly convinced of what one believes or says<br/><br/>Example:<br/>Apple is a buy from these levels. However, I think it will muddle around these levels for a while. . . .. I think the correct play at the time will be. . . .buy Apple for the short term.  Of course we do not know. . .if Apple bounces from these levels. That's why short term (active) investors need to follow the market's logic and keep a close eye on the tape, for nothing ever happens as you plan on it. But it never hurts to plan ahead anyway.]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Buy Apple On Sell-Off</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1014421/comments?source=feed#comment-11712961</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">11712961</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[Point 1:   They don't officially sell the iPad Mini in China, or the latest iPad, or the iPhone 5 for that matter.  Any that are sold are smuggled in - so there would be no sales information on them unless someone is searching the bags of the housewives who pack them into their bags when they cross the border dor $5 each.  And for some anecdotal evidence, I live in one of the largest cities in China, and have seen exactly one iPad Mini in the &quot;wild&quot; and it was in the hands of a foreign businesswoman.  That said, I agree they will be popular, more so than the iPad, actually.<br/>Point 2:  The Mini was not available &quot;last quarter&quot; in China - or anywhere else.  It rolled out in the current quarter.<br/>Point 3:  anyone who suggest they have any insight into when or if China Mobile will open up to Apple should be considered a flake, and that includes analysts]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 06:02:10 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Point 1:   They don't officially sell the iPad Mini in China, or the latest iPad, or the iPhone 5 for that matter.  Any that are sold are smuggled in - so there would be no sales information on them unless someone is searching the bags of the housewives who pack them into their bags when they cross the border dor $5 each.  And for some anecdotal evidence, I live in one of the largest cities in China, and have seen exactly one iPad Mini in the &quot;wild&quot; and it was in the hands of a foreign businesswoman.  That said, I agree they will be popular, more so than the iPad, actually.<br/>Point 2:  The Mini was not available &quot;last quarter&quot; in China - or anywhere else.  It rolled out in the current quarter.<br/>Point 3:  anyone who suggest they have any insight into when or if China Mobile will open up to Apple should be considered a flake, and that includes analysts]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Apple's Moment Of Truth And Way Forward</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1010021/comments?source=feed#comment-11629691</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">11629691</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[This seems to me to be more philosophical navel gazing and pontificating than an effort to bring forth something substantive. You suggest a way forward, then point out why it doesn't make sense......]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:07:19 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[This seems to me to be more philosophical navel gazing and pontificating than an effort to bring forth something substantive. You suggest a way forward, then point out why it doesn't make sense......]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Why Apple Is Still A 'Don't Buy'</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/956051/comments?source=feed#comment-10958441</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">10958441</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[Nonsense.  China Mobile is the largest carrier in virtually every market it serves, including Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 cities, which together have a totalpopulation larger than the United States,mans which excludes the rural areas which have a population almost double the United States.]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:22:58 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Nonsense.  China Mobile is the largest carrier in virtually every market it serves, including Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 cities, which together have a totalpopulation larger than the United States,mans which excludes the rural areas which have a population almost double the United States.]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Apple's iPad Mini: It Isn't The Size That Counts, It's How You Use It</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/953361/comments?source=feed#comment-10923201</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">10923201</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[You lost me at &quot;Android&quot;.....which one of the two dozen official Fatty dessert versions will they run, or will it be one of the five bazillion fragments of Android that are rarely updated, meaning the operating system will be obsolete out of the box so that the only way you can &quot;try&quot; keep ahead of the curve is to by a new device every three months—a new device which will also have an obsolete operating system....ad infinitum.......buying some no name Android-based whatever is like buying a Taurus with a Edsel transmission......]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:41:15 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[You lost me at &quot;Android&quot;.....which one of the two dozen official Fatty dessert versions will they run, or will it be one of the five bazillion fragments of Android that are rarely updated, meaning the operating system will be obsolete out of the box so that the only way you can &quot;try&quot; keep ahead of the curve is to by a new device every three months—a new device which will also have an obsolete operating system....ad infinitum.......buying some no name Android-based whatever is like buying a Taurus with a Edsel transmission......]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Why Apple Will Miss Earnings And Trade Below $600</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/946271/comments?source=feed#comment-10876391</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">10876391</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[If you actually &quot;read&quot; the article, you would see his price targets of 518 for 2012 and 579 for 2013 (pre-earnings, AH today trading at 615-ish).]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:30:34 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[If you actually &quot;read&quot; the article, you would see his price targets of 518 for 2012 and 579 for 2013 (pre-earnings, AH today trading at 615-ish).]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Why The iPad Mini Will Benefit Apple's Gross Margins</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/936271/comments?source=feed#comment-10721401</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">10721401</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[The same people that buy an iPod today and fit it neatly into their pocket....reckon?]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:09:04 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The same people that buy an iPod today and fit it neatly into their pocket....reckon?]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Apple: Time To Reduce An Overweight Position</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/912851/comments?source=feed#comment-10359881</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">10359881</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[It seems to me that anyone that has ever owned an Apple product—or has ever seen one—feels qualified to provide a commentary that adds no value and provides no insight.  It degrades Seeking Alpha that there is little or no filtering out of useless click-bait.   How about it, SA, let's weed out some of the garbage articles and lift the quality of the reading here..... ]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:51:03 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[It seems to me that anyone that has ever owned an Apple product—or has ever seen one—feels qualified to provide a commentary that adds no value and provides no insight.  It degrades Seeking Alpha that there is little or no filtering out of useless click-bait.   How about it, SA, let's weed out some of the garbage articles and lift the quality of the reading here..... ]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Why Apple Will Dominate China</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/516541/comments?source=feed#comment-4667991</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">4667991</guid>
      <content>
        <![CDATA[I have been living in China for sixteen years, and not much surprises me, but in the last several years, I have been overwhelmed by the frenzy over the Apple brand by middle class youth whose parents are willing to fork out a premium for what is essentially a luxury brand, as well as an upwardly mobile group of young professionals who are willing to spend one to two months of salary on these products.  Granted, there are far more buying non-Apple, but the influx into the middle class is so enormous and rapid that the market for Apple in China has barely been breached.  I am sitting in a Starbucks at this very moment, and of the forty people here, well over half of them are conspicuously displaying an electronic device with an Apple logo (and freeloading off the free Internet without buying anything from Starbucks - good for Apple, bad for Starbucks)]]>
      </content>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:35:35 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[I have been living in China for sixteen years, and not much surprises me, but in the last several years, I have been overwhelmed by the frenzy over the Apple brand by middle class youth whose parents are willing to fork out a premium for what is essentially a luxury brand, as well as an upwardly mobile group of young professionals who are willing to spend one to two months of salary on these products.  Granted, there are far more buying non-Apple, but the influx into the middle class is so enormous and rapid that the market for Apple in China has barely been breached.  I am sitting in a Starbucks at this very moment, and of the forty people here, well over half of them are conspicuously displaying an electronic device with an Apple logo (and freeloading off the free Internet without buying anything from Starbucks - good for Apple, bad for Starbucks)]]>
      </description>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>
