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  • Robert Paul Leitao on This week's Apple trading strategies (5/11-5/15/26) - 'Roger: Perhaps next week I should bring back the Fabulous 15. Micron is #13 on the list with a market cap of $842.20 billion. AMD is 15th on the list with a market cap of $742.23 billion.'
  • Gregg Thurman on This week's Apple trading strategies (5/11-5/15/26) - '” I’d like to see Apple to push into the $320 range this calendar year.’” That would be most delightful.'
  • Robert Paul Leitao on This week's Apple trading strategies (5/11-5/15/26) - 'Gregg: Apple’s one-year share price performance, and the performances of all of the equities and indexes listed, occurred with the backdrop of a market recovering from the “Liberation Day” sell-off. For example, Apple’s 3-year share price performance comes in at a gain of 65.67% and the shares have a five-year gain of 120.75%. 
 I expect the share price to perform well going into WWDC 2026 and, if Apple delivers on expectations, for the share price to continue to move higher through the balance of 2026. There are several economic and market forces likely to push the share price higher. However, there are many equities likely to benefit from today’s market conditions including several components of the Terrific 10. In general, I don’t consider equities to be inexpensive at this stage in the current bull market. There are conditions that will continue to push corporate earnings higher for age least the next few quarters. I’d like to see Apple to push into the $320 range this calendar year.'
  • John Konopka on YouTuber Vadim Yuryev anticipates a ton of new hardware at WWDC26 - '@Gregg Maybe the intro-video for the keynote will be some sort handoff where Tim gives John the keys to the kingdom.'
  • Joseph Bland on WSJ: The iPhone is gold - 'IOW, Hap, lack of social connection doomed the Neanderthals. Is there a better way to describe what’s going on with humanity these days? The article makes the point that modern humans are a mixture of homo sapiens and other near-humans, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. But our homo sapiens’ roots appear to favor socializing over conflict. And that gives me hope.'
  • Joseph Bland on WSJ: The iPhone is gold - 'Interesting you should say that, Hap. Just read this in Apple News: Excerpt From “”They wore clothes, wielded fire, and created art; they may have even been smarter than us…” Just who were our closest cousins?” BBC Wildlife Magazine https://apple.news/AoEixeO5RRGymI1-J3Ekqfg This material may be protected by copyright. “By CT scanning the braincases of Neanderthals, researchers have discovered their brains were organised slightly differently to ours. Neanderthals had larger eyes and better vision, perhaps an adaptation for living at higher latitudes with less light during long, dark winters. This implies they had larger visual cortices and that more of their brain was dedicated to visual processing. In contrast, Homo sapiens are thought to have had larger cerebellums, which is where all the complex, social cognitive processes take place. This may have allowed Homo sapiens to socialise better than Neanderthals, sharing knowledge and skills with neighbouring tribes. In fact, it’s widely thought that this ability to socialise is what ultimately allowed humans to proliferate, spread across the globe, and outlive their closest cousins. While their brains may have been built slightly differently, Neanderthals engaged in many of the same activities as us. They had their own unique cultures, ritualistic practices, and – believe it or not – tastes in fashion… …However, a study published in April, 2026, suggested Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change and/or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, this study used a combination of modelling, archaeological evidence, and ethnographic data, to arrive at the conclusion that the key factor that drove Neanderthals to extinction was social connectivity – or the lack thereof.”'
  • Steven Philips on This week's Apple trading strategies (5/11-5/15/26) - 'I hope so! 🙁 But that’s what dampened me about Ive’s comments. He was positive about Meta.'
  • Roger Schutte on This week's Apple trading strategies (5/11-5/15/26) - 'Re: the market cap leaders….Micron will knock 10a + 10b out before the end of this year.'
  • Les Surdykowski on Mark Gurman: I'm right and Horace Dediu is wrong about Apple Vision Pro - 'HAMLET Madam, how like you this play? QUEEN The lady doth protest too much, methinks. HAMLET O, but she’ll keep her word.'
  • Kenny Kruger on Mark Gurman: I'm right and Horace Dediu is wrong about Apple Vision Pro - 'If this shows up on Prediction sites, All in on Horace '
  • Joseph Bland on Mark Gurman: I'm right and Horace Dediu is wrong about Apple Vision Pro - 'Thanks for the link, Farshad! As of the present, there is zero competition for the VP. Apple can take its time.'
  • Hap Allen on WSJ: The iPhone is gold - 'Homo sapiens can do some horrendous things. But at our best–that is, when we cooperate–amazing things can happen.'
  • Gregg Thurman on This week's Apple trading strategies (5/11-5/15/26) - 'MSFT and AMZN yes. META no. META’s history of failed products and legal woes will dampen investor’s interest in the equity.'
  • Gregg Thurman on This week's Apple trading strategies (5/11-5/15/26) - '”Apple (AAPL) up 48.52%” As discomforting as the past couple years have been, clearly Apple has resumed a growth phase (as illustrated this past few weeks). WS has digested the narrative and likes it. I don’t think 48% is sustainable, given Apple’s size, but a return to a multi-decade average of 26% is. With the June quarter being the historic low performing quarter of the year, after July Earnings and GUIDANCE I expect to go all in on AAPL.'
  • Fred Stein on Mark Gurman: I'm right and Horace Dediu is wrong about Apple Vision Pro - 'Tune out the noise. Take signal from Max Bickley, Product Manager on NVIDIA’s Omniverse team who said, in so many words, that the AVP is the only platform that can handle the client side of their ‘reality streaming’.'
  • David Emery on YouTuber Vadim Yuryev anticipates a ton of new hardware at WWDC26 - 'Releasing a new AI software development focused Mac Studio might make sense at WWDC.'
  • Gregg Thurman on Mark Gurman: I'm right and Horace Dediu is wrong about Apple Vision Pro - '” Before it debuted, there were multiple reports from multiple sources that suggested (a) that Sony could only manufacture a maximum of 900,000 displays per year, capping dual-display Vision Pro headsets at 450,000 per year” It doesn’t matter how you price an item if you can’t produce them. Sony is no longer listed as a Vision Pro component provider. In Sony’s place there are now two Chinese display manufacturers. Being an investigative reporter is not the same thing as a content creator for a rumor mill.'
  • Stephen Gordon on This week's Apple trading strategies (5/11-5/15/26) - 'FCF for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta will be flat, possibly at zero for Q3, due to capex. Will the market grant them a reprieve until 2027 and not penalize them in the short term?'
  • Gregg Thurman on Mark Gurman: I'm right and Horace Dediu is wrong about Apple Vision Pro - 'There’s two minutes out of my daily reading schedule I’ll never get back, and I got nothing for them.'
  • Farshad Nayeri on Mark Gurman: I'm right and Horace Dediu is wrong about Apple Vision Pro - 'Gruber, who is not without his own inside sources: https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/on_the_future_of_apples_vision_platform'
  • ben luna on Wedbush raises its Apple target $50 to Street-high $400 - 'My understanding is that he failed to deliver on the updated Siri resulting in the professionals from the Software Engineering department (Craig’s org) to be called in to the right the ship. How they got to that point without knowing it was a dud must be a pretty interesting story. Did JG lie to upper management about the progress? Did upper management not even ask about the progress and assume he would deliver on time and at scale? I have some hypothesis, but nothing more than that, yet like you said earlier, upper management was also bamboozled by Dag Kittlaus back when they made the original acquisition. Not a great track record.'
  • Michael Goldfeder on Mark Gurman: I'm right and Horace Dediu is wrong about Apple Vision Pro - 'A head on collision between a tricycle and a tank would be more competitive to watch. Eddie v. Horace? Bring it on and don’t forget the popcorn.'
  • David Emery on Mark Gurman: I'm right and Horace Dediu is wrong about Apple Vision Pro - 'Gurman peering into his rectum and deciding “it’s dark in there!”'
  • Robert Paul Leitao on This week's Apple trading strategies (5/11-5/15/26) - 'Below are the one-year share price performances of the Terrific Ten equities ranked by percentage gains over this time and the percentage gains in the major stock indexes over the same period. Alphabet (GOOG) – up 154.93% Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) – up 135.87% Broadcom (AVGO) – up 106.96% NVIDIA (NVDA) – up 83.35% Tesla (TSLA) – up 50.39% Apple (AAPL) up 48.52% NASDAQ Composite – up 46.40% Amazon (AMZN) – up 41.96% Russell 2000 – up 41.20% Walmart (WMT) – up 33.87% S&P 500 – up 30.63% DJIA – up 19.92% Meta Platforms (META) – up 1.94% Microsoft (MSFT) – down (5.26%) Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) – down (7.27%) Over this particular one-year period share price performances are apt to be strong for equities and gains in index levels are apt to be high because one year ago at this time share prices were bouncing off of “Liberation Day” lows. Apple’s 48.52% gain over this one-year period ranks the company 6th in performance among the ten components.'
  • Robert Paul Leitao on This week's Apple trading strategies (5/11-5/15/26) - 'Entering this week’s trading, below is the market cap scoreboard of the Terrific Ten. These are the 10 largest enterprises ranked by this metric. For the second week in a row I’ve kept Berkshire on the list in the “11th” spot due to its trillion dollar market cap. NVIDIA (NVDA) $5.23 trillion Alphabet (GOOG) $4.86 trillion Apple (AAPL) $4.31 trillion Microsoft (MSFT) $3.08 trillion Amazon (AMZN) $2.93 trillion Broadcom (AVGO) $2.04 trillion Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) $1.90 trillion Tesla (TSLA) $1.61 trillion Meta Platforms (META) $1.55 trillion Walmart (WMT) $1.04 trillion Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) $1.04 trillion Last week the Nasdaq Composite, S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 reached new all-time highs. NVIDIA hit new all-time highs and pushed further above $5 trillion in market cap. Alphabet set new all-time highs on Friday and is up 26.15% over one month’s time. Apple also set new all-time highs and ended the week at $292.32, up $5.90 on the day and up 4.70% on the week.'
  • Gregg Thurman on YouTuber Vadim Yuryev anticipates a ton of new hardware at WWDC26 - '” The processors will enable hardware upgrades. ” A great big Whoops, that should have read ”software”'
  • Kenny Kruger on YouTuber Vadim Yuryev anticipates a ton of new hardware at WWDC26 - 'Unlikely (but possible) given the every 3 year history…. Apple Vision Pro (2023): The first major hardware category since the Apple Watch was unveiled here to give developers time to build spatial computing apps. Apple Silicon Transition (2020): Apple officially announced the move away from Intel, providing a “Developer Transition Kit” (a Mac mini with an A12Z chip). The Original HomePod (2017): First announced as a high-fidelity speaker and home hub. iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4 (2008–2010): Early iPhones were actually summer releases launched at WWDC before the schedule shifted to the fall with the iPhone 4S.'
  • David Drinkwater on YouTuber Vadim Yuryev anticipates a ton of new hardware at WWDC26 - 'No. New. Hardware. . WWDC is about software. I’m almost ashamed to bring out the age-old “developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS” meme, but I just couldn’t help myself.'
  • David Emery on YouTuber Vadim Yuryev anticipates a ton of new hardware at WWDC26 - 'Why are we giving “some dude with a camera podcasting from his basement” any attention?'
  • Horace Dediu on YouTuber Vadim Yuryev anticipates a ton of new hardware at WWDC26 - 'Every year pundits put out their fan fiction lists of hardware expected at WWDC and every year Apple announces new versions of their operating systems so developers can prepare for the new hardware in the fall. Because it’s a developer conference. As in the DC in WWDC. Pundits publish their disappointments and then wait for next year when they can make up a new fan fiction list of hardware.'