That should keep the investors happy for a bit. Could add a nice chunk'a change to Apple coffers. It may have taken longer than hoped but now that' the deal is in the can Apple's market share there can only go up and probably fast.
The positive aspect of this getting delayed into January is that we will be able to separate out the Christmas sales from the Chinese sales since they both will fall into separate quarters.
The media will find a way to put a negative spin on this. Already many of the headlines are referencing the fact that the announcement didn't mention any terms or prices. Morrow will be a day when any other stock would have gone up double digits (look at BlackBerry going up 15% on Friday even though they announced a $4 billion loss), yet I'll be surprised if Apple is up more than 1%.
I hope not the case, but sadly it might end up being the case, because Wallstreet hates California and they have manipulated this stocks for many weeks! They will find some reason to sink the stock! FU Wall Street!
Time for a Californian rival to Wall Street! Sunset Boulevard sound good to me.
This may be perfect timing because it would have been difficult to deliver holiday iPhones to the world's smaller ISP's + huge intro deliveries for China Mobile.
G[quote name="Dick Applebaum" url="/t/161285/china-mobile-signs-deal-with-apple-will-launch-iphone-5s-5c-in-january#post_2449072"] $70 or bust (adusted for a 10 for 1 split)[/quote Good call, I've held this through highs & lows not about to sell now for anything much less than ATH
The one thing Apple has left on the table is a larger screen phone which Apple most likely would address on 2014. How Apple would rule the world is anyone's guess.
Since the deal was widely expected your prediction is likely pretty accurate. What will move the stock is if Apple either fails to meet expectations or wildly blows the doors off them.
According to Counterpoint Research, the iPhone 5s, 5 and 5c were October’s No. 1, 2 and 4 top-selling smartphones, with Apple grabbing 12 percent of that month’s market share. (in China)
Its call a short squeeze, and it will be spectacular...
I think a short squeeze would only happen if it was found that China Mobile had committed to 100 million phones for each of the next three years.
You can't tell me that this deal wasn't expected to some degree by the analysts. Some of this news was already factored into the share price. The stock only went down 2% when it was learned that somebody jumped the gun. I think that if the analysts thought that the deal was actually dead then the stock would be well below $500 by now.
There will be a bump up in the next week but I think the really healthy push will be when q1 is announced alongside a forecast that CM sales have been better than anticipated and will be maintained as such over the next two quarters.
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You could not think of a few positive reasons? You are really dumb.
Pretty sure his post was a sarcastic jab at stock market analysts, Sheldon.
And so it begins!
The positive aspect of this getting delayed into January is that we will be able to separate out the Christmas sales from the Chinese sales since they both will fall into separate quarters.
Time for a Californian rival to Wall Street! Sunset Boulevard sound good to me.
You could not think of a few positive reasons? You are really dumb.
I really am one of the faithful, stockholder, and customer, just got my LTE Retina Mina, completing the trifecta, iP5s, iPad Air and the Retina Mini.
The NYT already threw water on the deal, used some of the stuff I posted and threw in that "Gasp, Apple is in 5th place in China now"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/technology/apple-and-china-mobile-sign-iphone-deal.html?pagewanted=all
Perfect for a nice Q2 boost.
This may be perfect timing because it would have been difficult to deliver holiday iPhones to the world's smaller ISP's + huge intro deliveries for China Mobile.
Go Apple, Go CM.
Fantastic. So that gives 2 weeks of sales before Chinese New Year, the biggest buying holiday of the year.
That is a big effen deal. Chinese New Year is a monster holiday, like Christmas on steroids.
I'd like to see AAPL priced where it could [reasonably] be bought by the small investor... Again...
$70 or bust (adusted for a 10 for 1 split)[/quote
Good call, I've held this through highs & lows not about to sell now for anything much less than ATH
“Android was first.”
Uh… huh.
Well, for one, by not doing that.
Its call a short squeeze, and it will be spectacular...
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Its call a short squeeze, and it will be spectacular...
I think a short squeeze would only happen if it was found that China Mobile had committed to 100 million phones for each of the next three years.
You can't tell me that this deal wasn't expected to some degree by the analysts. Some of this news was already factored into the share price. The stock only went down 2% when it was learned that somebody jumped the gun. I think that if the analysts thought that the deal was actually dead then the stock would be well below $500 by now.
There will be a bump up in the next week but I think the really healthy push will be when q1 is announced alongside a forecast that CM sales have been better than anticipated and will be maintained as such over the next two quarters.