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  • Robert Paul Leitao on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Michael: There is no slingshot and there’s no beachball. Apple is, however, playing hardball with its latest product releases.'
  • Robert Paul Leitao on Craig Moffett's Apple rating has gone from Sell to Neutral with a $234 target - '@PED “Huge spike in memory costs” was at the top of one of the slides about the firm’s position on Apple. In my view, this was an uninformative interview with an analyst who is choosing not to see the demand for the iPhone 17 series handsets as promising for the company’s CY2026 results and likely continued strong demand through at least the next iPhone model year. Also, I do expect Apple to benefit from AI-related services through strong demand for the company’s products and monetization of AI through the sales of AI-related services. This analyst won’t count what he won’t see and he won’t see anything that differs from his public narrative on the company.'
  • Robert Paul Leitao on Craig Moffett's Apple rating has gone from Sell to Neutral with a $234 target - '@PED “Huge spike in memory costs” was at the top of one of the slides about the firm’s position on Apple. In my view, this was a an uninformative interview with an analyst who is choosing not to see the demand for the iPhone 17 series handsets as promising for the company’s CY2026 results and likely continued strong demand through at least the next iPhone model year. Also, I do expect Apple to benefit from AI-related services through strong demand for the company’s products and monetization via of AI through the sales of AI-related services.'
  • David Emery on Craig Moffett's Apple rating has gone from Sell to Neutral with a $234 target - 'Yet putting Moffett on the air brings in the clicks…. (CNBC wouldn’t bother, otherwise…)'
  • David Drinkwater on Apple lets Sony get Peanuts - 'Good grief!'
  • Ron Fredrick on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Ron Fredrick said:”Now granted, my money was a lot scarer in those days but my desire to gamble is the same as it was then.” **Um…”scarer”? I meant to type “scarcer”, of course. As in “not enough of something”, not “One who scares”. 🙂'
  • Michael Goldfeder on Premarket: Apple is red - '@Joseph: “Wow! What an ending! Did the slingshot just get released?” With a beach ball launched.'
  • Michael Goldfeder on Craig Moffett's Apple rating has gone from Sell to Neutral with a $234 target - 'I really like Jon Fortt. He was asking straight forward direct and simple questions in this interview with Craig Moffett who gave answers that would make a politician look like they’re forthcoming and an open book. Moffett cannot even admit that he is wrong about Apple not doing well selling iPhone 17. Services. Or anything else Apple related. Does anyone in the investing world trust this outfit for investing advice? I’d call him a Dope but that just demeans the word. He truly is in a class all by himself. The numeric 4th class implies he has some. Which he truly does not. I wouldn’t trust him to watch an undrilled bowling ball. Let alone manage a stock portfolio. Congrats to Jon for exposing this donkey as the charlatan he truly is.'
  • Robert Paul Leitao on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Ron: I appreciate your comment. I strive to be 100% invested in equities 100% of the time. For all Apple shareholders I’m hoping 2026 will be.a strong year for gains. For the fiscal year that ended in September of this year the company returned to revenue and net income growth and I expect both revenue and net income growth for a second consecutive year in the fiscal year that ends next September. Morgan Stanley and other major investment firms are forecasting double-digit gains for the S&P 500 again in 2026. Like you I don’t suggest anyone treat the market like it is a casino or a place to gamble with one’s resources. I’m putting together a list of my favorite equities for 2026 and it’s no surprise the list will include Apple.'
  • Gregg Thurman on Counterpoint: Five global product markets Apple dominates by revenue share - ' Gregg, I know you know all this…. It doesn’t hurt to be reminded.'
  • David Emery on Counterpoint: Five global product markets Apple dominates by revenue share - 'I’ve been really surprised (and I’m a pessimist by nature) by how little actual innovation we’ve seen in the Android world. Folding phones for hardware, but what for software?? The Samsung “Ft Knox” didn’t go anywhere. In part this is likely a combination of Google locking down Android and in part for handset vendors fearing too much difference from all other Android phones would discourage people from switching to their phones.'
  • Fred Stein on Counterpoint: Five global product markets Apple dominates by revenue share - 'Upvoted. Worse, when cloners do innovate*, the nature of the clone market forces them to push products out early. Later, Apple, who patiently waits the conditions are right, knocks it out of the park. Two examples of Androids premature ejaculations: 5G long before the service was widely available; Foldables, years before the technology could meet even minimal durability or water/dust proof standard well established for Smart Phones. *Most of what journalist and analysts call innovations have been in the works by many people and orgs for years. By contrast the iPod and the iPhone, transformative innovations, disrupted the incumbents, creating new winners (and losers). Gregg, I know you know all this….'
  • Alessandro Luethi on Saturday Apple video: Steve Jobs' NeXT has birthing pains - 'You have discovered a gem, Philip! I can only hope that Craig Federighi is holding retreats like this, planting the seeds of a new corporate culture, to re-create a company that is built from the heart. I can only hope that Apple has somebody who is the keeper and reiterator of the vision.'
  • Hap Allen on Saturday Apple video: Steve Jobs' NeXT has birthing pains - '“Inverse pyramid.” Fantastic.'
  • Gregg Thurman on Counterpoint: Five global product markets Apple dominates by revenue share - 'It must be frustrating as hell to be an iPhone copier. You manufacture a handset with nearly identical physical characteristics, operations and features, by far sell more units than Apple, but earn next to nothing in profits. In fact, the consumer’s perceived value of the iPhone is such that 1 or 2 year old models sell for more than your newest on the secondary market. You fear taking the time to look over your shoulder, because another copier may be catching up. Nobody creates or reads rumors about your products because the market doesn’t care. Negative rumors about Apple products have little to no impact on its sales (and may even cause them to increase). Then you struggle to keep your best customers, the ones that buy the most expensive models, from switching to a used iPhone, or even a new one. Yep, it must be frustrating to be a copier, to go to all that trouble to manufacture all those copies, and not get rewarded with massive profits. In fact your OS supplier, that one that doesn’t charge for its product, makes more than you do from your customers.'
  • David Emery on Counterpoint: Five global product markets Apple dominates by revenue share - 'They were useful for tossing to the ground in frustration 🙂 🙂 (But then, I never had much use for Belichick, or as he’s known elsewhere, “Belicheat”.)'
  • Stephen Gordon on Counterpoint: Five global product markets Apple dominates by revenue share - 'And we know how much coaches loved using the Microsoft tablet… youtu.be/wyhjUFcXgo0?si=CHDnPejni0wOd0Sh'
  • Fred Stein on Counterpoint: Five global product markets Apple dominates by revenue share - 'Next month the Mac’s turns 41, and it’s still growing / going strong. So what? The iPhone has similar long-term potential. No, Jony and Ive and OpenAI don’t have an iPhone killer. And the Mac may take a good share of the AI platform business.'
  • David Emery on Counterpoint: Five global product markets Apple dominates by revenue share - 'The interesting thing about the iPad is how much it seems to own ‘offices’. I’m trying to remember the last time I was handed something other than an iPad in an office to fill out forms, etc, or saw someone in the office carrying something other than an iPad. (The one exception, of course, is NFL sidelines, where Microsoft had to PAY THEM to use the MS devices….)'
  • Greg Lippert on How to build a powerful LLM machine by Thunderbolting four Apple Mac Studios together - 'So is it safe to say if Apple wanted to get in the same game as Nvidia it could add the AI server chip to its business, making it that much instantly bigger?'
  • Rodney Avilla on Apple's $20.4 billion in September quarter buybacks take the prize - 'It will be a long time (probably after I’m gone) before Apple can become a good value stock (too many outstanding share), but I do appreciate the increase in revenue and earnings/share for the shares I have. Now if we can just convince wallstreet that Apple deserves a P/E of 40+.'
  • Bill Donahue on Quarter after quarter, half of the top 10 global smartphone sold are Apple iPhones - 'The iPhone 17 is #10 in smartphone sales in Q3 2025, despite that pre-orders started on September 12th, it went on sale on September 19th, and Q3 ended on September 30th??? That is truly crazy.'
  • Bill Donahue on Apple lets Sony get Peanuts - 'Good point, Rodney. Looks like Sony bought all of Wildbain’s shares in Peanuts Holding LLC, which owns the rights to Peanuts. And if Wildbrain and Apple have some sort of exclusivity for production for *new* content, it obviously means that Peanuts Holding LLC had effectively transferred those rights of use to Wildbrain that are still retained by them and that are unaffected by Wildbrain’s sale of all of its shares in PH LLC. Gotta love property law, and the legal fact that property isn’t a thing, but rather the rights to exclusive use of the thing!'
  • Rodney Avilla on How to build a powerful LLM machine by Thunderbolting four Apple Mac Studios together - 'I use a Studio 1 Ultra, and plan to upgrade whenever the 4 Ultra comes out. For the price, the Studio is incredible.'
  • Bill Donahue on Apple's succession plan - 'A lot of the recently announced executive departures and replacements are occurring at the end of the next quarter. I don’t see Tim Cook leaving within ~1 year of a bunch of new execs starting in the middle of the hurricane of the stormy world that Apple is trying to navigate through right now. Tim’s the one person who’s closest to the heart and history of Apple – handpicked by Steve Jobs to replace him to lead the company – so I don’t see him leaving until the storm’s largely subsided and the executive team is largely fully in gear and operating smoothly. A year’s not enough time for that to happen.'
  • David Emery on Apple's succession plan - 'We know about Apple University and how Steve and Tim worked to institutionalize Apple’s culture. BUT I have to say I think there has been some deterioration in Apple’s core values over the last 5 or so years. Frankly some of Apple’s actions are fodder for “Enshittification” even discounting the areas where I think Doctorow unfairly painted Apple with the same brush as Meta. So if/as Apple is doing a ‘changing of the guard’, there’s the risk that the new people move the company in a direction that I, at least, could consider as ‘worse’. So that’s the challenge for Apple, can they bring forward a new set of leaders in the old Apple culture, rather than leaders who follow the path set by other large tech companies and their executives.'
  • Ron Fredrick on Premarket: Apple is red - 'John Konopka said: “@Joseph Volume was over 111M. It being Friday I guess there were some options involved. A few other stocks showed the same last minute spike.” **John, as Joesph alluded to in his reply, AAPL was at $270.05 at 3:50 PM before finishing at market close, 10 minutes later, at $273.67. Whenever this type of thing happens, especially just before the market close, I’m once again thankful my wife and I are 100% invested in AAPL instead of trying to trade it. Trading any stock reminds me of when I confronted the slot machines in a South Lake Tahoe casino over 50 years ago. I allowed myself to gamble one roll of nickels…and then I was done gambling. Now granted, my money was a lot scarer in those days but my desire to gamble is the same as it was then.'
  • Joseph Bland on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Hi, John. Upvoted! A lot of that volume was in the last 6 or 7 minutes of the day. AAPL closed at $273.67, with the low just a bit before closing at $269.90, or a 1.4% swing. Also, the close was $23.67 above Max Pain of $250, or a 10.6% difference. What were options people smoking?'
  • John Konopka on Premarket: Apple is red - '@Joseph Volume was over 111M. It being Friday I guess there were some options involved. A few other stocks showed the same last minute spike.'
  • Romeo Esparrago on How to build a powerful LLM machine by Thunderbolting four Apple Mac Studios together - 'Funny you mention Nvidia. This article says Nvidia is ahead of Huawei (with its Ai Chips 2-17x more powerful and 2 years ahead). So if Apple is ahead of Nvidia, then … there you go! Article : “China’s AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can’t Catch Nvidia and U.S. Export Controls Should Remain” by Chris McGuire, December 15, 2025, Council on Foreign Relations (cfr dot org).'