You mean the same reasons like the Coyote thought it would be a good idea to buy the Acme company?
Acme had self-driving cars (that didn't explode on contact), a great search algorithm (that didn't redirect all searches to bulk purchasing of nitroglycerin), server infrastructure (that wasn't running Exploding@Home), and documentation that it had stolen its product ideas from Wile Co.?
Originally Posted by Gatorguy
Except it would then be Apples search algorithm freely used by everyone since they owned Google.
You don't think the creators thereof (not employed by Apple) would be a little miffed, at any rate?
I think everyone should stop pretending that investors as a whole make decisions about stocks on any sort of rational basis. If they did, stock manipulation wouldn't be so easy.
I think there's a mix of investors, but too many invest with passion. Those are the ones that get burned. They are stuck complaining about manipulation after the fact. If there was any manipulation, it is not in analysts using FUD to drive the price down. The biggest drops in Apple valuation have been when Apple reports actual numbers. The manipulation would have been when analysts irrationally drove the price up to the $700 range without the numbers lining up- but you can't really blame the analysts entirely right because the rising stock price was 'proving them right.' Nobody was complaining about that while they were 'making money' on Apple shares. People loved the company, and they bought a lot of shares.... that drove the price up higher and 'confirmed' that Apple stock was a winner and so more people bought into it. When it is that exuberance that is driving shares up more than actual sales numbers its time to get the hell out. In the end, Apples actual sales are indeed stellar, but not $680 billion stellar (which is I think about where the $700 stock price would put them).
Could Apple Insider stop quoting "Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets" recurring garbage? Every of his biased predictions about Apple turned wrong lately, it is maybe time to notice...
Very sad, since he is the biggest Apple bull around. But you knew that.
Android is actually getting cleaner. Looking at the HTC One I can say I'm likely going to buy this handset if it comes to Verizon. I think that this handset is what Apple should have done with the iPhone 5 and was too lazy or unable to do. I'm tired of the dated iOS look and feel and all of the hardware limitations. The habit of Apple doing a trickle effect in hardware releases has grown stale and change needs to be made. Just as Apple's customer service seemingly having gotten worse too. Everyone has their own conceptions of how Apple is. Mine is that the golden days have passed and the future looks murky.
A year to forget because they ONLY continued to make incredible amounts of money.
Perpetual increase in share price is a foolish goal and that's all people seem to care about when they're in "the market." Bunch of self-fulfilling prophecy crap. It's all about impressions and rumors. All nonsense. What a great model for an economic system.
"White believes Apple should leverage its $137.1 billion cash balance to attract investors and built a "safety net" around the stock."
This is exactly what Apple should NOT do! Investors not being attracted by APPL is their own problem not Apple's...
This may go in the list of worst Apple suggestions right along with "Apple should shut its door and give the money back to the shareholders", "Apple should stop making HW and license their OS", "Apple should drop the Mac and focus on only making iPods", and "[Everyone will be sorry for buying an iPod] when Microsoft releases their [Zune]." Okay, that last one was from The Big Bang Theory.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Releasing Google's search publicly. Just freely allowing anyone else to use the algorithm.
But anyway, this is all fantasy in the first place. An Apple->Google purchase would be blocked by every government.
Except it would then be Apples search algorithm freely used by everyone since they owned Google.
Originally Posted by mstone
You mean the same reasons like the Coyote thought it would be a good idea to buy the Acme company?
Acme had self-driving cars (that didn't explode on contact), a great search algorithm (that didn't redirect all searches to bulk purchasing of nitroglycerin), server infrastructure (that wasn't running Exploding@Home), and documentation that it had stolen its product ideas from Wile Co.?
Originally Posted by Gatorguy
Except it would then be Apples search algorithm freely used by everyone since they owned Google.
You don't think the creators thereof (not employed by Apple) would be a little miffed, at any rate?
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I think everyone should stop pretending that investors as a whole make decisions about stocks on any sort of rational basis. If they did, stock manipulation wouldn't be so easy.
I think there's a mix of investors, but too many invest with passion. Those are the ones that get burned. They are stuck complaining about manipulation after the fact. If there was any manipulation, it is not in analysts using FUD to drive the price down. The biggest drops in Apple valuation have been when Apple reports actual numbers. The manipulation would have been when analysts irrationally drove the price up to the $700 range without the numbers lining up- but you can't really blame the analysts entirely right because the rising stock price was 'proving them right.' Nobody was complaining about that while they were 'making money' on Apple shares. People loved the company, and they bought a lot of shares.... that drove the price up higher and 'confirmed' that Apple stock was a winner and so more people bought into it. When it is that exuberance that is driving shares up more than actual sales numbers its time to get the hell out. In the end, Apples actual sales are indeed stellar, but not $680 billion stellar (which is I think about where the $700 stock price would put them).
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Originally Posted by Sensi
Could Apple Insider stop quoting "Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets" recurring garbage? Every of his biased predictions about Apple turned wrong lately, it is maybe time to notice...
Very sad, since he is the biggest Apple bull around. But you knew that.
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Originally Posted by Barrett Falter
Android is actually getting cleaner. Looking at the HTC One I can say I'm likely going to buy this handset if it comes to Verizon. I think that this handset is what Apple should have done with the iPhone 5 and was too lazy or unable to do. I'm tired of the dated iOS look and feel and all of the hardware limitations. The habit of Apple doing a trickle effect in hardware releases has grown stale and change needs to be made. Just as Apple's customer service seemingly having gotten worse too. Everyone has their own conceptions of how Apple is. Mine is that the golden days have passed and the future looks murky.
I just got one, and it is a beautiful device.
Perpetual increase in share price is a foolish goal and that's all people seem to care about when they're in "the market." Bunch of self-fulfilling prophecy crap. It's all about impressions and rumors. All nonsense. What a great model for an economic system.
This may go in the list of worst Apple suggestions right along with "Apple should shut its door and give the money back to the shareholders", "Apple should stop making HW and license their OS", "Apple should drop the Mac and focus on only making iPods", and "[Everyone will be sorry for buying an iPod] when Microsoft releases their [Zune]." Okay, that last one was from The Big Bang Theory.
How much time is left for the earnings report? Can someone tell me?
Time left before it starts is approx. 50 minutes: http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/13houbqwdvowuhb04/event/index.html
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How much time is left for the earnings report? Can someone tell me?
Shortly after the market closes (4:00 PM Eastern)
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Shortly after the market closes (4:00 PM Eastern)
On the website it said 2pm?!
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I just got one, and it is a beautiful device.
Congratulations!
I hope it'll make you trot off to the HTC forums........ phew....
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How much time is left for the earnings report? Can someone tell me?
Shortly after the market closes (4:00 PM Eastern)
4.30 PM. (Three minutes away).
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Originally Posted by mstone
Shortly after the market closes (4:00 PM Eastern)
On the website it said 2pm?!
Ok I was just guessing. Perhaps they meant Pacific as the market has been closed for a few minutes.
Follow Soli's link above.
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4.30 PM. (Three minutes away).
3?
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4.30 PM. (Three minutes away).
3?
I guess is is 5 PM. So, 33.
Report out AAPL beats street in revenue.
The stock will go sideways, IMHO, am sitting this one out, betting on Starbucks with reduced coffee prices and not cutting their retail prices.
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We have a beat, as well as an increase in dividend and expanded stock buyback. Share prices should jump tomorrow
who told you that? otherwise you should be banned.