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AppleSoft: No, It Was Not Different This Time
Back in late August, we presented a chart whose foresight and accuracy turned out to be so spot on, it scared even us. We asked: "With Apple overtaking Microsoft's 'peak-market-cap' and becoming the most 'valuable' company ever traded, we thought a reflection on what humans (as opposed to machines programmed by humans) did the last time a world-changing technology company went ubiquitous. Comparing AAPL's last few years to the run-up in MSFT's peak in 1999..." Or, in other words, "is it different this time?"
This is the chart we presented five months ago:
Turns out, the answer is, No. It was not different this time. It never is.
This, despite what a certain Jim Cramer said two weeks later, just as the stock hit its all time high:
"Oh, for heaven's sake, stop trading Apple and start owning it... Is this an average stock with average growth? No, it is among the greatest wealth creators in the world with a vastly superior growth-and-balance sheet. Do you want to flit in and out of Apple to catch the latest review or day's sale? Or do you want to own a stock that's just too cheap not be owned, one that money managers all over the country have to own to show that they are in the game or to beat the game going into the fourth quarter. I think owning it has it all over trading it. Nothing I heard yesterday changes my mind."
Here is the same chart as above, updated for what has transpired since:
The chart above also means that there is much more gravity to come for this particular fruit.
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history repeats because the passions of man never change.. bitchez.
What we build collectively is described by our nature - like termites building mounds of mud.
Whatever Jim Cramer says, simply do the opposite. Obvi.
I use the same approach when the vatican speaks.
Just watch what happens when the Samsung Galaxy IV comes out in a few months.
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They say you shouldn't commit suicide.
Hmmm, wonder what that says about the Egyptians SR? Did we "pinacle" it back that long ago?
Apple seems to be a harbinger for the fall of many things. Apple shoudl die. It's been a social/societal disaster. THE iPod made morons of people. Inward looking morons to boot.
As for the rest, scary what this Stok's fall portends.
I say $100 or less in 6 months or less.
I hope Steve is slow roasting on an eternal flame.
Maybe there is no pinnacle; maybe it's all just ridges and valleys, value in metaphor only.
Long time no see.
I've been a "Watcher" lately. Interesting perspective as a non-commenter. :-)
In an MIS class in 1989 we were required to contrast and compare Apple and IBM, and to project which we thought would live and which would die. I chose IBM to live, and Apple to die. One of my principle reasons was - at the time, Apple's "management" didn't understand the company or the culture they were "managing." I said, "unless Apple does something radical about their bad management, they're dead within 5 years."
As we all know, shortly after that paper, Apple brought Steve Jobs back home and, as they say, the rest is history.
Now we see a parallel situation. Apple's management is once again "not with the program", but this time there will be no bringing back Mr Jobs. For all its size, Apple has always been a niche company. As it is said, "the main business of business is business" and without translation programs and inefficient programs, Apple just doesn't DO "business." Apple computers are still essentially hippie toys and graphics machines. Had they tossed out their closed architecture when they brought Mr Jobs back they might now be a whole different company - and might have a chance at long term survival. But they didn't, so they aren't.
The only saving grace for Apple is, as I said in 1989, "it takes a long time for a $5 billion (then) corp to go down the drain." Looks like Apple is once again circling the strainer.
Apple is a great company. I'm sure in the future continue to surprise us with more and better products. The market is correcting the price of this stock. We'll see it starts to rise again.
What goes up must come down!
i told that to my wife last night
What we need is for Tilson to get in on the fray in some desperate bullish last stand, then AAPL will go really rotten!
Unsustainable demand gets really annoying.
A certain inevitability to that in the supply side Jaggernaut whose death throes we are currently witnessing.
And they just started work on their brand new super-lair too. A shame, really. In the interest of "saving face", I bet they do not stop construction, and squander the money instead of investing in R&D to develop new tech.
Tyler must have William Tell manning the Bloomberg.
So did I.
AAPL don't fawl faw.
now do an earnings comparison overlapping
From November 26, 2012
I sold at $586 and bought back in at 510 and 486, apple crushed google last year. Apple is going to beat earnings. Glad your following what I've been saying though. Did you buy HTWR, NUS, OAS, SWHC etc on my recommendations?
Oh, and assuming you don't believe the above exit I took, you are laughing your ass off being down 1%?? I'm down a 0.5% on my latest trade. But long term holder since 220. LMFAO
The pin to 500 was predictable and well executed. Probably up from here.
Oh wait, I mean, apple is going to $100!!! Next week!!!!!!! March $10!! It's over, Jim Cramer's daughter doesn't even like aapl anymore!!!!
Oh and speaking of goog anyone see this funny tidbit?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/18/us-google-estimates-idUSBRE90H...
500.00 close, nailed it!
Don't you know, this time is different!
Far too many people (sheep), are far too easily led.
There is only one winner folks, and it certainly aint you or I.
Just those well informed... Shorted the stock around $660 after the peak, having looked back since... Plus added a put at 500...
Iphone 10 with 10 rows of icons will price new at 84 bucks.
.. seasonally, hedonically row-inflation adjusted price?
'.. seasonally, hedonically row-inflation adjusted price?'
Row, row, row your boat- oh too late. This is the Titanic.
One bubble burst, now on to Japan, Europe, TBTF, UK and finally USA...
What Apple needs is an even larger phone and a smaller mini They can converge the two and call it the iPad Micro.
If they build a device small enough, maybe it could be the iTampon.
Set the phone on vibrate and it becomes a multi-functional device....I think we are on to something Rex.
OMG
But hey, why the hell not? I'll start the prior patent search.
LOl..
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Done.
Taken.
I know, you'd think this was a joke but ... while it is, obviously someone thought of it first.
Now try to replace THAT with "hedonic adjustment", Bernanke.
iVibrator.
iVibrate.
Perfect gift for the wife.
I got it.
Customized vibrator attachments programmable to which ever level of vibration is desired.
Although video and pics would be nice to add, AAPL has camera / video issues as well as navigation issues.
So, we will have to call Samsung on this one i think.
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Tyler, do you ever scare yourself when you're so right?
So is the scale of absolutle price difference between the two stocks another alternative inflation measure?
peAce
Goes to show the nifty things you can do with graphs if you scale, stretch and shift them properly. Anything is possible!
Let me guess...you bought above $700 and you just know it's going to come back.
Not really, though I wouldn't mind betting that before you know it, AAPL will be back above $600 after earnings.
Fascinating how negative sentiment towards AAPL is so strong among ZeroHedgers that they suddenly fail to recognize the ridiculously obvious manipulation going on with this particular stock.
Then you say BUY BUY BUY
I have no personal interest in AAPL stock, just stating my observations. Somehow it appears to be hard for some to separate the two things when AAPL is involved.
I bought at $510 and backed up the truck at $486 (already own in the low 2's). ZH thinks it's going to $300 according to this, Apple will have $300B in cash before it gets to a stock price of $300.
I won't be surprised to see Apple above 600 again but it will be very temporary on short covering as sentiment gets too negative. The bottom line is Apple is old news and they no longer have the best phone on the market. If they don't make a big splash into tv world Apple is done as a driving force.Their stock will be a trading vehicle just like Mr. Softy.
AAPL has been a trading vehicle for years since the company started to regain relevance. I fail to see how anyone could even consider comparing MSFT stock performance to AAPL to infer anything about its future direction. Especially not if the assumption is that it will go down in the long term. MSFT has basically been locked in the same trading range near its all-time highs for the past 10+ years.
A trading stock is a stock that finds it's range and stays there. Microsoft like Apple was a great investment at one point in time so you held on to it. Once the momo was gone you got out and trade the range. Microsoft between $25 and $35 is a great trade. Anything beyond that is dead money. Apple will play out the same way.
AAPL bears should ask themselves why the price discovery mechanism is broken in every "market" and functional only when applicable to AAPL. Why the apparent dichotomy? It reeks of manipulation, imo. APPL soars past 1000 on one last great blow-off top before this "market" finally gives it up.
Prices are fractal, but it's not like Tyler is comparing a one-day MSFT graph to 5-year AAPL.
I remember when AAPL was the shit and then they released the "Lisa" and then kicked Steve Jobs out and then Mr. Softee dominated tech throughout the 90's and then AAPL hired Steve Jobs backed and....anyway, Steve Jobs is gone now, so you should either sell whatever AAPL stock you may still own or just not buy it if you don't have it.
Have some faith. Just like Jesus, Jobs will be resurrected for 3 trading sessions and AAPL will soar.
Who's a bigger putz - Cramer or Weisenthal?
with all defference to douchebag Cramer, Weisenthal is the greatest loser.
Also think Businessinsider is a prime portal or disinformation and propaganda...site is one of the worst I've read but actually important to read their headlines as it appears they are dissemenating the downfield propaganda to shape conversations.
NEWSWIRE: Panicking Apple Board Of Directors Attempt To Restart Steve Jobs
AAPL was great stock to starting owning in 2004. That's when AAPL was the exciting new thing. Jim Cramer was like 9 years too late.
Sounds to me like Jim Cramer timed it to perfection.
I left AAPL when Steve did. It's now too risky without him at the helm. Plus, I never look profits in the face and take them for granted.
I'm a Cheap Bastard.
Microsoft- a bitched-up OS designed to make DOS look like Apple.
Apple- A bitched up business plan designed to operate like Microsoft.
No wonder they look alike.
Apple- A bitched up business plan designed to operate like Microsoft.
I'm no Apple fanboi, but compared to MS's hardware offerings, they look like super-geniuses.
Brilliant inverse juxta-positional observation there mess.
I admit, I'm somewhat suprised the various market indices haven't followed AAPL's performance a bit better.
"after shorting this bitch to split adjusted 5,000 a share we finally covered at a split adjusted 2500 for a mere paper loss of 100 billion with potential for infinity losses." give it up Tylers Durden. This company was left for dead...Steve Jobs save it that Apple gang turned it into a wealth machine not even he believed in. (All his holdings were in that dog Disney.) hurray for Team Apple. All credit goes to them and the rest of the West Coast Digitati. While the rest just count their money at someone else's expense Apple shows the way of true wealth creation...through hard work and "imagineering." we haven't heard the last of Team Apple nor of the West Coast style that the world first heard in music back in the sixties. "California deamin'" on such a dreary query.
At Apple the flavor of the weak is always "self-delusion".
Didn't one of the Mamas and the Papas die of a drug OD? Like I said above... "Apple computers are still essentially hippie toys and graphics machines.”
Think it was a grilled ham and cheese OD.
hyperinflation will take it to the moon.
hyperinflation will take it to the moon.
Yep. Price up, value flagging... fast.
I would say that it has to be a little bit different this time because Apple is nowhere near as shitty as Microsoft in terms of quality.
Ya... Apple is worse ...
the one good thing it has is that OS X is Linux.
Cramer took up acting when he couldn't make it as a trader.
Atari,Commodore,Coleco,Sinclair,Tandy,Texas Instruments(TI),TRS and Apple have the same business model.
There are a bunch of options about to expire at midnight tonight - if they expire under 500 bucks a lot of banks and hedgies make a SERIOUS amount of money.
Then on Monday futures they can pump again.
AppleSoft BASIC > Integer BASIC
CALL -151 BITCHEZ!
MSFT - Stock peaks, Gates steps down and the stock heads south.
APPL - Stock peaks, Jobs dies and the stock heads south.
The departure of the iconic CEO is a winning short strategy over the long term (also see C, GE)
The lesson of history has shown again and again people don't learn from history.
All trends end. Although, CrabApple could be forming a downside wedge over the last few months for a possible retest of $600. All super enterprises stagnate eventually as competition catches up. For many of the major biggies of yesteryear, their stock prices stagnate and your returns are made by dividend increases. Remember when they projected Qualcom to about $2,000, I think it was back in the late 1990s? Still hoping on that one. Apple may yet hit $1,000 or more, but it will be a limited event.
Chart ties up with a sub $300 target I have technically..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bOfGeRK5Tw
I'm sorry but there is one huge difference.
MSFT at its peak had a 88 P/E. AAPL had about a 15 P/E, which given the amount of cash it has was not high.
I'm sorry, but the fundamentals don't justify the current price. Maybe it isn't a high growth stock anymore, but given its P/E and cash its price is too low.
Amateurish.
Any particular reason why youre using a liner chart instead of a logarithmic chart (besides the obvious reason?)
doesn't every single stock chart in the history of markets track this arc at some point in time?
#winning
the msft vs aapl chart is priceless, wish I'd done it.
aapl 2013 jan long-term curves 01 goldpricemodel
aapl 2013 jan long-term curves 02 goldpricemodel - not as good but still useful
if an 'american' drops aapl's too close to the road, will polishes other terds happening at such capitalismic roadside kiosks ?
- 'anamerican'