Robert Paul Leitao on This week's Apple trading strategies (12/1-12/5/25) - 'Index futures are definitely in the red as we move into the overnight hours. In Japan in early Monday trading the Nikkei 225 is off 2.02% and the TOPIX is off 1.23%. Nearing 12:30am in the east Apple is off overnight $2.02 at $276.83.'
on This week's Apple trading strategies (12/1-12/5/25) - 'I am actually at the far end of the state from you, Robert. And it was too cold to be out at the beach here, too. I was just being silly about reading the sand. I meant to make it clearer that I don’t have any real basis for my prediction, just my general feeling that the company is anything but going downward. It’s going upward, and with it, I hope the stock as well.'
on Apple iPhones only for Israeli Army officers, no Androids - 'Mordechai Beizer said: “Actually PED, I think you are. Before making a backhanded comment panning the IDF try reading some of the commentary by foreign military officers on how the IDF has managed to maintain high ethical and moral standards in a war where their opponent does everything they can to cause civilian casualties.” **Ah, input from “foreign military officers”…I’m sure that would be completely unbiased. /s How about reading: https(colon)//www.atlanticcouncil(dot)org/blogs/menasource/coi-war-crimes-hamas-israel-october-7-gaza-hostages/ It was written in July of 2024 and targets both Hamas AND Israel. I included most of what they had to say about Hamas. What they had to say about Israel doesn’t suggest that the “IDF has managed to maintain high ethical and moral standards”. “The COI found that members of Hamas’s military wing, other Palestinian armed groups, and Palestinian civilians committed war crimes and violated international humanitarian and human rights law in their October 7, 2023, attack. Palestinian militants’ indiscriminate rocket fire toward populated places in Israel—killing eighteen civilians on October 7, 2023, and in following weeks—also constitutes the war crimes of murder and intentionally directing attacks on civilians. Palestinian fighters also committed the war crime of outrages upon personal dignity by desecrating corpses, including burning, mutilating, lacerating, decapitating, and undressing and subsequently exhibiting bodies. Finally, the COI found that militants committed the war crime of taking hostages—often combined with outrages upon personal dignity and inhumane treatment, including sexual and gender-based violence, assault, harassment, and intimidation—by abducting 252 people from Israel (approximately twenty security forces and the remainder civilians, including thirty-six children) and brought them to Gaza. As of May 21, half of the hostages were released or rescued, with the remainder in captivity, whether alive or dead.'
on Apple iPhones only for Israeli Army officers, no Androids - 'Actually PED, I think you are. Before making a backhanded comment panning the IDF try reading some of the commentary by foreign military officers on how the IDF has managed to maintain high ethical and moral standards in a war where their opponent does everything they can to cause civilian casualties.'
on Apple iPhones only for Israeli Army officers, no Androids - 'How come people expect a level of conduct from democracies they never expect from dictatorships? Hypocrisy comes to mind.'
on Apple iPhones only for Israeli Army officers, no Androids - '“ rationalizing here for killing civilians and starving the rest as a way of eliminating the problem of Hamas” I don’t believe anyone on this blog is rationalizing killing and starving, which by the way are methods used by Hamas when they confiscate food meant for Palestinians, use innocent Palestinians as cover for their munitions and Army, and actually kill innocent Palestinians for “not supporting them enough“. Hamas has declared genocide against Israel since their formation, and repeat it as often as they get the opportunity. One final thought. If Israel was trying to commit genocide, then they are the most inefficient country attempting so since the beginning of the human race.'
on Apple iPhones only for Israeli Army officers, no Androids - 'Agreed, Ron and Steven, “kicking ass” and retribution should never include genocide.'
on Apple iPhones only for Israeli Army officers, no Androids - 'There seems to be a lot of rationalizing here for killing civilians and starving the rest as a way of eliminating the problem of Hamas. What is it? A hundred (or more) of theirs for each one of ours? Sounds familiar!'
on Apple iPhones only for Israeli Army officers, no Androids - 'Upvoted both of Gregg’s posts. Any discussion of the topic must include Iran, Hamas’ backer. Their proxy war in Yemen has cost 370,000 lives, many of them civilians. They have spent the entire first 1/4 of this century arming themselves and their proxies. And they supported Russia’s war against the Ukrainian people with their drones.'
on Apple iPhones only for Israeli Army officers, no Androids - '“Hamas declared war.” I’m not defending Hamas.'
on Apple iPhones only for Israeli Army officers, no Androids - 'Given how deep Mossad has penetrated so many of its enemies via the target’s cell phones, it only makes sense that the reverse risk is real too. Post Oct 7 the security establishment has realised that previously the different branches weren’t co-ordinated enough. If anyone know’s cell phone vulnerabilities it would be the Mossad and a reasonable guess they are now advising the IDF. Non-military types should also listen to this advice.'
on Don't pick on Apple Maps or Ads, Cupertino tells Brussels - 'A dealer/mechanic who can’t immediately diagnose a bad battery is just flat incompetent. If it’s a dealership, I’d raise that with the district zone manager.'
