sacto joe

Lock-step thinking isn’t the sole provence of a particular political party, as has been starkly shown in the last couple of days. There’s no easy way to be rational, because thinking deeply and objectively is hard work. But it does seem that politicians in general are pretty lazy thinkers - or else just willing to do incredibly stupid stuff in service to a vested interest. Citizens need to take everything they say or do with a very, very large grain of salt.

anantksundaram said:

Can't help but note the fact that Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, all with leadership that could fairly be described as being left-of-center, are being hoisted by questionable, possibly even even vacuous, charges brought by their own.

Ah, the irony...

“Can't help but note the fact that Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, all with leadership that could fairly be described as being [moderate] are being hoisted by questionable, possibly even even vacuous, charges brought by their own.”

There. Fixed it for you.

But I can understand how you could make the mistake. The Republicans have moved so far to the right that it makes moderates seem lliberal.

Nothing really different than all the multitudes that go after Apple because of their deep pockets. Greedy leaches, every one.

Apple, OTOH, dares to make a computer ecosystem so desirous that folks are happy to pay them top dollar. They take care of their customers, and their customers take care of them. No greed basis whatsoever, but rather a virtuous cycle.

charles1 said:

For Apple computer owners, the most horrifying website in existence is "What if I had bought Apple stock instead?" It lists the retail price of Mac computers when new, and the equivalent value of AAPL stock purchased with that money at that time. But it only goes back to 1997. It is horrifying enough to see that G3 I bought in 97 could have gotten me $300k in stock returns. But what about my OLDER computers, like my IIcx, Apple IIc, Apple IIe, etc? I would have been a damn millionaire. But instead, I am still paying on the student loan I used to buy that G3.

Sour grapes much?

I bought my first computer on credit (a Mac) in 1984 for over $3 K, including dot matrix printer. It had two programs (MacWrite and MacPaint), 512K of RAM, and required "disc swapping" to save files. Per your "analysis", I should have put it in AAPL instead - notwithstanding that 1984 Mac literally changed my family's lives to the positive, and I consider it my best investment ever.

Without that Mac, my wife would never have gotten into computer sales, would never have ended up working for several years at Apple, and would probably never have bought ANY AAPL. And that's just one person out of my family.

PS: I still own that 1984 Mac, and a ton of software for it. Wonder what that's worth today....

Aside from the guessing game about how many iPhones were sold, which is all these folks are left with now that Apple doesn’t inform them of the quarterly sales breakdown with this and other products, there’s the fact that market share is more and more a meaningless metric.The truly meaningful metric is installed base, which has been growing like Topsy for years and years.

(From Horace Deidu’s “The Pivot”) 

http://www.asymco.com/2019/05/16/the-pivot/

“The iPhone is the most successful product of all time. Over 1.6 billion have been sold. Including the iOS products it spun off, the total is over 2.2 billion. Of those 2.2 billion sold, 1.5 billion are still in use. There are about 1 billion iPhone users.”