George Kiersted on iPhone Duo for $5K - 'Would such a markup be worth it to a content creator/influencer, I wonder?'
on Saturday Apple video: Here's to the crazy ones — 3 times - 'You’d have a hard time not including him, despite his politics.'
on Apple's iPhone Duo sold out - 'The Apple Store in my mall suffered water damage (alongside the Vuori next door). Guess I won’t be checking out the Duo anytime soon.'
on Apple at $343.46: Third record close this week - 'If those peaks are early session buybacks, Apple is losing money! I thought buy high, sell low was MY strategy. 🙂'
on Apple's iPhone Duo sold out - 'I duly “”Prepared to Preorder” on Monday 10/12. I got my confirmation that my Pre-Order was accepted. I went online at 7AM local (CST, 5 PM PST) today as instructed. The Apple website was a little wonky and I was unfortunately forced to reset my icloud, etc., password and suffer through illegible captcha’s, but ultimately got my password updated. Then I went back to my Pre-Order confirmation and had to log in and out once or twice to eventually place my *actual* order. At the end, I could obviously not “Pick Up In Store”, because there is no in-store inventory yet, so I shipped my unit to the Apple Store Knox Street with my name on it. There in no way in hell I am shipping a $2400 box to my front door when I don’t know exactly when it will arrive. I will ask for forgiveness at the Apple Store in the coming days. Apple should obviously have a “shipment” option that is to deliver it to the Store for pick up. That seems like a totally Un-Apple no-brainer. Bottom Line: it delivers Monday, January 25 by Express Delivery. Ha! That is only a few days after my birthday, so Happy Birthday to me!'
on Apple at $343.46: Third record close this week - 'That’s quite a chart – the price is up nicely in a spike just about every morning, then declines as the day goes on. Profit taking I presume. And yes Michael, pretty impressive considering the rest of the market!'
on iPhone Duo for $5K - 'Clearly Apple throttled supplies to create an artificial shortage for a device no one wants in the first place… Apple is doomed, as always.'
on Apple at $343.46: Third record close this week - 'Even more impressive with the fact Nasdaq was down nearly 573 points. With all of the prior hysteria about Apple being behind in AI while everyone else was spending bazillions on Capex, it brings to mind a chant heard long ago from the fans in Yankees stadium: “Who’s your daddy?”'
on Apple's iPhone Duo sold out - '“…believed that Apple has fewer of the iPhone Duo manufactured than normal.” Normal for when it introduces a foldable for the first time? Of course there are fewer than for the regular models! That’s not a “normal” to normal comparison for the launch of this product.'
on Premarket: Apple is green - 'Yes. Another all-time closing high of $343.46, up $1.46 or 0.43% on the day and yet another day this week in which Apple’s share price moved lower in afternoon trading. The high on the day was $347.82. Apple ends the day and the week with a market cap of $5.013 trillion, according to Yahoo! Finance.'
on Premarket: Apple is green - 'Well, at close AAPL managed to close green at $343.46, up $1.46 to close at another incremental ATCH, 4th this week. Volume was above average 52.5M shares. The rest of tech closed in the red today.'
on Premarket: Apple is green - 'Looks like a rout in the markets today. Apple is down a fraction of a percent with an hour left in trading. Not sure what is driving this. CoreWeave is down about 13% and Oracle is down about 5%. If Oracle’s bond rating drops just one level they become junk bonds with lots of consequences. Inflation is high. Saudi Arabia is in danger of being overrun. Pick your poison.'
on Apple antitrust: Epic Games and PayPal lobby DOJ for tougher terms - '“ designed to work better with each other than with other products.” I agree. I have a very difficult time trying to understand epic’s point of view. The only issue I could see where they might have a point would be if Apple is actually going out of their way to interfere with their products working with Apple products. I would not think that that would be the case, only that Apple is able to produce products that can interact with each other easier.'
on OpenAI promises not to use Apple trade secrets — for now - '“As an Apple investor, I vote that Apple roll their own…” Of course, if the deal with Meta hasn’t yet been finalized, that may be exactly what Apple ultimately decides….'
on OpenAI promises not to use Apple trade secrets — for now - 'There’s a good in-depth interview with Steve Eisman, one of the people described in “The Big Short” who saw early on that the whole mortgage-backed securities investment landscape was a bubble ready to pop, on New Money’s Youtube channel, in which he discusses what he sees an impending AI bubble burst. It went up on October 2nd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw0I7kb6zg4'
on Apple's iPhone Duo sold out - 'I suspect the Duo’s camera was hobbled to prevent people like me from buying one and cannibalizing the Pro Max. I seriously considered the Duo, but I’ve learned over the years to stifle my emotional response to an Apple product (“I just want to hold it!”). I looked at my usages of my iPhone and found that I use the camera a lot. Like a lot. Having access to wide-angle and telephoto is a big part of that. For that reason, I got the 18 Pro Max, which I just received and will be playing with. It will be interesting to see what level of canibalization does take place.'
