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gmgravytrain said:

I still can't understand how Apple's management missed the signs of a fully saturated smartphone market. It seemed so obvious to practically everyone else.

paul turner said:

gmgravytrain said:

Hedge funds always dump losers, so I suppose it's not that unusual for them to be dumping Apple. Instead, they'll be buying Amazon, Tesla, Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. It's not easy for a CEO to ruin a company unless he's trying to do it deliberately. Tim Cook has really soured most of the big investors. Think of how many shares Apple can buy back for $75 a share. It will be interesting to see how many since that's where Apple appears to be headed. I suppose it was inevitable Apple becoming a second-rate investment after joining the Dow. The Dow curse must be in full effect at this point. No investors will be buying Apple unless they surely want to lose their money. I still can't understand how Apple's management missed the signs of a fully saturated smartphone market. It seemed so obvious to practically everyone else.

I dumped the remaining shares I owned at $107, and have been making good premium selling naked calls all the way down! I love Apple I have made so much money on this recent collapse. Its going to be a long summer for Apple and I'm guessing the stock will go to 80. In any event, I'll follow the key traders and just follow the trend which ever way it goes. It's generally easier to make money by following that momentum. I won't sell any puts until the stock has consolidated and then sell the volatility as it bounces up. I would think it might rally towards the IP7 release and by selling ITM PUTS sell even more of the vol. Even if they get PUT to me , I'll simply sell covered calls on those and make even more profit. I don't give damn about predicting iPhone sales or arguing with people on here about , what will or will not be the new design, what matters to me is that the stock moves   and that there is  a good amount of volatility to make some quick profits as it rolls up and down between support and resistance. 

If that were to  happen they will make money from the whiners who waited too long to sell and capitulate at the bottom. The smart guys are the ones who sell when pivot points are breached because their experience tells them there is more risk than reward at those points the whiners probably know very little about how to trade like these "smart" guys and vent their frustration in the wrong direction. 


Such is the MO of losers/victims - all they do is whine about everything as they get wiped out. 

Occupy the App Store? Top 1% of monetized apps dominate 94% of US App Store revenue

So? 90% of apps are crap. And of the remaining 10%, 90% is again crap (but of course less than the 90%).

This leaves us with 1% of apps -- and they should have 99% of revenue if it was just them, but they have 94% -- 5% more going to the 99% of crap apps.

In case you think that's too little, 1% is still like 10,000 - 15,000 apps out of over 1,000,000 apps. 

Do you even know 10,000 non mobile apps? Do you even visit 10,000 web pages?

In search there's just Google and (sort of) Bing. In Social there's just Facebook, Twitter and Google+. In video it's 99% YouTube.

Those are actual monopolies and problematic situations -- not 10,000 good apps out-winning 1,000,000 of whatever sort people threw out at the App Store.

hmlongco said:

Okay, I get why it might be a good idea for a plus-sized iPhone to have a Smart Connector.

But what I don't get is why, on all of these "leaked" photos and documents, the Smart Connector is located on the back of the phone and not on an edge like it is with an iPad?

The change in position prevents you from using the same charging stands, custom keyboards, and other accessories manufacturers might have developed that could have supported (sic) both products.

Something like this...

hucom2000 said:

Plus, Intel is not an audio company either. So it's likely that this plug will be designed to please the masses, not music lovers. Those people who can't tell the difference between an MP3 track and 24bit/96kH recording and don't care about it.