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The Fate of The Tech Bubble Is In The Hands Of Just One Company

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With the Nasdaq sitting at new highs having finally eclipsed the previous record of 5,048 set in March of 2000 and with consumers not-so-eagerly awaiting their chance to get in on the supposed wave of the wearables future by purchasing their very own Apple Watch, we learn that the fate of the tech bubble now rests entirely on the shoulders of Tim Cook because as FactSet notes, "blended Q1 Y/Y EPS growth for the Information Technology sector is 0.7% [but] excluding Apple, the blended earnings growth rate for the sector would fall to -5.1%.”

That rather disconcerting statistic makes this the scariest chart in the world for tech investors:

And as it turns out, it's not just the tech space. Y/Y EPS growth for the entire S&P 500 is expected to come in at -2.8% — excluding Apple knocks more than a full percentage point off the already negative results: "The blended earnings decline for the entire S&P 500 is -2.8%. Excluding Apple, the blended earnings decline for the S&P 500 would increase to -3.9%."

In other words, the market better hope there are a lot of these people out there:  


 

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Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:33 | 6028024 MonetaryApostate
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But can they create a resume from a phone?  (That's where phones are an absolute fail... Low or NO Productivity)

 

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 11:18 | 6029207 sun tzu
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Smartphones are a convenience and a toy. Can you really watch a movie or do any work on them other than reply to emails?

I'm 40 and haven't worn a watch in 20 years. 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:46 | 6027217 Kreditanstalt
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It's all about FLOW, not STOCK...

Stockholders and buyers want CASH FLOW, YIELD...however infinitesimally small it may be...   They couldn't care less whether the company's business model is sustainable, or even how many actual sales of The Watch occur...

ALL ABOUT YIELD.  They're DESPERATE.

 

But...somewhere, somehow...some government, company or business model will eventually, unavoidably, incontestably and for-all-to-see actually GO BANKRUPT and OUT OF BUSINESS.

Extend-and-pretend will fail, and the wheels will fall off...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:49 | 6027252 Stoploss
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The 40 year old sun dial out by the pool is working flawlessly...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 19:05 | 6028098 Miffed Microbio...
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Mine too. I wish I could teach it to do daylight savings time tho.

Miffed;-)

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 23:42 | 6028666 OldPhart
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Wind and desert heat made my dial spin with a little effort.  So I adjust it to DST, then spin it back for regular time.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 08:30 | 6028990 MonetaryApostate
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Simply move the sundial, duh...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 19:34 | 6028168 1 over Infinity
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Not true. They are getting into digital currency and cloud based systems.

I would not dismiss them just yet, besides they make a computer that does not reboot on you

and cause you to loose your work.

 

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 00:02 | 6028692 FutureShock
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ummmm Apple tv?  They changed the music industry why not tv.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 04:35 | 6028863 DavidC
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localsavage,
Agreed (and by all accounts a number of other people agree too by the number of up votes you have).

I work in a development department where Apples are used a lot for design work. I haven't spoken with everyone but those I have asked have expressed either NO interest in the iWatch (sic) or very muted interest.

DavidC

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:18 | 6027061 Kirk2NCC1701
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And that company is... Goldman_Apple?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:40 | 6027200 Equality 7-25-1
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Federal Computer Board

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:31 | 6027155 Model T
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Stawk market so high; that wealth effect gone make everbuddy rich, any minute now; yessir. It gonna be wunnerful.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:39 | 6027195 starman
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I'm waiting for IDICK! In black and white.

Chinese markets to get much smaller versions.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:48 | 6026903 F0ster
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So the Apple Watch determines the fate of the world?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:50 | 6026916 813kml
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As was prophesied by L. Ron Hubbard.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:59 | 6026955 max2205
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4 horseman is now one....for earnings support

Appl goog amzn ect for price support.

Over and out.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:51 | 6026917 pods
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But dude, you can write emails with it!  

At least that's what I heard.

If I can find me a Member's Only jacket I might start talking to my watch.

pods

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:05 | 6026991 Groundhog Day
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hhmmm, i need to send an email...oohh i know instead of using my phone which is easier i'll use my watch

hhmmm, i nned to know what time it is, oohh i know i'll use my watch instead of looking at phone

hhmmm, i wonder how many steps i took today, oohh i know i'll look at my watch instead of looking at my phone.

 

yea its a neccesity

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:06 | 6026999 Winston Churchill
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Start talking to your watch and its liable to be a straight jacket.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:09 | 6027013 knukles
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And all this time all I ever wanted to be was Dick Tracey.
PS Seen any new pics of His Majesty?  Gots the worm, the skinnies?  Conspiracy Theorists wannakno

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:39 | 6027194 Arnold
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HIV positive, by the latest ether radiations.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:55 | 6028075 MonetaryApostate
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MAYBE they weren't actually designed for Citizens, if you catch my drift?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:51 | 6026918 youngman
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pretty disgusting that this is the new USA .....a toy manufacturer is number one.....

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 08:31 | 6028992 MonetaryApostate
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You cannot guage the stupidity of consumers, it's beyond infinite truly...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:51 | 6026920 Space Animatoltipap
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Apple, the Big Apple, the Forbidden Apple. Indeed, we're lost.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:52 | 6026921 Space Animatoltipap
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Apple, the Big Apple, the Forbidden Apple. Indeed, we're lost.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:53 | 6026929 Budnacho
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What, hope there are a metric-shitton of doofuses with spendable cash?....Im sure Kanye already has one for each appendage for each day....there...problem solved...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:53 | 6026930 praps
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But hockey stick recovery in earnings in 2016.  Surely??

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:54 | 6026934 Osmium
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Laugh now, but these APPL lovers with their new watches will be so much more productive that....

Yeah right, they will probably just play games and FB untill the battery dies.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:03 | 6026978 PleasedToMeatYou
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This is bullish. 

Now you can be detained, ticketed, and possibly arrested for looking at your watch while driving.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:13 | 6027007 Atomizer
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Wait until the iWallet gets hacked. It won't be me, but you'll have been forwarned. 

Tim Cook will be getting it up the ass once HQ gives him the bad news via Facetime video stream. He may even cough up his red gag mouth ball restraint. 

 

http://www.amazon.com/Outop-Breathable-Adjustable-Fetish-Restraint/dp/B0...

 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:58 | 6026938 Atomizer
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3 hours of battery life, tethered to your IPhone, and a magnifying glass to read the watch. What could go wrong? If I wanted to look important, would just start wearing my Rolex watch again. Prefer to look like a peasant, it's safer. 

/lol

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:57 | 6028080 MonetaryApostate
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MAYBE CrApple is being an assmonkey on purpose?  (Did anyone stop to think of that?)

Surely these tools can't be that fooking dense yes?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:57 | 6026949 Mike Honcho
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Apple and Real Estate only go up.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:04 | 6026972 Weaponized Innocense
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Wasn't APPLE suppose to be in the Dow index already? That's why I went ahead and nibbled on some TZA though I knew tech would try to pull this market higher before the crash.....
What happened with that?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:15 | 6027045 Atomizer
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Looks like you have been bamboozled. 

:p

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:08 | 6027008 Dr. Engali
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I wonder if that dude hangs out with the German dufus wearing a camera on his head from a previous post.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:26 | 6027119 pods
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At least the GoPro will take POV videos.  :D (Friend told me)

The watch, well, maybe it can be a stroke counter?

pods

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:08 | 6027009 firstdivision
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AMZN up ~15% on doubling down their losses compared to expectations.  WTF is going on here!

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:33 | 6027062 Dr. Engali
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"WTF is going on here!"

 

Nothing's changed. It's the same shit we've been watching for the past six years.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:16 | 6027373 Chuck Knoblauch
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Government bailout = government buying stocks

Real investors are gone.

Have been for a long time now.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:10 | 6027020 kchrisc
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There will be Apple stores in the FEMA camps.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

"In-App Purchase Macht Frei"

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 08:35 | 6028993 MonetaryApostate
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Unfortunately the only way you'll be able to access them is with a real evil digital implant, but don't be a fool DO NOT TAKE IT!!!

Tyranny is an Oppression, Liberty is Costly, but the whole world is BROKE!.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:21 | 6027034 Chuck Knoblauch
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The fates depend on whether Apple can become a bank?

Seriously?

Having TBTF status is important in the US.

It mean being part of club fed bailout.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:16 | 6027052 Temporalist
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I'm sure they are working on transplanting Jobs head onto a watch as we speak.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:18 | 6027059 Automatic Choke
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when, when, for gods sake WHEN?

i've been short so long i'm peering out of my zipper, and it is driving me nuts.

 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:21 | 6027079 CarpetShag
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When was the last time that any corporate financials mattered a tinker's toss for stock prices ?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:22 | 6027084 CHX
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Unless that apple hits escape velocity, gravity will win the day.

 

With grave greetings, Sir Isaac Newton

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:24 | 6027096 devo
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And they're down to selling watches.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:38 | 6027184 Equality 7-25-1
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Not just watches, overpriced, uncompetitive watches. Just like 1991, only this time a whole lot of people are strapped to them. MS is even positioned the same as they were then.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 08:36 | 6029000 MonetaryApostate
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Tech Companies thrive on innovation, the poorer innovation becomes, the poorer the company, and so it's probably time to start shorting them...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:24 | 6027098 CHX
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In other words, what the meaning of "IS" is, when the one orb is missing...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:24 | 6027099 SheepDog-One
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I plan on heavily mocking anyone I see with an iWatch.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 20:34 | 6027105 Fukushima Fricassee
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Cook can suck cocks right along with Obama , oh wait..................

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:29 | 6027142 neilhorn
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I'd buy one if they could get that new laser app to work with it. You know, the one that shoots down drones.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:29 | 6027144 Quantitative Seizing
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Do you guys hate everything?  You may not be a fan of apple or smartphones or the new generation of kids addicted to technology but until the big flash comes you'll need to get used to it.  The watch is going to be a big hit--bigger than apple is projecting it think.  it is going to make the uncool cool and it is going to drive more iphone sales too.

Apple has hired a tremendous number of very smart folks whose job it is to think up cool new crap.  And just think how much they know about all of us.  Should be easy to make stuff they know we will buy with all that intel.  We know They are working on a car project right now.

 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:36 | 6027181 Bioscale
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Forgot a /s tag?

Btw I saw similar Samsung product to iWatch a year ago, have met no single person wearing it. I was stunned that the thing was as expensive as the phone.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:23 | 6027409 Arius.
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the price depends on how much people are willing to pay for it ...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:10 | 6027615 cheech_wizard
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Those that are about to be fleeced salute you.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:08 | 6027607 cheech_wizard
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Wake me up when they actually come up with something that truly represents a paradigm shift. As an 18 year battle-scarred veteran during the server wars of Silicon Valley, the iWatch is bullshit. It is just like so many other geegaws and doodads that end up taking space in a drawer after a year or so of use.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:19 | 6027651 JamaicaJim
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Timmy? That you?

If so, go back to sucking dicks and time each one on your iCrapple

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:22 | 6027669 CarpetShag
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iPrick

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:51 | 6027713 silverer
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Get on the net.  Search: 'Problems with Yosemite OS".  You will clearly see how Apple has decided to stop focusing on its customers and is focusing like a diamond on maintaining revenue (and pushing out poorly QC'd code).  Your old buddy Steve Jobs, for any of his shortcomings, was a difficult act to follow.  I for one am greatful for his positive contributions.  But his genius went with him.  We now have a company that is simply 'churning' products.  My computer should exist to serve me, not the company that built it (I paid for it, it's mine now, isn't it?)

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:35 | 6027167 Equality 7-25-1
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<-- No, monolithic central control is best.

<-- We are one shaky behemoth away from wresting our freedom from the cabal.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 08:38 | 6029005 MonetaryApostate
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<--- You Cannot Win

<---What difference does it make?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:39 | 6027190 lasvegaspersona
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With nut case like Cook running the show, what could go wrong. Maybe he can get advice from his buddy Algore about how the universe works. As I understand their theory it goes like this: 'whatever we think is the way things are.'. Perhaps they can force the financial and monetary worlds to comply as they have so successfully done with 'climate change'....it is changing ya know...

What kind of ratonal person would use the expression 'settled science?'...Answer: a lawyer. they are used to working in systems that are developed and defined by men. They thibnk the natural world can be commanded to fit their world view. To think such a view is held by the folks who now control the economy is frightening and ought to be a clue as to where we are and where we are headed...soon.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:19 | 6027391 I-am-not-one-of-them
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'settled science?'

 

it's settled, so don't try to disprove it, or else

 

gives them time to run to the bank a few more times

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:40 | 6028042 Amy G. Dala
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Heathens!  Deniers!  We shall strike down with great vengeance and furious anger those who challenge the settled science!  And if this blasphemy emanates from our halls of higher education, we shall pluck the tongues from the deniers and attack their research funding!  Behold, a research grant from BP Corp!  Proof of evil amongst the faithful!  The exorcism must begin immediately!

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 19:53 | 6028224 MEAN BUSINESS
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Attention thread-jacker: Submit a request to discuss this topic to nmewn. MEANwhile, restrict your comments regarding AGW to AGW threads posted on Zero Hedge. That is all.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:40 | 6027199 farmboy
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Appl is the new nokia. Great Tech but it can easily be mimicked or replaced like nokia then.

Appl watch is a result for a need to innovate and so they come up with this nuts idea. Good luck with that.

However shorting is a problem in a world were AMZN can rise on nothing. Business model of AMZN is extremely flawed they have nothing to show.

We are doomed.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:44 | 6027225 FrancisBlack
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And Beta was better than VHS but we see where that ended up. My wife got an iphone 6 and had issues from the first day which still continue on a day to day basis. The fact is they are not even as reliable as droids at this point. My Ipad was a piece of crap and couldn't even connect to wireless half the time. I never understood how they lasted this long to be honest. I prefer Linux to Apple but I still use Windows though I loathe MS. I'm calling top on Apple.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:50 | 6027253 undercover brother
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The guy in the picture looks like a doofus

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:53 | 6027270 wmbz
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AAPL zombies would give up everything, go homeless and live on the street to get their next product.

Of course many of them live on the sidewalk 2-3 times a year waiting to buy whatever it is, they have pumped up and out!

Bonuses for the workers/slaves at Foxconn!

.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:03 | 6027321 Atomizer
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He just updated his ObamaPhone to a iwatch. Bet he doesn't realize that he can't pair the two devices. 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:54 | 6027274 nakki
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I was looking for AWS numbers this morning and one article struck me. Some clown wrote that Amazon's profits were 1 billion and 6 billion. I had to do a double take. Then I read a few more articles and found that revenue was 6 billion and expected profits were 1 billion. They have since taken the article down since it was apparent that revenue and profit are diffe things.  

So will give Amazon a billion a year in profits with AWS and maybe some day 1 billion in all other areas. That would be mean Amazon is making $4 a share. 

Can someone please explain how first off its trading $450, and secondly what the big deal with server space "the cloud". Is it just me, or is it just a nice word for storage facility?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:28 | 6027423 I Write Code
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"Cloud" also moves the heavy processing into nowhereland, so that you can access it with feeble little smart phones and tablets and still see the results of big databases and even heavy computations.

Conceptually it even lets big users share a bank of a thousand servers, so they use them all for an hour at primetime, then let someone else run crap on them during the slow hours.  In reality not so much, and everyone's primetime tends to overlap.

It is probably here to stay, in big public clouds or smaller private clouds.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:58 | 6027574 nakki
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Thanks, I just look at it as someone else's mainframe that 99% access for entertainment purposes. Businesses that use it have to know that all that info will be data mined and that just seems crazy to me. NSA knowing everything is bad enough throw in a private or publicly traded corp. and that's just too much.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:53 | 6027776 prymythirdeye
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Thanks for the explanation.  I never understood the point of cloud computing.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:35 | 6028030 tarabel
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The point of cloud computing is to sever the link between you and ownership of your software and data. it's seem free and oh-so-easy for now, but eventually it will be the greatest cash cow of all time.

Then you will pay a steep monthly fee, just like cable TV, and your data will be permanently owned by the people you pay to snoop on you. Deletion is not an option on the cloud. Multiple entities have all of it-- forever.

Every cloud program comes with relentless auto-updating that is filled with spyware, monitors, and back doors. No escape. None.

 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:00 | 6027306 Youri Carma
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Andy Richter's New Apple Watch - CONAN on TBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQPJSaiNS-Y

Good thing though you can immediately recognize the morons by their Apple shackle now.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:01 | 6027311 venturen
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The snake of Wall Street wants you to take the bite of Apple in the Stock Market of Eden....go ahead what could go wrong

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:11 | 6027351 khakuda
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The fate of the NASDAQ is in the hands of the Fed and Janet "Call me Bubbles" Yellen.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:12 | 6027355 falak pema
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Unfortunately for Putin the head of Apple is a gay !

And he reflects a sentiment that is very prevalent today!

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:30 | 6028023 tarabel
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Why would that bother Putin? He's KGB, which means that he was specifically trained to take anything in any orifice for the greater glory of the state.

Little guy like that with the saucy blue eyes might have gone down more than Timmy himself.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:24 | 6027413 Downtoolong
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How about a diamond studded, solid gold, nostalgic Ipod in the original design, preloaded with U2 favorites and songs from the 90’s?

Well then damn it Tim, you come up with something, I’m all out of ideas.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:29 | 6027426 BoPeople
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So, we have learned:
1. Apple (and other producers of things) earnings are completely dependent on labor arbitrage. If they did not have it, they would be just another company and possibly not profitable.
2. Internet 2 tech babies are successful if they are able to sell their data to the NSA, CIA, Mossad and other agencies.
3. Drug companies make their profits by purchasing the right from government to create monopolies for products that people want and also purchasing laws that force people to take products they do not need ... and prescribed by doctors who are not allowed to be licensed unless they submit.
4. Bank earnings are completely dependent on the Fed and the laws they purchase which make theft and fraud legal if done by them.

Will someone please press the re-set button ... hopefully without nuclear (or any other kind of) war.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 17:50 | 6027923 ucde
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nice summary.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:34 | 6027444 Jtrillian
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Never put all your eggs in one basket.  It NEVER ends well. 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:38 | 6027474 tommylicious
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FUCK YOU FANBOYS!!!!

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:40 | 6027487 q99x2
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Apple's main function as a corporation is as a vehicle of FRAUD for the FED and the TBTF

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:45 | 6027752 prymythirdeye
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Excellent point.  Makes you wonder what some companies real reason for being is.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:48 | 6027521 cougar_w
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Why do you guys hate capitalism so?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:13 | 6027609 falak pema
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The question should be why do you guys hate MONOPOLY capitalism so?

Why does the world hate a Google big data monopoly of "clickomania" advertising dictatorship and total collusion with TPP "absolutist capitalism"  which relegates world citizens to second zone status and "hyperconsumerism" and mindless sheepleism to the Ferguson type serfdom of tomorrow.

All the while Apple has made the WORLD monopoly Foxconn slave body shop the third world pardner to the Oligarchy of USA as outsourced world factory; the faceless mafia of those who can ONLY live with a destroyed HFT manipulated market and NSA, NSA as their saviour against all those "terrorists" who dare question status quo.

"Ave Caesar morituri te salutant!" Is forever the motto of this age as the boat people collapse in the sea and Oligarchy surrogates make the world a permanent war stage! 

We move to a world of awesome cruelty. If you look at the statistics the sale of military equipment to all of Middle East is EXPLOSINg from Pakistan to Nigeria including Algeria and Morocco.

The west has ONLY one thing to sell : ARMS MOAR ARMS and more death.

Now what was your question? 

I know the answer : Its all Keynes's fault! 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:16 | 6027645 cheech_wizard
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>All ths while Apple has made the Foxconn slave body shop

Let me correct this...

All the while every electronics manufacturer the world over has made the Foxconn slave body shop their third world partner...

One needs merely check Foxconn's customer list...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:23 | 6027673 falak pema
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stand corrected : world oligarchy in the image of Apple model.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:21 | 6027662 silverer
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Hate?  We miss capitalism.  It could only happen again if the government goes away.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:37 | 6027727 ironmace
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+10000

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 17:45 | 6027904 Savyindallas
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The Commies in China are capitallists  -a helluva lot more than we are. 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:23 | 6027674 Comte d'herblay
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What's Capitalism??

Is that like what the Jews of Wall Street ------who have demanded to be made whole after losing trillions their own money in boneheaded, avaricious, fraudulent mortgage back securities deals, ands CDO's and  CLO's----did during the runup to the near destruction of world economies?

Or is it GM which, under the rules of Capitalism would no longer exist but still does due to the government suspending the Capitalist model and 'lending' it money no capitalist would? 

 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:14 | 6027980 Bear
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I'm waiting for Hillary to bring it back ... it seems that she's got a real handle on open, transparent discovery

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:19 | 6027654 silverer
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Let's see: desktop, laptop, tablet, smart phone, check.  Smart car, check.  Webcams and mini-cams, check.  Smaller than ever compact memory, check.  Fast enough processors, check.  Small enough device, (not much farther to go that we could afford), check.  Glasses (done by Google), check.  Wristwatch (Apple), check.  Now what?  Anybody?  Smart hat?  Smart shoes?  Smart ass?  Checkmate.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:39 | 6027736 I need more asshats
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Smart hats please. Moar.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:26 | 6027690 Grimaldus
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My employer sells to Apple. Sure hope the same dumbass's keep buyin Apple shit at the same rate, the profit sharing has been awesome.

When Apple takes it's big crap it will get bad around here.

Grimaldus

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:55 | 6027780 cheech_wizard
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This goes one of two ways.

1) Apple finds a second source for whatever it is your employer manufactures. (In which place, your statement about

it will get bad around here is 100% accurate).

2) Your employer is constantly on the lookout for other companies to sell to. (Again, if you are relying on all your

revenue coming from Apple alone, again, it will get bad around here is 100% accurate).

 

Standard Disclaimer:

For the sake of your sanity, make friends in the shipping/receiving department and the sales department,

They will always know ahead of you how the business is going. 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 16:54 | 6027778 captainkid
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the average pe in my portfolia right now is over 20. I would sell it all but why? just but sp put options to hedge.

 

this entire market is a joke, its all going to crash in stunning brilliance. I have my popcorn ready!

 

 

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 14:04 | 6029512 Crocodile
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PUT options cost money and they expire; that is why.  Trailing Stop limits should be in place.  http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trailingstop.asp

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 17:00 | 6027794 Nue
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Apple knows it's iDevice market is saturated which is trying to become a payment company with ApplePay which will probably evolve into a full scale banking operaton at some point in the future. (Gotta do something with that all cash) At that time Tim Cook will in the same manner that Julius Caesar and other Roman generals did with defeated rival generals,  Sodomize A head banking regulator before the seated members of the House and Senate to prove his supremacy over them.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:12 | 6027976 litemine
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I don't own nor do I want a Leash. (CELL PHONE)

Will they supply me when I hold an account, if not  I will just bank at a Credit Union or where I can withdraw CASH.

When the Bankers were Bailed out, without Jail Time they now set their Rules even Higher.

Cash will become even more valuable when there isn't any, if you don't hold it, you don't own it. 

 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 17:05 | 6027811 PGR88
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Tim Cook jumped the shark with his anti-Indiana gay-marriage BS

When a corporate oligarch feels it necessary to jump on short-term political themes and social trends, its a sign they are too big and ripe for a fall.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 17:20 | 6027855 Clowns on Acid
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Without the immoral Fed money printing the fall would have already been here. have they stopped printing? I don't think so. I think they discovered Shadow banking and are now using that for themselves.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 02:13 | 6028790 damicol
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That's what mouthy fucking faggots do. Loud fucking sanctimonious cocksuckers are usually the worst, these faggots I am reliably informed are the ones who like to tell every other fucker what to do, give orders, tell the other faggots how to think, and aleays pushing to get some fucking shitty pointless fucking campaign going to meke them look important.

The other faggots, the quiet ones who do as they are told, bend over and take it up the ass without a murmer, never seem to cause trouble.

Fucking faggit by bothering cook is the worst type, a fucking mouthy faggot with an agenda and a fucking financial fraudster rolled into one.

 

 

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 13:59 | 6029470 Crocodile
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Imagine playing with, in any manner, a "fudge covered & stinking hotdog" & how it got that way; is that really natural or the intended order?  It is truly a choice and disgusting at that and God did not approve; He warns about it.  Romans 1

---------------I digress------

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 03:00 | 6028819 JoJoJo
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Cook said his gayness was "greatest gift from God." He not only jumped the shark, he jumped the sperm whale.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 17:33 | 6027879 ali-ali-al-qomfri
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we are now an Apple Republic- we don't even grow them here.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 17:36 | 6027889 Schmuck Raker
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Goldman Sacs?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 17:45 | 6027906 A_Gobshite
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I have a feeling Apple iWatches will be as popular as Google Glasses.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 19:17 | 6028129 Cornfedbloodstool
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I just checked the price for Google Glass. They want over a grand for the cheaper older models. Who the hell would buy that shit.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:02 | 6027954 Bear
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It seems that not all agree with your premise:

$NFLX $AMZN $GOOGL pre ER run and post ER plays; takes the guesswork out of ER, which have been terrific this season so far!

 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:39 | 6028040 Rockfish
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Today is Friday and then there will be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY 

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 19:14 | 6028118 VooDoo6Actual
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APPLE is a Cult of Personality charade. All HIPSTER BS. Won't make it in the end. PLENTY of better products out there regarding Cell Phones. Samsung, LG et al blows APPLE away spec wise. Tim Cook's continued arrogance & lies to the public regardig surveillance & releasing OSi before the bugs are workled oout is not only caustoc but in the end APPLE's dishonesty & ethics wroking for the BORG will cost them. I was a happy loyal APPLE customer until their products started to be redundant, overlapping & releasing software for the profit before the product was ready. The stoopid it burns....I say the Technocracy that Brezenski's arrogance predicted was flat out wrong & HUGE mistake.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 13:36 | 6029467 Crocodile
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Sounds like Microsoft.  Can't wait for the Windows 10; jack of all OS's and Master of none coming very soon in the future.  The only people excited about MS 10 are the techno-craps; the real people who want something that is an improvement are already disappointed; will make 8.2 look god finally.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 20:00 | 6028241 RMolineaux
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They are tapping into the Dick Tracy comic book readers.  Qualification: have to be born before 1950

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 21:13 | 6028376 Dirtt
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Holding cash isn't a business model. The gig is up.

This is not a knock on Apple. There are no quantum leaps. Display hurdles don't exist anymore.

The hurdle is bandwidth. And since the Progressive cocksuckers can't win a debate even left alone with their cocksucking Progressive comrades, their only device is Net Dicktrality.

When Progressives win the Net Dicktrality battle they will lose the WAR.

I'm finally finding I don't need the Internet anymore.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 21:41 | 6028420 arrowrod
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Yeah for me.  zzzzzz

Help, I've lost control of my keyboard.   And, Adblock ain't working.  Never realized how much crap is on the side windows.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 21:53 | 6028450 fel.temp.reparatio
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The iPopTM ...coming soon!

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 22:13 | 6028504 man of Wool
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So its not a Tech bubble its an Apple Bubble.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 22:39 | 6028546 capital one
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I freelance over th? internet and earn about 80-85$ an hour. I was without a job for 7 months but last month my paycheck with big fat bonus was $15000 just working on my computer from my home for 5-6 hours. Here's what i have been doing... www.globe-report.com

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 23:14 | 6028632 DipshitMiddleCl...
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apple is the only tech company that actually makes anything

 

derr

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 00:03 | 6028693 g'kar
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"The Fate of The Tech Bubble Is In The Hands Of Just One Company"

 

The Fed's plunge protection team.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 00:15 | 6028700 JoWazzoo
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I don't understand why ZH keeps running articles about Earnings.  Obviously stawk buyers don't give a shit about earnings.  Or bad data.  Wait til the GDP number comes out at ONE TENTH % growth.  No one will give a shit about that either.  On that date I forecast that the S & P will go UP.

No one gives a flying fuck about anything that makes SENSE!  Get over it and do like me.  Fuck em.  I ain't pissing anymore money away on SPY puts.  You are just pissing away good money.

 

Did anyone give a flying fuck about the Chinese PMI numbers?  Nope.  Chinese and American stocks went UP.  Stocks only go up.  Get over it.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 13:30 | 6029454 Crocodile
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The market does seem to pay attention to revenues; so if the earnings come in "as expected or greater" (despite lowered expectation), but revenues are below expectation the stock price falls.  Last quarter the best example was Walmart, they beat earnings expectations, but not revenues.  Whereas Apple shattered both earnings and revenues, but the uptick in stock price was delayed and now has been fairly flat (oscillating between $124-129) as it is holding the line for the rest of the tech market for now.  After this iWatch that only a "fool" would want shows disappointment and the i6 cooling down from the q4 14'; expect earnings and revenues to drop significantly (remember there is built in "lowered expectations") and this may drive the entire NASDAQ & DOW down by 5-10% beginning right before Apple's earnings announcement. Notice that this announcement doesn't have all the "Hollywood" fever in it as the last one.  Expect a run up in the indexes, as we have seen, and watch for small down-ticks leading up to the announcement as the insiders position themselves to steal.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 00:20 | 6028705 asfffasfff
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never bought apple products   even on ebay

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 02:52 | 6028795 Atomizer
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Buy one to experiment with OS. It's a one pony mono OS. Directed to the bottom button. God forbid if you could gesture and mutitask several multiple windows at once. 

The BlackBerry Passport SUCKS!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I_vzNxgjDh0

Always enjoy his sarcastic humor. My new phone is the bitch. Mrs Atomizer is still learning the old QNX operating system. Actually, the new update on the old Z10. She likes it. It fell off the truck of car. Minor nick and neighbor called us the following morning to report the phone in her yard. You can only imagine my explosive behavior in having the phone since Z10 launch date. This is not a joke, we probably have over 30 cell phone chargers than don't have a parent phone. I still love her. 


Sat, 04/25/2015 - 03:29 | 6028839 22winmag
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How many Marlboro men or "man's man" types have you ever seen clutching iCrap?

 

That's what I thought.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 04:47 | 6028866 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Nothing tougher than accessorizing leather chaps

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 17:54 | 6029864 Atomizer
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iPlug is the new virginia slim choice in smoking a cigarette.  I referred them to vaginal slims. 

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 06:35 | 6028904 Last of the Mid...
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 I wonder how long before the sheeple decide the iwatch was really a fucking stupid idea. I'm already there.

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 13:17 | 6029435 Crocodile
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One word from one expert: iCroc!!

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 17:57 | 6029877 Atomizer
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Yep, RFID will monitor how many steps you take to qualify for ObamaCare. 

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 13:34 | 6029464 EBT excepted
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mebbe d'bama ca' sabe d' mokket by givaway d'bama wochess, den dey be nown as bama wochess, and den sabe d'mokket...

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 14:10 | 6029524 Crocodile
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The Apple watch; the golden one, is a way for Apple to accumulate some golden Apples for the future.  Who buys an iWatch?  Even fewer the golden iWatch.  What to do with the extra gold?  I wonder who supplies the gold to Apple - Goldman?

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 17:42 | 6029849 Crisnach
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Apple Inc. aapl. Pronosticos matematicos sin comentarios de texto, sobre cotizaciones en TR tiempo real, I intradia, C corto, M medio y L largo plazo...http://www.aseperfi.com, http://www.aseperfi.com/net/aatricnl/inftricmlaapl.htm. Saludos Juan Gajete Aseperfi

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