Thursday, December 28, 2017

The strategy under Steve Jobs was fraudulent.

This is Wall Street. This is the greed the world wants to emulate. Really?

Apple needs to determine it's liability to the owners of iPhones and reimburse those compelled to purchase new phones. I think the newest generation of iPhone could be discounted to these purchases to allow them to EASILY purchase it. That is, of course, if they still want an Apple iPhone.


December 27, 2017
By Samantha Miller

Apple gets caught throttling (click here) its customers after years of speculation.

The concept of planned obsolescence is unproven as a long-term strategy for continued growth.

How much does the value of eroded trust impact Apple's relatively high stock price?...

The lying appears to be habitual. I would think Apple has an abundant supply of the new iPhone to compensate their customers signing on to past purchases due to poor performance imposed by Apple.

December 28, 2017
By Tae Kim

The market's anticipation of strong sales (click here) from the new iPhones drove Apple shares much higher this year, but now one Wall Street firm says optimism for big upside is not warranted.

Wells Fargo Securities reiterated its market perform rating for Apple shares, saying the latest China export data points to meager iPhone sales growth in the December quarter.

"An analysis of China Province-level mobile phone export data this week reinforces our cautious opinion on Apple's iPhone cycle," analyst Aaron Rakers wrote in a note to clients Wednesday entitled "iPhone-Related China Data Analysis: Implying Limited / No Yr/Yr Growth Thus Far In 4Q17."

The analyst wrote they "currently see limited/no upside potential to our 81.2M iPhone ship estimate."...