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Mel Gibson
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There's a rotten Aplle in every bag.
Mel
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:26 am on April 20, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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AAPL's had the best 2nd quarter ever - and I expected the stock to plummet after the announcement, and it didn't. Went from $161, to $168 and change. Weird, and unusual.
Came across an awesome quote, though, from a recent analysis of Apple, and tech stocks in general. Great quote:
Young people — by which let’s say we mean college-aged and younger — are buying Apple products in both remarkable numbers and with remarkable devotion. Apple’s strength in this market is both wide and deep, and it includes both iPods and Macs. (I suspect students are a big reason why Apple’s laptop sales are growing so much faster than their desktop sales.1) And, investor-strategy-wise, I also think Cramer’s right that this particular point (Apple’s popularity and iconic status in the youth market) is one that most Apple analysts are overlooking or underestimating.
It’s a potential gold mine. The younger one is, the more disproportionately one tends to care about what’s cool.2 Apple’s kit is very cool, and their competitors’ kit ranges from “not cool” to “totally lame”. When you’re old and everyone around you is doing or buying something you don’t understand, you think they’re assholes; when you’re young, you do it/buy one, too. They don’t have preconceptions (or misconceptions) about Macs dating from the ’90s or ’80s because anything pre-iPod is prehistoric from their perspective.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 11:19 pm on April 24, 2008
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ThaidUp
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 1:45 pm on April 25, 2008
Apple’s strength in this market is both wide and deep
I am glad this is not a strength of TG's whereas skinny & tight would be better attributes.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:33 pm on April 24, 2008
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black cats
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To be fair, Mel is certainly not the only member in this thread to doubt that apple still has momentum. Any look at any recent business article credits increased iMac sales for apple's stronger earnings.
Apple has been profitable before the iphone and doesn't rely solely on that product for its success. Steve Jobs, like him hate him (he seems like a prick to me) knows how to design products, or get people to design them, that appeal to consumers at a price that is affordable enough for consumers and garners a profit for apple.
The key is the AVERAGE patron loves their apple products. Extreme computer geeks love Windows, but does the average PC owner love it as well?
I think more people will switch to iMacs as their PCs become obsolete and they do not wish to build a computer, again, and spend all of their free time debugging and updating a microsoft OS every hour, again.
Will apple overtake microsoft? That isn't the point to me. Will they continue to increase earnings through a variety of means (such as being the largest reatiler of music in the US) ? I think that's a certainty.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 12:15 am on April 25, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from quack quack on 2:36 pm on May 2, 2008
Daffy, do all us AAPL stock holders a favor by telling us at what price we should dump this stock.
I can't answer that question for you, as it depends entirely at what range you bought into it.
If you bought 1,000 shares of Apple when it was at $8, then your original investment of $8,000 would now be worth $720,000 - so this might be as good a time as any 
On the other hand, if you bought in at $120... well, it's ultimately your choice.
My strategy, at least as I see it right now, is to wait for the stock to hit roughly $220, at which point I plan on selling about 50% of my holdings. This is expecting that at some point within the 3 months after this happens, that the stock will undergo a usual fear and externally induced dip, at which point I plan on sinking that earlier sale back into it. My outlook is a decade into any stock purchase, from the date of the purchase. This is less about 'at what price', but rather, 'around what date'. as for target price, I'm looking at the equivalent of $325/share, for a variety of reasons.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 12:52 am on May 2, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from black cats on 2:41 pm on April 25, 2008
Will apple overtake microsoft? That isn't the point to me.
Steve Jobs has no interest in overtaking Microsoft - at least by the criteria the mainstream judges such things.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:56 am on May 2, 2008
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Baskoy
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 3:18 pm on May 2, 2008
If you bought 1,000 shares of Apple when it was at $8, then your original investment of $8,000 would now be worth $720,000 - so this might be as good a time as any
Am I being thick ? but if I had a 1000 shares which are worth $180ea surely that makes them worth $180,000 ??
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:38 am on May 2, 2008
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Abrak
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I sold my AAPL stock at US$160 on the way down. It didnt seem too smart at the time (they were over US$200 a month earlier). And it doesnt look to smart now that aapl has recovered to over US$150.
Still I think it is treading water and I still think it will end the year between US$150 and US$180.
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:12 am on May 2, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from Baskoy on 9:04 pm on May 2, 2008
INC 368-1527
Since the stock was at $8, AAPL stock has split twice - meaning your original 1,000 shares, would now be 4,000 shares.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 10:23 am on May 2, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from Abrak on 10:38 pm on May 2, 2008
Still I think it is treading water and I still think it will end the year between US$150 and US$180.
Wow, is it the end of the year, yet?
(considering it's at $180 today, as another poster already pointed out).
Quote: from Abrak on 10:38 pm on May 2, 2008
And it doesnt look to smart now that aapl has recovered to over US$150.
Damn, you really are showing your roots as a stock analyst - a little bit behind, there, with current news, aren't you? (particularly since quack quack just pointed out the current price of $180).
Apple's value is now quadruple Dell's
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/05/02/apples-value-is-now-quadruple-dells/
There's no love lost between Steve Jobs and Dell founder Michael Dell. Back in 1997, when Michael was CEO of Dell, he famously told a group of IT big wigs, ""What would I do [if I were in charge of Apple]? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
Oh, Michael. That's the kind of statement that waits in a corner for years, thinking, "I'm going to bite him in the backside... hard."
The time has come. Earlier today, Apple rose $6.05 (3.48%) in NASDAQ trading, closing at $180.00. Compared to Dell's standing, Apple's market value of $158.66 billion is now four times Dell's $38.97 billion.
Only a year ago, we were excited that Apple had doubled Dell's value. Here's to the next twelve months.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:26 am on May 2, 2008
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