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  • Apple loses exclusive rights to 'iPhone' trademark for non-smartphone products in China

    paul turnerpaul turner

    sog35 said:
    Apple needs to rely less on China for revenue.

    How? Services. Period.

    Facebook and Google only do advertising and they are worth $800 billion combined.

    Tim Cook has to get of his high horse on privacy and start building an Apple advertising empire.

    Tim Cook always spews about how important privacy is.
    But Apple users don't give a crap.

    86% of iOS users use Facebook.
    http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-iOS-Android-Google-Apple,news-16588.html

    80% of Google's mobile revenue is from iOS users
    http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/29/google_earns_80_of_its_mobile_revenue_from_ios_just_20_from_android

    85% of iOS users use at least one Google service.



    All this means that iOS users don't give a crap about privacy. That is why Apple needs to build their advertising empire.  

    With advertising Apple would not need to rely on a communist state.
    First rule of business, stick to what you are good at and excel at that. Apple is not an advertising company. They are an engineering company specializing in selling mostly hardware. 
    gatorguy

  • Apple loses exclusive rights to 'iPhone' trademark for non-smartphone products in China

    paul turnerpaul turner
    sog35 said:
    cali said:
    I'm beginning to think Apple SHOULD move production to India.
    Unfortunately it's not so easy.
    they gotta start sometime even if its small at first.

    why not just build the iPhone SE in India or Vietnam?

    this is why Apple needs to go deeper into services. 
    Because these two countries do not have the required number of workers and engineers at such short notice to be able to make  a phone every year. You would be the first to be ragging onApple if engineering delays force the slip of a new model.

    You are behaving like most people in the US whose ability to fully understand the complexities of any issue defaults to one sentence sound bites like for instance one of the Republican contenders who appeals to superficial thinking on every issue. 
    singularity

  • Apple, Samsung, Facebook, Amazon & the case of the 'very bad' Q2

    paul turnerpaul turner
    I wish DED would shut the bleep up!

    I want the stock to drop back to under $90 so that I can ride it backup to the $110 once the stupidity of these articles DED mentions comes to light as we go towards the inevitable fall rally into iP7 release.
    monstrositycornchipjbdragonviclauyycicoco3

  • Citing concerns in China, activist investor Carl Icahn no longer owns shares of Apple

    paul turnerpaul turner
    SpamSandwich said:
    cm477 said:
    Interpretation: Now that he doesn't have a long position (and might be short), he now needs to depress the stock price to buy back shares. Hopefully this weakness is temporary as the big funds (aka sheep) trim their positions, and the stock price never comes back enough for Icahn to get back in.
    You cannot short the stock unless you own the stock. Icahn no longer has a position in AAPL.

    excuse me but you can short a stock without owning it, you do need margin in your account of course
    kevin keeanantksundaram

  • Citing concerns in China, activist investor Carl Icahn no longer owns shares of Apple

    paul turnerpaul turner
    sog35 said:
    SpamSandwich said:
    AAPL has broken below $95 and possibly headed toward $90. The Icahn announcement will surely add to the selloff action. Incredible amount of negative activity around the stock.

    Also, I think Icahn is not wrong about China. China is a real threat to Apple's growth plans, plus if Trump gains the presidency (or even Hillary, for that matter), I predict a real ramp up in protectionist policies for the US, which will directly impact Apple.
    strong support is $92

    If that breaks then we could easily go to the mid/low $80's.

    China has always been a threat. This isn't anything new. This is more about Tim Cook's failure.

    A company like IBM has had shrinking sales for TEN YEARS STRAIGHT and it still has a higher PE ratio then Apple. That is absolutely PATHETIC and lies squarely on the CEO. 

    If this was a one time freak even then I would give Cook a pass. But Apple has been severely undervalued by Wall Street for his entire time as CEO. Its time for a new face. A new vision. 

    and your buy at $99 is clearly screwed unless you are scaling in , I agree with your $92 support. I'm going to wait till it breaches below that $91 before risking any money and only buy a 1/3 even then, if it drops more another 1/3  at 85 if it rises thru 95 another 1/3.
    kevin kee