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Folks,
The really interesting part of this situation is Apple's stock performance since Tuesday. I think that drove the refund as much as the complaints on user forums. Or, perhaps, the stock price drop is investors fearing that the real reason for the iPhone price drop is slow sales. If so, they're not going to resolve that with a price drop - they might get somewhere by getting out of the exclusive AT&T contract. I wonder if Apple had counted on the hacker community opening up the iPhone for use on T-Mobile? Their PPPP for the new iPod release may also have helped to drive the stock down by 13 points (from 145) in two days. -- Ray Parks rcparks at sandia.gov Consilient Heuristician Voice:505-844-4024 ATA Department Mobile:505-238-9359 http://www.sandia.gov/scada Fax:505-844-9641 http://www.sandia.gov/idart Pager:800-690-5288 http://www.sandia.gov/redteam2007 |
For Apple stock in particular, I would zoom out a little further than
a few days and you will see that it is fairly normal for this stock to have really wide swings for a variety of reasons and sometimes for no reason at all (at least that I can tell). For instance, it was way down into the 120's when the credit news first started to come out a few weeks ago. Apple stock has been heavily traded and very volatile for the last few years. So I don't really think Apple's management is guided very much by their day to day stock price. At least I hope not. On Sep 7, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Raymond Parks wrote: > Folks, > > The really interesting part of this situation is Apple's stock > performance since Tuesday. I think that drove the refund as much > as the > complaints on user forums. > > Or, perhaps, the stock price drop is investors fearing that the real > reason for the iPhone price drop is slow sales. If so, they're not > going to resolve that with a price drop - they might get somewhere by > getting out of the exclusive AT&T contract. I wonder if Apple had > counted on the hacker community opening up the iPhone for use on T- > Mobile? > > Their PPPP for the new iPod release may also have helped to drive > the > stock down by 13 points (from 145) in two days. > > -- > Ray Parks rcparks at sandia.gov > Consilient Heuristician Voice:505-844-4024 > ATA Department Mobile:505-238-9359 > http://www.sandia.gov/scada Fax:505-844-9641 > http://www.sandia.gov/idart Pager:800-690-5288 > http://www.sandia.gov/redteam2007 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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