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If Apple could only get the health insurance companies to boost sales by them offering LTE AppleWatches to their subscribers. That could go a long way to helping Apple move a lot of AppleWatches. I wonder if Apple is actively pursuing insurance companies. Tim Cook isn't much of a go-getter. Apple always expects someone to simply come to them.

They have to be guessing at those figures as there's no way to tell by way of Apple. I can only trust Apple to give the correct figures if they're going to give them at all. As a shareholder, I don't need to know how many HomePods are being sold as long as Apple's revenue increases in whatever combined category the HomePod falls under. The HomePod has a long way to go to get all the features it was intended to have. A year is fine as long as Apple has other products that are selling. The HomePod is likely a long-term play and there's no way it's going to immediately go up against Amazon Echo devices that are practically disposable. There's no way Amazon can lose based on unit sales but revenue and profits will certainly be to Apple's advantage. As the hardware is quite advanced, once Apple improves Siri, the HomePod will be a revenue driver.

A lot of smartphones will be using notches, so what? A lot of smartphones also lost their headphone jacks. It just takes time for certain things to become standards. There will certainly come a time when Samsung follows other manufacturers and ends up like everyone else. I don't think any manufacturer is right or wrong about what features they want to remove or add. That's their choice to satisfy whatever features they think their customers prefer in a smartphone.

All the big hedge funds are piling into Facebook because they know the company can't be touched by the Feds. Despite all the moaning and groaning about loss of personal privacy and data breaches, the big investors are more interested in making money than all that consumer privacy nonsense. Almost no one is concerned with loss of personal privacy and the companies that harvest personal data are the most profitable ones around. Even after the data-breach scandal, Facebook stock is up for the year. Zuckerberg walked away untouched by the Capitol Hill watchdogs.

Hopefully, Buffett's purchases will provide some stability for Apple's share price for a year or so. The market sheep might consider owning Apple just because Buffett is in it. However, I suspect most market money will be going to the FANG stocks as they're always being touted as companies with unlimited growth, unlike Apple. What big investor wouldn't buy stocks that have consistent share gains and no headwinds like all the FANG stocks. If you have the money, always buy the stocks that are constantly being pumped. Plenty of big investors must have made a fortune from Tesla and that company seems to be a rolling financial wreck.