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Apple Investors Nix the VIX
Apple is in a very nice position to deflect the wrath that has succumbed so many other companies. And why is that? Well it comes down to the magic triad; lots of cash, zero debt, and growing demand for its products. The only thing Apple doesn’t have going for it is dividends. But Apple more [...]
26Oct2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
Apple Earnings Strategies
Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, a notoriously bullish Apple analyst, appeared on CNBC’s Fast Money today, he thinks Apple will report strong Q4 earnings after the close tomorrow. Munster said that the streets expectations are way too low. He cited NPD data that suggests that Apple sold approximately 11 million iPods versus the Street consensus [...] 21Oct2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
Rumors, Apple Notebook Event October 14
Apple announced an invitation-only event at the company’s Town Hall in Cupertino, for October 14th. You guessed it, that’s a Tuesday! Here’s the event invitation showing what appears to be a metallic Mac notebook.
The big news expected from this event is new pricing, with lower-end models starting at $799, and a new manufacturing process where [...]
Apple Tuesday Let’s Rock Prediction and Poll
So according to Kevin Rose of Digg, the Apple event next Tuesday will be all about iTunes 8 and new iPods, specifically a new Nano-like iPod. It will be in a retro form, longer and thinner like the original Nanos. That’s great, but I don’t see how that advances the Touch interface. Here’s a question, [...]
4Sep2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
Apple Gets Nice Pop from Upgrade, Cisco while Nasdaq Fills Gap
Well there’s something you don’t see too often, at least as of late. And what’s that you may ask? How about Apple making strong moves in two consecutive sessions? Sweet! Was it Cisco’s CEO John Chambers talking up the future, was it the UBS Apple sort of upgrade, or was it the “hold the rates, [...]
6Aug2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Administers Executive Justice over MobileMe Blunder
The following is a reprint from Applelot.org, with permission from the author, TechStock200. Just for the record, I never had problem with MobileMe, it worked from the start, but I feel for those that did, it was very un-Apple like. I’m very glad that SJ has taken this decisive action. Way to go Steve! Here’s [...]
5Aug2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
3G iPhone Case Cracked in Under 24 Hours, Back to the Apple Store
After my less than perfect Apple Store buying experience yesterday, I thought I was free and clear to enjoy my new 3G iPhone. Well, the pleasure lasted almost 16 hours. But it looks like I’ll be going back to the Apple Store with a cracked 3G iPhone.
I got up early this morning with the wife [...]
AT&T Worms in Apple iPhone Buying Experience
I bought a 3G iPhone yesterday (August 1) as an upgrade to my 1st gen iPhone. I gave the old boy to my younger daughter, now both my girls have iPhone sidearms. I bought a white 16 GB model, partly because everyone else wants the black and I’m a contrarian, partly because it won’t show [...]
2Aug2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
Apple Replenished 3G iPhone Supply Chain, Ramping up iMacs, Laptops Too
I just came across a website called Top Muffin that taps into official Apple information through a JSON feed. It shows the current availability of 3G iPhones in all of Apple’s stores. Awesome!! Looks like Apple has replenished the supply chain. From the current availability report the 16 GB Black is the toughest to keep in [...]
26Jul2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
Survey: Apple’s New Low Margin Product
Apple has whetted everyone’s appetite with the notion of a new product later this year. The kicker is that it will be low margin, so one has to assume that it will be a high volume product like an iPod, or a low cost PC that will compete with HP and Dell.
The last major release [...]
Fed Lights Fuse Apple, Market Explode
After last night’s earnings catastrophes among Apple (AAPL), Sandisk (SNDK), Texas Instruments (TXN), American Express (AXP) and others, all seemed lost in the market. It started an after hours chain reaction, stock after stock breaking down. What would become of all the good work leading up to this point? I mean we had good market internals, Oil was [...]
22Jul2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
Apple Price Manipulation, but Who and Why?
Today’s price action on AAPL has many investors wondering what’s going on? You have a downgrade of RIMM, broad support across the market in today’s advance on all indices, yet AAPL is lagging. You have RIMM up 3% and AAPL up only .73% on equal volume at the time of this post of 15 million [...]
16Jul2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
iPhone 3G Biggest Gadget Release in History, or Banks Tank?
Which is a bigger story, the biggest consumer electronic release in history, or the banking system on the verge of a total collapse? Let’s start with the bad news and then end on an up-note, shall we?
This past weekend the United States Government went on an all out PR campaign to talk up the economy. [...]
Apple Says 1 Million 3G iPhones, Munster Got it Wrong?
Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, although one of our favorite Apple analysts, plain out got it wrong! Apple has an official press release stating that they sold 1 million iPhones, not 425K as he reported.
Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO was quoted saying, “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend. It took 74 days to sell the first [...]
You Must Upgrade to iTunes 7.7 and iPhone 2.0 Now!
Stop! Before reading on, If you have an iPhone and haven’t upgrade your iTunes to 7.7 yet, do it now! I’ll wait… Ok, now dock your iPhone and check for updates. Download and install 2.0. Trust me, once you do, your iPhone will NEVER be the same!!
I updated my iTunes to version 7.7 on Thursday (July [...]
Kiwis First in Line for 3G iPhone will Pay Deeply Down Under
Vodafone, New Zealand’s biggest mobile-phone operator, will start selling the 3G iPhone at 12.01 am Friday morning. That’s 8 am on Thursday (Jully 10) here on the east coast of the United States. Who will be the first Kiwi in the world to buy the much ballyhooed Apple product? Well it looks like a 22-year old student Jonny [...]
10Jul2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
iPhone 3G Review, New 2.0 Firmware is Great!
If you’re a current iPhone owner, you’re going to get a lot of bang for the buck with the new iPhone 2.0 operating system. But is it worth upgrading to the new iPhone 3G? Well, that depends on your personal situation, for example will you be using the iPhone in an area where 3G is [...]
9Jul2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
Apple Positioned to Take Olympic Gold
By the end of the summer of 2008 Apple will be in position to grab gold in the Desktop and the Mid to Hi-end Cellphone events. It’s all coming together for Apple, from the economic cycle to the Beijing Olympics. And I’m going to explain how it might play out, but first there’s a bitter pill that must be swallowed.
28Jun2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
Apple Stalled, Lifted by Morgan Stanley
Apple took it on the chin early in the session, dragged down by the continued fallout from the sub-prime lending crisis. It’s ironic that the very company that raised guidance on Apple, was also one of the catalyst for the market’s decline, as Morgan Stanley (MS) posted a 2nd-quarter profit drop of 61 percent. On the [...]
18Jun2008 | Zach Bass | Comments | Continued
