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  • David Wilson on Tata in trouble - 'I meant, “Tata for now…” '
  • Rodney Avilla on Tata in trouble - 'The subheading and text are both wrong. Subheading: Tata WAS leaking contaminants, not IS. The company and government both confirmed the issue has been resolved. Tata is not leaking documents, they were stolen. There’s a big difference. Body text: “Tata faces scrutiny ” is also wrong. Case has been closed. When something from the past that has been resolved is presented as something in the present (implying unresolved), they usually do so on purpose. Let me take a wild guess and say it’s to generate clicks? No, probably just an honest mistake 😉'
  • James Hillhouse on Tata in trouble - 'This is the same song by the same band but different stage. Tata is also the owner of Jaguar Landrover (JLR), which in 2025 had an epic security breach. JLR was using Tata’s own in-house cyber security services, Tata Consultancy Services, which seem to be as bad as they come. Production was shut down for weeks, costing JLR over $500M.'
  • Daniel Epstein on Why Eddy Cue launched Apple TV witout any licensed content - 'Usually after pointing them out he fixes them. Didn’t have time to send him a private email which I have done in the past. And if I see a typo in my own comments I only have 5 minutes after posting to rectify them. Wish I could edit them for a longer time.'
  • Robert Paul Leitao on Premarket: Apple is red - 'As Gregg points out above, it hasn’t been a good day so far for equities. The NASDAQ Composite remains down 1.87% as we approach noon in New York. The S&P 500 is off 1.28% 60% of index components are in the red on the day at this moment in time. Bucking today’s market selloff, Big Blue ain’t singin’ the blues this morning. The shares are up $11.39 or 4.51% at $263.07 as this quantum computing play received an upgrade from JPMorgan. Tech is experiencing quite a sell-off today as data center supplier Vertiv Holdings, for example, is off 10.13% at $321.68. NVIDIA is down 3.50% at $201.34 and Arista Networks is in the red 7.74% at $161.04. Apple is in the green $0.74 at $297.75. Let’s see what happens in afternoon trading…'
  • Robert Stack on Why Eddy Cue launched Apple TV witout any licensed content - 'All because PED is witout aa copy editor – those days are long gone! Forgive him his typos, as he forgives ours! 😉'
  • Robert Stack on Why Eddy Cue launched Apple TV witout any licensed content - '“we had this belief that everyone was chasing a lot of quantity and not quality, and we’ve always been about trying to be the best, not the most,” he said. “We wanted to build television and movies a place where the best storytellers, the best creators, the best writers, the best directors would want to come work there and do their best work.” Gee – that overarching philosophy sounds vaguely familiar…'
  • David Wilson on Tata in trouble - 'Tara, for now…'
  • Greg Lippert on Why Eddy Cue launched Apple TV witout any licensed content - 'Quality is right. In % I enjoy more Apple shows than any other service. I go ATV+ first.'
  • Daniel Epstein on Why Eddy Cue launched Apple TV witout any licensed content - 'First thing I noticed is this typo! “ witout “ any licensed content. “ without” would be better As far as the strategy it might have been a deal breaker if they hadn’t come up with a few must see shows relatively quickly. And later an extra a in “aa pair”'
  • Romeo Esparrago on Apple share of the world's wrists just keeps growing - 'Ditto here.'
  • Romeo Esparrago on WSJ: Apple owns the best smartphone customers, takes most of the profits - 'Co-author Jiyoung’s last name up top is misspelled, Mr. Philip. It’s just Sohn.'
  • Gregg Thurman on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Corning is a major supplier of Apple’s, and has absolutely no connection whatsoever to “AI”. With GLW showing strength as a major supplier to Apple you might expect strength in AAPL, but no, the only strength AAPL is showing is resistance to NASDAQ weakness. Could the NASDAQ’s major selloff today be a reflection of an “AI” selloff, only impacting AAPL on the periphery? NVDA had been down this morning by as much as ~$6.80 -3.30% (more than the NASDAQ’s implosion). That represents an aggregate decline in NVDA of about 14.2% since its recent ATH. It should be noted that NVDA has traded even lower in recent days printing 3 days of intraday lows in the $199’s earlier this month.'
  • Gregg Thurman on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Here’s the good news. At 7:26AM Eastern the US Indexes are down: DOW -$101 -1.31% S&P 500 -$258 -0.48% NASDAQ -$812 -2.69% AAPL (down -$1.96 -0.68% with flashes of down $0.00 0.00%) is bucking the Indexes big time. It appears that this morning may be setting up a repeat of yesterday trading when AAPL was down throughout premarket then went positive at the bell, rising to $302.42 before Closing down $1.00 -0.34%.'
  • Robert Paul Leitao on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Let’s just call this kind of a challenging day on the Street. On the S&P 500 just over half or about 53% of components were lower on the day. Super Micro had an ousting day. Its shares rose 15.66% to $35.46. Even our friends at Corning had yet another up day. The shares rose 7.65% to $209.83. My view is after following the company for awhile if Corning had made the Looking Glass for Alice, she might have seen and experienced even more fascinating things! GLW, the ticker symbol for Corning, represents the former name of the Company which was Corning Glass Works and they do amazing things with the material! Year-to-date the shares are up about 140%.The shares have sold off overnight and are down 3.92% at $201.60. Speaking of lower, SpaceX has moved back closer to earth, dropping 16.43% today to $154.60. The “all-time high” for the stock (there’s only been six days of trading!) was set last Tuesday at $225.64. Apple dropped $1 today to close at $297.01.'
  • Ben Gepp on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'You say Ives needs a ‘Steve Jobs’ to guide? Well in this case that Steve Jobs was Ferrari. Ferrari, a sophisticated brand, was the client who commissioned Love From as their consultant. Ferrari was involved from inception to completion and along the way Ferrari’s ethos, without doubt, would have been conveyed to Love From. There is no way that Love From designed this in isolation and without Ferrari’s blessing. Ferrari would have commissioned them on a well considered and comprehensive design brief, backed up with market analysis. It’s their brand and their intention – it was Ferrari that designed the chassis and powertrain, and that contributed considerably to the form factor. Industrial design is way more than coming up with a form factor. I fail to see where the arrogance is on Ives’ behalf. I also fail to see how this incredibly niche product can cause so much castigation? Had this been the Apple car…'
  • Bill Donahue on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'But that’s entirely the point, Bart: Ive’s design would never have been done for VW etc, because his design isn’t something VW would ever have gone for – because he needs Steve Jobs (or someone like him) reading the room to determine what people will actually want. Clearly Ive completely ignored everything about Ferrari’s brand and image, in favour of what he thinks it should be. That arrogance is his biggest problem as a designer. Being an avant garde artist is fine, but it doesn’t work in industrial design unless you’re coming up with a product or form factor that is far superior to anything that’s come before.'
  • Bill Donahue on KGI lowers Apple rating to Neutral, raises target $9 to $315 - 'It bears mentioning that the NASDAQ returned 34.6% in the last year, and the Dow Jones returned 22.5%. Apple is up 47.8% during the same period. So Rob’s 22% return overall in the last year didn’t exactly blow the doors off of anything.'
  • Rodney Avilla on KGI lowers Apple rating to Neutral, raises target $9 to $315 - 'Gemini- Ming-Chi Kuo built his legendary reputation as the premier Apple supply-chain analyst, working there from roughly 2013 to 2018.  However, he left KGI back in 2018. He is currently a market analyst at TF International Securities (a financial services group based in the Asia-Pacific region), where he still publishes his highly regarded insights on Apple, OpenAI, and global tech supply chains.'
  • Ben Gepp on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'Sorry all… but this gnashing of teeth and ballyhoo over the Luce because it doesn’t ‘feel’ like a Ferrari or doesn’t elicit the correct ’emotional’ response is bordering on the offensive. I’m confident Ferrari is not a category on Maslo’s Hierarchy of needs. In 2025 Ferrari manufactured 13,640 cars, in a world that has a population of 8.23 billion, meaning 0.000166% of the worlds population that will drive a 2025 Ferrari to be emotionally fulfilled. Sadly 99.99983% will not, resulting in the great unwashed failing to become… emotionally self actualised. Remarkably, however, the Luce appears to be sold out through to late 2027 – not bad for a design that ‘sucks’. Objectively the Luce is exemplary design on many levels. Remember that the power train was designed by Ferrari (which in itself many remarkable attributes). This set the wheel base and the battery location, precluding a typical 2 seat design. Love From designed the body and the interior. The fit and finish of the car is clearly ar a high standard and something Tesla owners would only dream of. The ergonomics and interface appeared to be rigorously resolved and driver focused. The stated aerodynamic performance of the car is excellent. It has a low coefficient of drag, which also reduces wind noise, whilst still incorporating some downforce. The aesthetic is refined and refreshed with meticulous detailing. It is clearly the hand of Ives and Newson. The car also incorporates recycled material, something that without doubt a Love From input. Design is hard and it is about making compromises in the quest for best fit solutions. It involves consideration of; many stakeholders, varying technologies, cost, materials, production, market etc, etc and aesthetics. Producing highly resolved products of the complexity of the Luce is even harder. Well done to Ferrari and Love From for this accomplishment. My advice, don’t buy one if the Luce fails to meet your emotional needs.'
  • Gregg Thurman on KGI lowers Apple rating to Neutral, raises target $9 to $315 - 'Isn’t KGI [Securities] the home of Ming Chi Kuo?'
  • Daniel Epstein on KGI lowers Apple rating to Neutral, raises target $9 to $315 - 'As far as I can tell there is no information about the reasoning in the article. It is just someone reporting about this call. Nothing to see here. I don’t think this analyst knows anything if that is all that is reported.'
  • Steven Philips on Apple share of the world's wrists just keeps growing - 'My thought, too. The article talks about shipment share but what about all the hand-me- downs? I’ve given away two that are still in use.'
  • Steven Philips on WSJ: Apple owns the best smartphone customers, takes most of the profits - 'Along with Vivo, Oppo, Honor and Motorola! But… a world without Honor?'
  • Steven Philips on Ben Thompson: Why Tim Cook gave an emergency interview with the WSJ - 'Yes! Good people on both sides! 🙂 (Sorry 🙁 )'
  • Steven Philips on Ben Thompson: Why Tim Cook gave an emergency interview with the WSJ - 'I can still hum the Peter Gunn theme! Henry Mancini was great! (Of course I can still do 77Sunset Strip and the Ipana toothpaste commercial, too! – Bucky Beaver! 🙂 )'
  • Steven Philips on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'A “know-it-all”. 🙁'
  • Steven Philips on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Well, it’s up by a hair at the moment, but…'
  • Gregg Thurman on KGI lowers Apple rating to Neutral, raises target $9 to $315 - 'A short time ago I described analyst targets in terms of future view. The first tier were those targets that are underwater. I described them as seeing no future in AAPL. The second were current value that I described as the period between Earnings Reports. Rob’s new price target fits in this group. The third, and last, group are reserved for those that see a future in AAPL. Their targets are for 3-6+ months out. I read the logic behind the first two groups, but put more weight on those looking beyond their noses.'