plovell

Yeah - I remember that from a few years ago when the "analysts" drove the price from +$700 in October to exactly $500 at year-end. Interestingly, the $500 was the option strike price for that period.

"...the only real explanation of how Samsung managed to completely squander its five year head start in smartphones" may be a bit harsh. Samsung likes to characterize itself as a "fast-follower" but in this case it was out ahead. It's true that it didn't know where it was going, at that time no-one did. Even Apple was still wrestling in the labs with a still super-secret idea.

So Apple wasn't exactly the second-to-market, but had the second idea which was the touchscreen and no physical keyboard. I bet that Steve Ballmer and the folks at Nokia wish they could retract their trashy comments when Steve first showed iPhone.

Soli said:

Scenario: I lose my credit card.
Action: I have to order a new card, and remove that card from my Watch, iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

My experience is that if you report a card lost then it's automatically disabled for Apple Pay. You don't have to do it yourself. Only a sample size of "one" though.

tundraboy said:

I suppose Motorola Solutions has no corporate connection to Motorola, the android phone maker.

Maybe it does, but realized they needed to offer a better solution

Getting very close to the magic $142.86 number. What's that, you ask? It's $1,000 per share in pre-split shares.