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I think I would like to be able to buy phone data from Apple - this may not be feasible, but I would like it.  Why not ?  A new services business for them.

The S&P, as well as the other Market Indices, does not need to be manipulated or to use a more descriptive term: COOKED by WallStreet.   I tired of Wall Street manipulating things to make them look good.  Maybe you are also.  

I do not like to review trends that have been cooked or manipulated.  Let Wall Street sell Stocks, Bonds, Regulated Crap, and realized that their business has changed.

None of my Apple Products are what I would consider to be essential.  But if I have them, I benefit more than their cost.  All of them have been beneficial. The Leading Edge can be the Bleeding Edge.  I will say that other products I have from other suppliers are in the trash can of life - the dump somewhere.

We can conjecture for the rest of our lives, but we will not benefit by those thoughts - Not At All.  Time would be better spend doing something productive - not blogging.  Reading articles and making substantial comments re technology, direction, etc.  Not doing what if's or how about, or Apple blew it.

Apple has many paths that we will never know; we should not know.   It is good business for you to not know. You might figure out some of those paths if you know enough about technology, but you had "better not really know".  I learn something useful everyday.  Apple does not have to tell me.  Their stock price is enough' their Cash flow is unsurpassed.  Even if we think their products are not block busters, you do not need to know.  If you did, the competition would know also. If they see a big, oversized Filet for Lunch, they want a bite of the lunch.  

It is simply a matter of the Manufacturing Technology being able to meet the needs.  The Software is key, but the hardware has to be affordable and perfected or we , the people cannot or will not buy it.  They need quality & quantity. A few thousand parts will not meet their needs - except for experimentation.   I feel the Need for Speed. It does not matter how fast hardware gets, the demands on the hardware increase rapidly.  Thus R&D increases , but not beyond the need or the direction of need.  They know what they are doing or need to do & we do not know.   Just put some money on the Paper Certificates (stock) that Apple sold along time ago.  We the consumers, institutions are trading the paper. Apple is buying it back.  When you buy Stock that is not being newly issued, remember that the company is not getting the money we pay to the Stock Brokers.  Someone is happy with their gain, needs to take the gain, and sells it to us.  Or they are spooked.  How many times have those who are Spooked been wrong ?

Certainly cannot Blame Mr Buffet's group for buying a discounted cash flow or trading idle cash for working capital.
I don't.  
Why were the Analysts wrong and what was the penalty ?  
Reason ?
Penalty ?  No Penalty. 

What I have reported many times to Apple and AppleCare is the hearing difficulty many people have on their iPhones.   I have 2 now & have had more than I ca remember.   There have been similar problem all of the phones with no fix coming out of Apple.  My hearing tests are fine.  The phones of the competitors are fine when it comes to hearing. In fact, Samsung & others are better - I hate to say it because I know Apple has spent "tons of diamonds" on their products.  No improvement when it comes to hearing or taking on the iPhones.  They have acoustic labs that others would love to have.  The Primary Purpose of the Phone is to be able to Talk and take the Place of the Land Line.  But it is inferior.  Just test the iPhones and compare them to the land line phones or the cell phone competition.  I can do it for them, but I am too busy with what I do.  I only have a "Ream of Apple Stock Certificates" - so I am not important enough. Apple has to be almost perfect in every way.  I route / make my cell calls on over my Mac.  It is better than the iPhone . Period.  It works great, but the iPhone speakers are not that great.  I understand the logistics of not being to get the parts in the quantities you need. In the old days , they did not have the money or the credit to get what they wanted or needed.  Now they have all the money and they cannot get the parts they need or want.  The best ones cannot be delivered in the quantities that Apple Needs - So they Design the best chips to do the jobs they need.  Great Logistics Planning on Apple's Part.  If we cannot buy the parts or they are not good enough , we will just design them and build them or get a factory to do it - even if we have to put Millions of $ toward doing it.  They are the best. The A Series chips are smoking , as are Apple's other designs.  The power management chips will be better than anything they have to purchase.  The Display technology will be the best for the $'s and the needs.   Their Cell Chips will  be better than what they have to buy from QualCom.  QualCom is shaking in their boots as is Intel.  If you can give it a little time (not months or days) it will all happen and will smoke the others. 

I just want to be able to use the Phone to converse.  So I will get the next Apple Wireless EarPlugs and the Next Watch and the Next Computer with a wide screen meets my needs and it better not have this stupid keyboard that they have introduced in the past few years.  I touch type and it is terrible for me.  The key travel is off.  The distance between the keys is off.  It will not be a 12" screen MacBook.  I often use the other ones I have.  

Need I had the iPads are great.  But I want to run some A series Apps on my Mac.  The mouse pointer would be fine.  Either do it in software with they can already do in the lab or put an A Series in with an AMD or Intel chip or Run iOS and MacOS on a new A series chip. Before I die will be best.

I Love and am Heavy Apple.