Bill Donahue on This week's Apple trading strategies (3/16-3/20/26) - 'Yup. Fuel costs for everyone moving everything have just jacked upward significantly. Paul Krugman thinks $150/bbl or more is in the cards. Apparently fertilizer shipments have been sufficiently disrupted that southern hemisphere countries like Brazil, with big agriculture sectors, may seem this year’s crop output drop significantly, just because of the specific timing of this mind-bogglingly dumb and needless war. I’m betting we’ll be hearing about spiking petrochemical prices shortly, and then who knows what else. Tack this onto the effects of his tariffs on global trade, inflation, and corporate financial uncertainty, and it’s like he’s laser-focused on trying to prove that James Carville’s “It’s the economy, Stupid!” is wrong.'
on This week's Apple trading strategies (3/16-3/20/26) - 'Wow, same as Ben’s response to your story. I hope you still have the Mac Plus. I became a shareholder for similar reasons 25 years ago. At the time everyone said Apple was going out of business but I thought there was something the market didn’t understand about Apple’s ethos and that at some point they’d catch on. And they did. The thing that I most admire is Apple’s spirit/culture/ethos. This allows them to make great things, which in turn has driven the stock.'
on This week's Apple trading strategies (3/16-3/20/26) - 'I am extremely apprehensive about how the violence in the Middle East will affect the world economy and all stocks. I just saw an estimate that oil production is down ~18M bbls a day. The flow rate from the national reserve tops out at ~2M bbls a day. Plus the strait of Hormuz is a route for all sort of fertilizer and other industrial chemicals. This is a huge mess. I suspect we’ll see all sorts of economic disruptions around the world. The next few days might give us a clue about how the markets will react. Regardless of Apple product announcements we are likely to see a shock to the markets.'
on Mark Gurman: Apple's table top robot now coming in September - 'I found his channel last week. Good stuff!'
on This week's Apple trading strategies (3/16-3/20/26) - 'Something we discovered during the purchasing process is just how many international physical keyboard formats Apple provides. It’s some huge number like 30 (I did not actually count!). They are a blast to look at to see how each language or country has nuances tailored to them. We even printed out the Korean keyboard for our daughter to use as an encoder ring to write in English with the corresponding Korean glyphs. While we’re pretty sure the Korean writing system does not quite work like that, it was fun nonetheless. Great job by Apple on that.'
on Seventh annual Apple 3.0 price target contest - 'PED, Put me down for $297.50 on April 1, 2027 Thank you Brian'
on Mark Gurman: Apple's table top robot now coming in September - 'You can watch his videos on YouTube. You should find a ‘Subscribe’ button there.'
on This week's Apple trading strategies (3/16-3/20/26) - 'My relationship with Apple began 40 years ago this year when I literally inherited my first Mac. The Mac Plus I inherited I used to compose a eulogy for my father who owned it before me. After composing the eulogy on the Mac and hearing it read aloud at his funeral, my mother asked me if I wanted to take it back to Washington, DC with me. That first real encounter with an Apple product was a life-transforming experience. I became an Apple shareholder because I believed a company that could make products like that Mac Plus was likely to be a great success. I didn’t become an Apple product advocate because I liked the stock. I became an Apple product advocate because I loved the company’s products and the manner in which celebration of the human spirit and human creativity is designed into each device. Apple’s greatest success, in my view, is the way the company’s products and services continue to transform lives. The company’s revenue of greater than $1 billion per day and its net income of greater than $2 billion per week is an outcome of the company’s desire to serve humanity through superior and thoughtful product design. The greatest testament to the company’s success is not the number of devices used around the world. Rather, it’s the number of people around the world that choose Apple products because of the company’s superior and thoughtful product design. The number of people, like me, that have had life transforming experiences through the use of Apple products is something to celebrate and something to never try and count.'
on Mark Gurman: Apple's table top robot now coming in September - 'Oops! Not apparently someone you can subscribe to. Part of a large group. I’ll have to rely on Hap to forward more! 🙂'
on Seventh annual Apple 3.0 price target contest - 'Ugh, I don’t like the new rule that allows multiple people to pick the same number. AAPL’s at 250, so I’ll pick $329. I’m pessimistic not about Apple, but about the world economy.'
on Seventh annual Apple 3.0 price target contest - '$315 Can’t believe I was the lowest guess on last years list. Ye of little faith.'
