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12-23-2012, 05:15 AM | #16 |
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12-23-2012, 05:15 AM | #17 |
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12-23-2012, 05:19 AM | #18 |
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No one releases numbers these days. Everyone simply declares victory without stating exactly what victory means. I'm OK with that. I don't need to know that my phone or tab is the most popular -- I just want to know they sold enough to keep making spare parts and accessories.
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12-23-2012, 06:29 AM | #19 |
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My local Apple Store seems to sell out of the iPad Mini as soon as they get delivered. That counts as a successful product, to my mind. It's not about technical specs; it's about perceived desirability in the mind of the consumer, and the Mini has that. If they can sell all they can make and charge $350 (or whatever it costs) for it, what would be the point of pricing it at $199? Apple's never tried to compete on the grounds of price.
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12-23-2012, 06:34 AM | #20 |
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12-23-2012, 06:36 AM | #21 |
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12-23-2012, 06:48 AM | #22 | |
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It's Christmas. Can't we all just get along?
In this spirit, I present you with the latest commercial for the iPad Mini, a little girl singing "Ill Be Home for Christmas" over FaceTime to her granddad: Oh, so sweet, no? But wait, she's actually just mocking old granddad, says CNET's Chris Matyszczyk*: Quote:
Happy Holidays everyone! *Tongue firmly implanted in cheek. |
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12-23-2012, 06:50 AM | #23 | |
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12-23-2012, 07:39 AM | #24 |
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Apparently, the only ones capable of offering true, objective opinions on Apple—the company—are the ones who don't give enough of a damn about it to offer any opinion one way or another. Everyone else are simply labeled haters or fan(boys|girls).
So it's with absolute objectivity that I say ...... meh. *shrugs* |
12-23-2012, 07:44 AM | #25 |
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Strange I don't see the last picture.
Back to the 2nd point in the title. "leaky stock" Now I will ask some questions I don't have the answers for, but I have been thinking about. Why did Apple's stock go down? Was there insider info to drive the drop? Many times there is. Could the mini be a part of the drop? There are always people at a plant, at a headquarters, in the manufacturing facility, in the sales/ordering dept., in shipping, etc., that know real numbers. They know expected planned for numbers and they know the current numbers and they know if the numbers are revised. Something to wonder about. |
12-23-2012, 08:17 AM | #26 |
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Because it bubbled up. Started the year just above $400, peaked around $700 in late September or early October, and is now around $515 (can't be arsed to do more than look at a 1-year graph, BTW). So still an improvement, overall.
(for the same period, Google started about $650, dipped to like $590, back up to $650 for April, back down to just under $600 'til September where it got up to like $775, back down to $650 for mid-November, and now around $715; Apple's still worth more, though, since they seem to have a lot more shares on the market than Google does). |
12-23-2012, 08:52 AM | #27 |
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oops.
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12-23-2012, 09:23 AM | #28 |
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JD Gumby
You are talking about normal market fluctuations, etc. We could talk about higher capital gains next year, and taking the yearly quotas out of 401s but what I am saying is that there may have been a little tidbit of knowledge that bubbled out of Cupertino, maybe about sales numbers, and caused more movement than normal cause there was a lot of movement. |
12-23-2012, 11:08 AM | #29 | |
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I think a lot of people simply took profits ahead of increased taxes on income and dividends. You can see what insiders are doing here...
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=AAPL...r+Transactions There's no way to tell what they are thinking, though, since trades have to be announced. and this makes as much sense as anything... from http://www.streetinsider.com/Insider...d/7944493.html Quote:
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