Romeo Esparrago on Premarket: Apple is red - 'I was hoping not to buy the real PowerBooks because of space – I have a miniatures computing display on one shelf of my vertical iKea glass case that has 3D printed palm-sized versions of an Apple//, an IBM PC/AT (I built a clone in college), a Pico Mac128K, a black MacBook Pro, and a fictional “Severance” Lumon Terminal Pro. Also on that same shelf, there are an Apple Swatch watch, five iPods, an old AppleTV remote, some Apple swag knick-knacks, and an old Mac Mini (not 1st generation) upside with its bottom removed to show its interior. Allowed by my wife since it’s not taking up our garage or attic LOL! And I’m still using my Gen1 Vision Pro that I will keep (not use LOL) in perpetuity since I believe it’s one of Apple’s pivotal products (whichever direction future products go).'
on Saturday Apple video: Ted Koppel interviews Steve Jobs (1981) - 'Back home, Phil? Will we be seeing some trip video next Saturday?'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'I’ve got a date with an orthopedic surgeon on July 15 (knee replacement). Before then I’m not very mobile. Afterwards I’ll be laid up for 3-6 months. So count me out.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'John Konopka said: “Sundance in Palo Alto is great for a steak dinner.” **Cafe Pro Bono in Palo Alto is also a great place for dinner, John. Plus, depending on how many folks might show up, they have a great separate room we could use.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - '236… Ron, I went in way harder than you with an initial purchase of 250 shares on October 2, 2000. Where was your conviction! Although I’m only about 85% concentrated…. But would have done better if I never listened to any ‘advisers’ and gone 100%. Well done you.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - '@Gregg: Thank you for always posting these intricate details of your option purchases. Interesting how that world operates and knowledge is always beneficial to equities owners.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Hi, John. Sounds like a plan! “Apple 3.0’s Steaks at Sundance”: What say folks? Donna and I can get a room for the night easily enough, and she loves a get-together!'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'My target is the old Jiminy Cricket song: “I’m no fool. No Siri ( 🙂 ) I’m going to live to be ninety-three.” Which my dad did. BUT – which was updated to “one hundred and three” MY target (at 80 – till next week. 😉 )'
on Premarket: Apple is red - '@Ron, We are mostly in the hold camp. However, I did take advantage of the recent run up to sell a small percentage for my fairly expensive retirement project. Lucky to be able to do that. My first year out of college I earned about $3,000. Now I pay many times that in tax, and happy to do that considering the alternative. Apple was almost even today on high volume, about 56M shares. Google was down so now Apple has passed them in market cap, slightly.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Joseph, your comment made me wonder if the technology someday would allow thousands of people attending a sporting event to use the camera of their iPhones for this — in real time, take video of the game, stream it through an app to a central center where AI stitches all of them together to produce a full 3D experience, complementing the normal 3D camera setups from the game. Watchers could then sit in any seat, at any time. We already have pseudo-3D effects where the POV is shifted on static images to make them seem like a transition between images. Now no need to interpolate the transition. Heck, now there could be a camera in the right place every time to look at offside. Most shots would be way too far away for close-up actions, but what could be accomplished with 1000s of images put together? I know the power of this from personal experience. Cryo-EM uses thousands of images taken of proteins from electron microscopy images. Each image does not have enough resolution to actually see structural details well. But using computers to align thousands of them, we can now get details of protein structure, even inside the protein, not just the surface. This gives us insights into large, complicated protein complexes never able to be seen before. The law of large numbers can be very clarifying. Maybe something similar with fans, their iPhones and thousands of high resolution videos?'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'The idea behind technical indicators, such as RSI, is to gauge short term supply/demand imbalances. An overbought RSI indicates there has been a lot of buying lately and that might imply the number of buyers going forward might be less than the number of sellers waiting in the wings. That completely ignores anything changing regarding a company’s fundamentals, and more generally, whether or not something has happened that would alter the otherwise normal distribution of buyers and sellers. It is indeed backward looking, as are many other technical indicators, such as Bollinger Bands and On Balance Volume (OBV).'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Costco just reported and shares are off 4.87% at $946.70 on a slight miss on eps expectations. The warehouse club operator is reporting record demand for fuel, an uptick in membership and an all-time high cash balance. Is another Costco special dividend in the offing? At least one analyst believes that’s the case. The shares are off about 6% on a one-year basis.'
