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Maybe Apple is really going to go to the "dark side". Worra, worra :)

Do you think Apple was seeking federal welfare to build solar panels or windmills someplace?

"Smoke 'em if you got 'em boys"

clambo says

There will be some positive news and AAPL will go up $150 in a week.

crazy as it sounds that may well be the case... will see!!

Famous last words

"Man the Lifeboats"
"It's just a fleshwound."
"Just got the wind knocked out of me"
"My god it's full of stars"
"It can't be a bad stock, it's owned by so many Mutual Funds."
"I'm just dollar cost averaging by buying the dips"

My mother used to say "Laugh, clown, laugh."
Those who buy AAPL today are going to make the easiest 30% by Christmas in their lives.
It's almost funny. Those guys who were bummed out that AAPL went up so fast while they sat on the sidelines wished that it would dip so they could buy it. They are buying AAPL now.
There are some people evidently selling AAPL to have cash to buy some Facebook. Now, that's something I would never do myself.
You guys need to get out of provincial California. Go get on a plane to Paris. Go later on to Hong Kong. Check out Beijing and Shanghai. Then down to OZ. Back to N. America hit Mexico. Back to NYC, up to Quebec.
You will see Apple iPhones, Macbooks, iPads, everywhere, and not just in the airport lounges.
I like the AAPL dip because it will have a "slingshot effect" and bam! this baby is gonna be $750 by or after Christmas.
Of course, I could also be wrong ;)

Clambo,

"There are some people evidently selling AAPL to have cash to buy some Facebook. "

You really don't know that. What is this based on? Apple is going down because it went up too fast. With these types of run ups most of the gains are given back to test the support levels, so I would not be surprised to see Apple in low to mid 400s. Note, I am not betting on it, but usually it happens.

clambo says

I like the AAPL dip because it will have a "slingshot effect" and bam! this baby is gonna be $750 by or after Christmas.
Of course, I could also be wrong ;)

Haha, this is exactly my train of thought with a lot of stocks...any why I stay out of them! There's always that nagging feeling of, "BUT I would be wrong" and I end up not gambling with stocks. Chances are that you are right about Apple though...their P/E is conservative, the iPhone 5 is coming soon and they have CASH in the bank. I can't really figure out why their stock is tanking right now...any insights? I don't buy the "dumping AAPL for FB" claim. Anyone that is holding AAPL has to see how volatile FB is going to be and I would think that they would be smart enough to stay way for the first few months.

treatment is correct, it's just something I read somewhere about guys "raising cash to buy facebook." I have really zero idea nor does it matter who is selling. Obviously someone's selling it ;)

Since I have not sold any mutual fund that I liked but rather some I thought stunk, I won't sell AAPL until the company starts to stink. I can't imagine when that time will come though.

I can of course be 100% wrong. Photos of Cook engaging in sex with a martian underage transvestite, an asteroid may hit Cupertino, flesh eating bacteria can infect the salmon scrape in their sushi rolls at the cafeteria, the iPads may be made with radioactive aluminum, the guy at the Chinese recycling plant dropped in the cobalt from a dentist x-ray in the batch, all sorts of things can and may happen.

But, the money was languishing and I was succumbing to the greed of wanting to see my balance shoot up more quickly than the gradual up from mutual funds in stocks and bonds.

I may succumb again tomorrow.

It's funny, I surfed and scuba dive where there have been numerous great white attacks and yet what scares me is my investment going negative for several weeks?

I would take Apple over 100 facebooks however.

So, will AAPL soar now that FB didn't provide the stock-gamblers the instant riches that they sought? Will they flock back to AAPL? Did they actually leave AAPL shares for FB? I am still having a hard time figuring out why it tanked so hard in the last week.

Anyone want to handicap Apple's Photo Stream sharing initiative. Is the revolutionary, evolutionary, or barely keeping up with the competition? Instagram built an interesting business with (initially) an iOS only app. Apple is also talking about video sharing as well through iCloud. Time to buy grandma an iPad or AppleTV?

I bet Apple will imitate the usefulness of facebook/instagram photo sharing functionality if it is worthwhile.
Apple did imitate others on their way to making gazillions.
I recall that Jobs liked the way Dell sold stuff with their website, so he decided Apple.com would be a good site to buy stuff.
He also liked those GAP stores and wanted to imitate them with the Apple store.
I imagine iCloud will copy in some ways Dropbox/sugarsync, etc.
So, the photo sharing stuff will probably be inevitable.
Who knows, Apple may also end up making an "iBook" facebook parallel.
There isn't anything they can't do if they want to, they have the money and resources to.
I'm just hoping to not see Zukerberg's face so much anymore.
It is a mystery why Apple went down last week, but I believe that it just how these things go, the overall market went down, and so did Apple.
However, when you find a $20 on the sidewalk, you don't ask or look around too much, you just pick it up.

EBGuy says

Is the revolutionary, evolutionary, or barely keeping up with the competition?

family pictures dont get much public interest or earn higher market value!

EBGuy says

Is the revolutionary, evolutionary, or barely keeping up with the competition?

family pictures dont get much public interest or earn higher market value!

clambo says

I'm just hoping to not see Zukerberg's face so much anymore.

the media has a love affair with FB.. always have!

Apple's photostream can chip away at facebook, at no cost to Apple but to facebooks detriment.

clambo says

Apple is selling increasing numbers of ALL of the products it makes

And people are running out of credit to buy this crap that goes obsolete in a year with.

And with the rapist wireless loser companies like Veriscum, Sprunt and AT&Trash ripping off people with ever decreasing voice quality and massive fine for using the internet for anything, I cant see this craze continuing. Its insane. Family phone bills these days are bloody oppressive. Joke. The infrastructure is old and mangy, yet, they charge more and more for this old junk getting more and more oversubscribed by the day.

Joke. The all you can eat internet revolutionized the world, and the oligarchs and rapists want to put a toll booth and a NKVD censor in front of this internet in the wireless world. What a joke and a sad regression. Going backwards and costing more and more of your daily bread.

Foxconn chairman: we're going to build Apple's television

http://www.osnews.com/story/25939/Foxconn_chairman_we_re_going_to_build_Apple_s_television

If it drops below $500 I'm backing up the truck at the dock.

thomas.wong1986 says

Foxconn chairman: we're going to build Apple's television

Television? What is that? Must be a new product !

thomas.wong1986 says

EBGuy says

family pictures dont get much public interest or earn higher market value!

But a platform for disruptive media content creation and distribution might. Or at the very least help them maintain margins. YMMV...

clambo says

It just wouldn't look right to pull out a plastic Korean phone from your French $2000+ handbag, would it?

I guess it wouldnt matter either way, since Apple uses Samsung parts.

EBGuy says

But a platform for disruptive media content creation and distribution might.

Pictures of anyones grand-ma or last years summer vacation were never that interesting.

disruptive.. ? must be this...

Irreconcilable Claim: Facebook Causes 1 in 5 divorce...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703597804576194563288753204.html