Apple's Still A Better Value Than Google [View article]
Obviously you believe everything you read & don't bother about checking the full story behind it. Even Samsung denied this 20% increase. You can wait the $350th until the next mega recession.
Google has returned 8% YOY. Apple has returned 28% YOY after losing 26% in the last 3 month.
After closing on Friday near 10-month lows, Apple (AAPL +3.1%) is rallying in the absence of major news. Likely helping: a weekend Barron's column that made a bull case for the stock while suggesting much of the "fast money" that had joined the bandwagon is now gone. Also, year-end sales made for tax purposes might now be letting up. [View news story]
Clever investor's decision. You enjoyed a good profit at lower tax rate & banked in the difference while establishing a higher tax base.
I did the same partially although i am not US citizen. I also sold some other stock to buy more Apple at 510.
Unfortunately, the money gained by the big boys is out of panic sellers pocket. This was the CNBC commentator's bosses goal.
After closing on Friday near 10-month lows, Apple (AAPL +3.1%) is rallying in the absence of major news. Likely helping: a weekend Barron's column that made a bull case for the stock while suggesting much of the "fast money" that had joined the bandwagon is now gone. Also, year-end sales made for tax purposes might now be letting up. [View news story]
The CNBC commentator is saying just what he is told to say. The Google biz plan may also become less viable if they dont find new ways fattening fingers & bringing people to click on adds. Besides, it is a biz plan based on spying people's behavior which could be stopped by authorities. Apple is innovating every day. Being incremental, evolutionary or revolutionary. Apple's management knows it better than u & me. Apple has done this always & certainly since SJ returned to Apple. Apple's computer line is making money since 1994 only with incremental innovation. Apple's IPOD was a revolutionary product back in 2003 but it is still making money only with incremental innovations. The Iphone was another revolutionary product brought in 2007 & since then selling more & more thanks to some evolutionary or +/- revolutionary innovations. The Ipad came in 2010 & since then has had some +/- revolutionary or evolutionary (depends on one's expectations) innovations. Sales are increasingly increasing. The Ipad mini, although not a new product, is the last born & is selling better than the full size item. Is it a revolutionary product or just an entry price product brought in to compete with Nexus7 or Kindle fire. What-ever, as long as it sells over the expectations.
Where do you see a sign of lack of innovation in Apple's products.
In which co's products do you see all those innovations that you do not see in Apple's.
Who else than Apple has brought a new revolutionary product to the market. They are all waiting the Apple's next product to copy it some times later.
Samsung & some others have already brought the Smart TV to the market. Nobody buys those stuff even at high discount. They are all waiting Apple's. Now, buyers know that Apple will launch an Smart TV only if the full meaning of Smart can be applied to the function of TV. Otherwise Apple will not launch a TV.
The CNBC commentator is just doing what he is told to do for just one purpose : To bring people like you to do what-ever they want you to do. The CNBC commentator is not advising you to do anything logic. He is just trying to push you in the direction his bosses have indicated him.
Apple: What You Should Know About Weak Link In Tech Titan's Chain [View article]
All other competitors are trying to catch Apple in all its sectors. Some have come with few +/- innovative futures but the overall products are still +/- pale copies of Apple's. R&D expenditures of Microsoft & Nokia were necessary for their survival & still their products don't sell as good as Apple's. Samsung's product line is much wider than Apple's & need more R&d expenditure. Google's R&D expenditure cannot be 100% compared to Apple's. The core business is different.
As to Android, the spectrum of products using it is very wide. A huge percentage of smart phones using Android are owned by people just using it as phone, not as smart phone.
IPhone is competing only with the higher quality of Android smart phones & there, Iphone sales is much higher than all others added together such as GSIII + Nokia Lumia + Blackberry + you name it. It is some times good to compare comparables.
Apple (AAPL) is at risk of losing one of its key competitive advantages over Google’s rival Android system as application developers say they are becoming more constructive with Google's (GOOG) Android smartphone platform. GOOG's app store has long lagged AAPL's iPhone, however the sheer scale of Android, which now accounts for three out of every four smartphones sold, is commanding developers’ attention, despite their continuing difficulties in monetizing the platform. [View news story]
If Apple Isn't Investing In Apple, Should You? [View article]
Nobody saw IPhone or IPad coming. The next Idevice is not foreseen either. In the meantime, Apple sells any single product it produces. Is there any other co doing so. By they way, some one can tell me who else brought a completely revolutionary product into the market except Apple?
You are just one of very few compared to all others disapproving him on this special point. His assumptions are just none sense because he thinks that he knows better than the Apple's management how they have to manage.
I have IP4s & my wife has an Android. She is using my phone all the time except when she calls. I never touch her Android phone. She wants me to upgrade to IP5 so that she can have the 4s. 80% of our friends owning Smart phones have IP & those having Androids want to change.
Working with Apple doesn't mean that part of the discount will be eaten by Apple. Ensuring to have a reasonable quantity allocated to them for their promotion is, in itself, a very nice participation of Apple in WM promotion. You write "So the implied is that the discount were shared "IS JUST YOUR ASSUMPTION.
WM is trying to lure people in their stores even at the cost of some loss on some of very attractive products. WM know that Android stuff will not drain people in.
I doubt that Apple's brilliant management would get into a discount deal with WM. They know better than you & me that they cannot treat their supply chain differently. The reason the you are not a member of that management is that you think they are foolish.
Any product has its evolutionary cycle. Apple cannot stop improving because people like you might just find it only evolutionary. you reason as if Apple shall not improve a product unless it is revolutionary ! seems none sense.
Apple makes products that people like. People seemed to like smaller tablet. Apple made THE SMALLER TABLET that people like. What is wrong with this ? After all, MP3 existed before IPod or Smartphones existed before IPhone. But Apple brought to the market THE PRODUCT that people wanted. Q3 12 was missed by analysts not by Apple. Analysts had such a high expectation for Q3 12 because of the huge Q1 & 2 results. Apple's guidance for Q3 12 was lower than its actual result. Q4 12 was a small & insignificant miss ($0,08/S) vs analyst targets but higher than Apple's guidance again. Q1 13 may also be a miss vs analyst guidance but will be higher than Apple's guidance again. This proves only one thing: analysts are wrong not apple.
More on Apple: Shares could be pressured by a downgrade to Neutral from Citi. The firm says checks indicate Apple has cut its March quarter iPhone 5 orders following a 45%-50% increase in monthly output from October to December. UBS recently said checks suggested the iPhone 5's build rate would fall sharply in the March quarter, while Jefferies claimed iPhone component suppliers saw big order cuts last week. Citi, which started Apple at Buy on Nov. 26, also thinks Samsung is doing very well. Update: Morgan Stanley responds by pointing to encouraging U.S. iPhone/iPad survey data. But a gap has opened up between U.S. and foreign iPhone share trends. [View news story]
Where the Fibonacci series is fitting in this. Fibonacci is just a arithmetic series where a=b+c with a = actual, b & c = the 2 previous numbers. Applying a mathematic or arithmetic formula to some thing must have any reasoning behind it. Dan Brown used it for some guessing purposes. Now why do u think it has a sense ? Woodoo prediction ?
Apple's Still A Better Value Than Google [View article]
Apple yoy SP +28% after a sharp 26% fall.
Even Mr market is saying Apple > Google
Apple's Still A Better Value Than Google [View article]
You can wait the $350th until the next mega recession.
Google has returned 8% YOY.
Apple has returned 28% YOY after losing 26% in the last 3 month.
It says by itself.
Apple's Still A Better Value Than Google [View article]
After closing on Friday near 10-month lows, Apple (AAPL +3.1%) is rallying in the absence of major news. Likely helping: a weekend Barron's column that made a bull case for the stock while suggesting much of the "fast money" that had joined the bandwagon is now gone. Also, year-end sales made for tax purposes might now be letting up. [View news story]
I did the same partially although i am not US citizen.
I also sold some other stock to buy more Apple at 510.
Unfortunately, the money gained by the big boys is out of panic sellers pocket. This was the CNBC commentator's bosses goal.
After closing on Friday near 10-month lows, Apple (AAPL +3.1%) is rallying in the absence of major news. Likely helping: a weekend Barron's column that made a bull case for the stock while suggesting much of the "fast money" that had joined the bandwagon is now gone. Also, year-end sales made for tax purposes might now be letting up. [View news story]
Apple is innovating every day. Being incremental, evolutionary or revolutionary. Apple's management knows it better than u & me. Apple has done this always & certainly since SJ returned to Apple.
Apple's computer line is making money since 1994 only with incremental innovation.
Apple's IPOD was a revolutionary product back in 2003 but it is still making money only with incremental innovations.
The Iphone was another revolutionary product brought in 2007 & since then selling more & more thanks to some evolutionary or +/- revolutionary innovations.
The Ipad came in 2010 & since then has had some +/- revolutionary or evolutionary (depends on one's expectations) innovations. Sales are increasingly increasing.
The Ipad mini, although not a new product, is the last born & is selling better than the full size item. Is it a revolutionary product or just an entry price product brought in to compete with Nexus7 or Kindle fire. What-ever, as long as it sells over the expectations.
Where do you see a sign of lack of innovation in Apple's products.
In which co's products do you see all those innovations that you do not see in Apple's.
Who else than Apple has brought a new revolutionary product to the market. They are all waiting the Apple's next product to copy it some times later.
Samsung & some others have already brought the Smart TV to the market. Nobody buys those stuff even at high discount. They are all waiting Apple's. Now, buyers know that Apple will launch an Smart TV only if the full meaning of Smart can be applied to the function of TV. Otherwise Apple will not launch a TV.
The CNBC commentator is just doing what he is told to do for just one purpose : To bring people like you to do what-ever they want you to do. The CNBC commentator is not advising you to do anything logic. He is just trying to push you in the direction his bosses have indicated him.
Apple: What You Should Know About Weak Link In Tech Titan's Chain [View article]
R&D expenditures of Microsoft & Nokia were necessary for their survival & still their products don't sell as good as Apple's.
Samsung's product line is much wider than Apple's & need more R&d expenditure.
Google's R&D expenditure cannot be 100% compared to Apple's. The core business is different.
As to Android, the spectrum of products using it is very wide. A huge percentage of smart phones using Android are owned by people just using it as phone, not as smart phone.
IPhone is competing only with the higher quality of Android smart phones & there, Iphone sales is much higher than all others added together such as GSIII + Nokia Lumia + Blackberry + you name it.
It is some times good to compare comparables.
Apple (AAPL) is at risk of losing one of its key competitive advantages over Google’s rival Android system as application developers say they are becoming more constructive with Google's (GOOG) Android smartphone platform. GOOG's app store has long lagged AAPL's iPhone, however the sheer scale of Android, which now accounts for three out of every four smartphones sold, is commanding developers’ attention, despite their continuing difficulties in monetizing the platform. [View news story]
If Apple Isn't Investing In Apple, Should You? [View article]
By they way, some one can tell me who else brought a completely revolutionary product into the market except Apple?
What's Worrisome About Apple [View article]
What's Worrisome About Apple [View article]
80% of our friends owning Smart phones have IP & those having Androids want to change.
What's Worrisome About Apple [View article]
You write "So the implied is that the discount were shared "IS JUST YOUR ASSUMPTION.
WM is trying to lure people in their stores even at the cost of some loss on some of very attractive products. WM know that Android stuff will not drain people in.
I doubt that Apple's brilliant management would get into a discount deal with WM. They know better than you & me that they cannot treat their supply chain differently. The reason the you are not a member of that management is that you think they are foolish.
What's Worrisome About Apple [View article]
Consider Selling Apple Stock [View article]
After all, MP3 existed before IPod or Smartphones existed before IPhone. But Apple brought to the market THE PRODUCT that people wanted.
Q3 12 was missed by analysts not by Apple. Analysts had such a high expectation for Q3 12 because of the huge Q1 & 2 results. Apple's guidance for Q3 12 was lower than its actual result.
Q4 12 was a small & insignificant miss ($0,08/S) vs analyst targets but higher than Apple's guidance again.
Q1 13 may also be a miss vs analyst guidance but will be higher than Apple's guidance again.
This proves only one thing: analysts are wrong not apple.
Brian White tries to ride to the rescue of Apple (AAPL), reiterating his $1,111 price target after the company reported selling more than 2M iPhone 5s in its first 3 days of official availability in China. Also leaning against the Citi downgrade are Morgan Stanley and Barclays. Shares are bouncing from premarket lows, -1.4% to $502.49. [View news story]
More on Apple: Shares could be pressured by a downgrade to Neutral from Citi. The firm says checks indicate Apple has cut its March quarter iPhone 5 orders following a 45%-50% increase in monthly output from October to December. UBS recently said checks suggested the iPhone 5's build rate would fall sharply in the March quarter, while Jefferies claimed iPhone component suppliers saw big order cuts last week. Citi, which started Apple at Buy on Nov. 26, also thinks Samsung is doing very well. Update: Morgan Stanley responds by pointing to encouraging U.S. iPhone/iPad survey data. But a gap has opened up between U.S. and foreign iPhone share trends. [View news story]