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    RattyUK

    RattyUK 2:13 pm on January 17, 2011 - 488 days ago

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees:

    Team,
    At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company.

    I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all of Apple’s day to day operations. I have great confidence that Tim and the rest of the executive management team will do a terrific job executing the exciting plans we have in place for 2011.

    I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can. In the meantime, my family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy.

    Steve

     
    • chach17

      chach17 2:41 pm on January 17, 2011 488 days ago

      So I think this begs the obvious question. What does this mean for Apple’s stock price in the near term? I for one am thankful that this has been announced on a day that the market’s are not open. An extra day for this news to be digested will hopefully cut down on the volatility.

    • Nicu

      Nicu 2:54 pm on January 17, 2011 488 days ago

      http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/chart?symbol=AAPL.F

      AAPL went down in Frankfurt as much as 8.7% today – I hope it will not be that much in a more liquid market tomorrow, in any case this breaks somewhat my options strategy :(

      I wish him well !

    • carlmuck

      carlmuck 3:10 pm on January 17, 2011 488 days ago

      Yes, I guess tomorrow will be more interesting than usual for an earnings day. I wonder about the timing, just before earnings, rather than just after. Wonder if this is pre-saging really, really good numbers, get the “bad news” out now so that the “great news” isn’t drowned out.

      I, luckily, got out of all my AAPL positions on Friday. I was expecting the usual pull back post earnings, and was preparing to re-enter in the $305-315 range. If European trading is a true indication, it looks like I may be in sooner than I thought.

    • conshmillo

      conshmillo 3:19 am on January 18, 2011 488 days ago

      First, best wishes to the man! I hope whatever it is he is fighting he can beat it again. He seems to be very pragmatic man and he seems to be able to do the uncomfortable decisions today for the sake of better future. I wish him best luck in what he needs to do in regard to his health and to recover soon.
      As for AAPL’s stock price, it should be quite volatile in the next few days. First there could be a quite selloff as a reaction to the news. If it dips too far, there could be some opportunists to load up after the dip in hopes of price bouncing back on earnings. Yet after the earnings price may drop yet again, induced by people taking profits after the earnings and reacting to uncertainty in regard to Steve’s return. Uncertainty creates pullbacks.
      As I posted here, I got July 330 PUTS at the beginning of this month. They went against me after Apple announced iPhone on Verizon. I was planning (before I learned about Steve’s announcement) to buy tomorrow (Tue) few very short term (Jan) calls that would expire on Friday, to offset the most probable earnings explosion and then to cost average my puts day after the earnings by buying more puts, expecting some profit taking after the earnings. I think a lot of the earnings expectations is being already priced in.
      Now I will just have to watch how low it will get on Tuesday, if any and unload some puts if advantageous. If it doesn’t pull back too much on Tuesday, my expectation is it will pull back more after the earnings.

    • Nicu

      Nicu 6:35 pm on January 18, 2011 487 days ago

      http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110118-712098.html

      “A few years ago, the stock would be down 20% to 25% easily,” said Shaw Wu, an analyst at Kaufman Bros. “It’s not as meaningful anymore.”

  • 10
    RattyUK

    RattyUK 11:14 pm on November 22, 2010 - 544 days ago

    Thought I’d try and kick off a discussion here…

     
    • Zee

      Zee 2:49 am on November 23, 2010 544 days ago

      Good upgrade.

    • Birra

      Birra 1:49 pm on November 23, 2010 543 days ago

      Good update, BUT…

      I was really excited about AirPlay, just use your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, pick a video and hit the new icon that makes it appear on your Apple TV. So I tried it with Netflix and MLB At Bat and all I got was audio. Turns out Apple has been threatened again (just like with the programmable SIM), that if they did supply video, Apple TV would be cut off (like Google TV has been cut off).

      It does work with iTunes, YouTube, and Pod casts. So it looks like SJ will have to be patient and drag these idiots into the new paradigm.

    • conshmillo

      conshmillo 3:32 pm on November 23, 2010 543 days ago

      Print was one of the things iPad was missing. It didn’t make sense to have Words and Numbers on iPad but not being able to print from it. So AirPrint is one of the 3 must have things I had on my list for iPad.
      It is shame about AirPlay and Netflix as it defies it’s purpose!

    • RattyUK

      RattyUK 9:42 pm on November 23, 2010 543 days ago

      Well I will chime in here… If you have a Netflix account and an Apple TV your are all set… Is there really any point in duplicating a feature? You can have up to six devices attached to each account so it is a non-issue really.

      Printing is fine but could do with some control over what you print… perhaps that will come. (Long web pages will print in their entirety, would be nice to just print the first page – you know the one with the bit you are interested and not the 8 pages of adverts and links which follow)

      • Birra

        Birra 9:14 am on November 24, 2010 542 days ago

        @rattyuk Reply To: “Well I will chime in here‚Ķ If you have a Netflix account and an Apple TV your are all set‚Ķ Is there really any point in duplicating a feature? You can have up to six devices attached to each account so it is a non-issue really.”

        You’re looking at it from a Netflix centric point of view. I’m looking at from a Apple centric point of view. e.g. I’m playing a movie on my iPad in the den and decide I’d like to move to the living room, bang, I hit the icon and my Apple TV picks it up. That’s so cool. It makes Apple’s ecosystem the center of my experience.

        • RattyUK

          RattyUK 8:06 am on November 25, 2010 541 days ago

          @birra
          But that’s how it works anyway. Watching the episode on the iPad, move to the front room, and the AppleTV picks up where you were, or the PS3 or the XBOX 360 or your Mac or your PC…

          • Birra

            Birra 9:09 am on November 26, 2010 540 days ago

            @rattyuk
            You’re still looking at it from a Netflix point of view. Yes, I can be watching a movie on my iPad, then go to the living room and pick up the Apple remote, bring up the Netflix menu and choose continue. That’s quite different than looking at it from an Apple point of view where I simply hit the icon on my iPad and walla the movie shows up on my Apple TV.

    • GotWake

      GotWake 1:23 am on November 24, 2010 543 days ago

      I’m on vacation, so I haven’t upgraded yet. I agree that Airprint was a must have. I’ll probably wait a few days for the untethered jailbreak for the iPad.

      On a side note, my wife’s iPhone case cracked so I let her use mine. So, what happens? I dropped and cracked the screen on my iPhone 4. :( pissed me the f&@$ off. First time it has touched the ground in 4 months. Thank goodness for SquareTrade. I do wish it was a little tougher. It’s just a shame to hide it in a case.

    • RattyUK

      RattyUK 10:15 am on November 26, 2010 540 days ago

      At the moment though that is all blocked. There are no 3rd party public APIs to let you do this… yet. And Google are having enough issues trying to get the content providers to allow their all-singing all-dancing Television solution.

      Misunderstood what you meant though Birra, as in you were talking from ANY video source as opposed to the Netflix app. When you said “play a movie” I assumed you meant from within netflix. My bad.

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    RattyUK

    RattyUK 7:18 pm on August 31, 2010 - 627 days ago

    we thought.

    Apple are live streaming the event:

    http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/08/31alert.html

     
    • mikeinmontreal

      mikeinmontreal 10:34 pm on August 31, 2010 627 days ago

      If they are announcing numbers, they must be pretty good since they are definitely wanting people to tune in….last I’ve read, seems like iTV may be a go with Netflix, Fox and ABC on board…at 99$….glad I have a 6GB data plan….I’ll be listening while I work….

    • conshmillo

      conshmillo 2:16 am on September 1, 2010 627 days ago

      Things I am reading are pointing out to the introduction of the North Carolina data center. Streaming the presentation should be part of the presentation!!

    • Nicu

      Nicu 3:42 am on September 1, 2010 627 days ago

      so most people working with the live info should have a Mac or an iOS device as the others cannot stream it :)

      if there are some TV / radio / bloggers / day traders who do not have Ô£ø machines, this may be an extra argument to get them :)

    • mikeinmontreal

      mikeinmontreal 6:25 am on September 1, 2010 626 days ago

      I read that VLC can play the stream, but in starts and stops…on both Mac and Windows….

    • Nicu

      Nicu 6:46 am on September 1, 2010 626 days ago

      yep, that’s why I was referring to people who work with it, not only watch it for curiosity :)

      these little thing like interminable boot-ups, defrags, driver search, virus, antivirus, antivirus update etc. add up and at some point even the most conservative must jump from the boiling water or else …

    • RattyUK

      RattyUK 7:49 am on September 1, 2010 626 days ago

      The format Apple is streaming in is an Apple created, open standard. Unfortunately the PC-using twitteratti who are criticizing Apple for not making it available to them seem to not grasp the difference between open standards and actually bothering to implement them.

  • RattyUK

    RattyUK 2:34 pm on August 25, 2010 - 633 days ago

    http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/25/apple-to-hold-special-event-september-1st-well-be-there-li/

     
  • 5
    RattyUK

    RattyUK 11:34 am on August 18, 2010 - 640 days ago

    Looks like Google has decided to compete with Apple by giving stuff away. Very strange business model. I know they want to earn from the advertising but, excuse my french, they just seem to want to f*** Apple at any cost.

    “As for the launch date of November 26th, well, that’s all kinds of brilliant. It’s Black Friday 2010 and the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S. — so what better day to have a shiny new tablet in the cabinet at Verizon kiosks and stores all over the country? You can bet Google’s Chrome OS tablet will be heavily subsidized, and I’d go so far as to say it will be substantially cheaper than the iPad — if not totally free — with a Verizon data contract.”

    http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/08/18/google-verizon-chrome-os-tablet-on-sale-november-26-2010/

     
    • GotWake

      GotWake 2:55 pm on August 18, 2010 640 days ago

      What the heck is wrong with these companies? Does anyone outside of the Apple campus know the word “profit”?

    • Nicu

      Nicu 3:33 pm on August 18, 2010 640 days ago

      they are petrified, scared to death of Apple: Google, HTC, Rim, Nokia, Nintendo, Sony, Dell, Microsoft, HP, Motorola, Intel, LG, Samsung and I surely forget many … they just hope to survive by shamelessly copying Apple (have you seen the latest Web App Store from Google – exact copy of iTunes online, touch mouse from m$ … those are only today)

      they hope that they can survive just by hanging together but slowly and surely they’ll follow Palm on that final spiraling :)

    • GotWake

      GotWake 5:47 pm on August 18, 2010 640 days ago

      I agree, they are betting that this will play out like the early days of Microsoft vs Apple. All they need to do is gain the lion’s share of the market and they will be kings. It’s rather amusing. The way the competitors (I use the term loosely) talk, Apple is nothing to them. But, their actions speak volumes. Microsoft’s Mac vs PC comparison, Dell’s Apples to Apples, Sony’s PSP to iPhone. It’s just freakin crazy. All they are doing is validating in people’s minds that Apple is the brand to beat.

    • Nicu

      Nicu 6:21 pm on August 18, 2010 640 days ago

    • rastard

      rastard 1:16 am on August 19, 2010 640 days ago

      I think you’re all getting riled up by a “journalist” who doesn’t have a clue. From everything I’ve read about Chrome OS, I seriously doubt the article’s accuracy. Chrome OS is a browser-based OS that only runs webapps — and doesn’t run standalone or downloadable apps the way that the iPhone or Android do (or that Macs or PCs do). So if there is a Chrome OS tablet (no matter how good or bad it might be), it’s just a device that runs a browser — it’s really not an iPad competitor.

      “my guess is that the device could be based on NVidia’s Tegra 2 platform and sport a 1280×720 multitouch display, 2GB of RAM, minimum 32GB SSD, WiFi/Bluetooth/LTE connectivity, GPS, webcam, and possibly expandable storage via a multi-card reader.”

      A browser-based OS wouldn’t really need a 32GB SSD or expandable storage — since everything resides in “the cloud”. For that matter, I’m not really sure why it would need a multitouch display either. So color me skeptical.

      If a tablet actually is coming out from Google, it would make far more sense for it to be one running Android (and if I recall correctly, several have already been announced, and there’s already one on the market — so that wouldn’t be new news).

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    RattyUK

    RattyUK 10:42 am on August 11, 2010 - 647 days ago

    I’m not going to provide a link but there is a terrible piece up at Newser by the boss of the little web site (who looks like DR EVIL in his photo) he has done a hit piece on Jobs:

    After pussyfooting around the point he finally states:

    “Here it is: Many, many, many people who pride themselves on a hard and shrewd level of realism believe that Steve Jobs is a goner. They believe that after treatments and transplants and the ministrations of spin doctors, he‚Äôs a goner still.”

     
    • conshmillo

      conshmillo 1:19 pm on August 11, 2010 647 days ago

      That reminds me the old nasty times at Google Finance when Jobs was recovering from liver transplant. Some people wrote the nastiest stuff. In in traditional Chinese medicine, liver is linked to stress, anger and such. No doubt in my mind that stress is a big culprit here. I am talking from my own experience about liver troubles. He will have to take it easier. And I think he already delegates a lot more stuff to others. As for that article above, some people do not realize we are all goners :-) And then there is possibility of such a thing as karma. Writer of that article could be gone before Jobs is. Or not. Jobs looks alright to me.

      I don’t think this pullback has anything to do with Jobs or Apple for that matter. Although that iPhone 4 antenna FUD month ago did it’s work. There was a quite negative talk about economy for a while in general. Some investors are just taking money out of the market. Technicals are showing pullbacks on all indexes I watch (including Shanghai and London). On daily charts we had bearish cross on MACD on them. This negative bias will stay with us for a while. We’ll see some bursts upwards in middle of it but my impression for next few weeks is that there will be negative bias.

    • nolavabo

      nolavabo 3:43 pm on August 13, 2010 645 days ago

      Agreed. SPX 960 here we come. If that support fails, SPX 825.

  • RattyUK

    RattyUK 8:47 am on July 27, 2010 - 662 days ago

    New iMacs:

    http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/100727/sf41214.html?.v=1

    New Mac Pros

    http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/100727/sf41216.html?.v=1

    New 27inch Display

    http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/100727/sf41217.html?.v=1

     
  • RattyUK

    RattyUK 1:36 pm on July 20, 2010 - 669 days ago

    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq310/

    Apple’s conference call webcast discussing Q3 Р2010 financial results will begin at 2:00pm PT/5:00pm ET on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.

    Please note that comments made during this call may include forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. For more information on the factors that could influence results, please refer to Apple’s SEC filings.

     
  • 1
    RattyUK

    RattyUK 9:10 am on June 28, 2010 - 691 days ago

    CUPERTINO, Calif., June 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple¬Æ today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone¬Æ 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24. The new iPhone 4 features FaceTime¬Æ, which makes video calling as easy as one tap, and Apple’s new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in stunning text, images and video.
    “This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply.”
    iPhone 4 also features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD 720p video recording, Apple’s A4 processor, a 3-axis gyro and up to 40 percent longer talk time‚Äîin a beautiful all-new design of glass and stainless steel that is the thinnest smartphone in the world.
    iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, the newest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, which features Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform.

     
    • conshmillo

      conshmillo 2:37 pm on June 28, 2010 691 days ago

      iPhone 4 “death grip” must be extremely popular. I am so sick and tired of reading in all non Apple geek periodicals about exaggerated to the extreme “problems” with iPhone. It tells me only one thing. Competition is freaking out again.

  • 1
    RattyUK

    RattyUK 1:29 pm on June 22, 2010 - 697 days ago

    1 tablet every 2-3 seconds – seems to be accelerating – shame the analysts back in Jan had no idea:
    Analyst, Unit sales 2010 (millions)
    Brian Marshall, Broadpoint AmTech, 7.0
    David Bailey, Goldman Sachs 6.2
    Kathryn Huberty, Morgan Stanley 6.0
    Shaw Wu, Kauffman Bros. 5.0
    Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray 3.5
    Ben Reitzes, Barclay’s Capital 2.9
    Keith Bachman, BMO Capital 2.5
    Jeff Fidacaro, Susquehanna 2.1
    Chris Whitmore, Deutsche Bank 2.0
    Bill Shope, Credit Suisse 1.8
    Scott Craig, Merrill Lynch 1.2
    Peter Misek, Canaccord Adams 1.2
    Doug Reid, Thomas Weisel 1.1
    Yair Reiner, Oppenheimer 1.1

     
    • Nicu

      Nicu 1:45 pm on June 22, 2010 697 days ago

      it’s their job to have no idea, they do not provide any value, just bogus background noise; we should just take advantage every 3 months (earnings) that they provide such a bad picture of Apple and there are enough people to gobble up their garbage :)

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