While I agree with you that the iPhone is a much better design, UI, and is immediately usable due to its concentration on user experience, I still use my Samsung Galaxy S5 more than my iPhone. For one, the battery lasts a lot longer.

I agree. I've been pretty frustrated with iOS8's poor usability. iOS6, when Steve Jobs oversaw it, was so easy to use and brilliant.
Now iOS8 is as sucky as Android.

Also theres no reason for me to buy a new Apple device. I have an iPhone 6 and an iPad Air 2, and when I compare them to my friends iPhone 5S and his iPad Air 1 they're the same speed or a fraction of a second faster in tasks. So I paid extra for almost nothing except a slightly larger screen on iPhone.

So I don't plan on buying another new iPhone for at least 3 years and a new iPad for another 5 years because theres no reason to.
I'll buy the iPhone 9 and the iPad Air 5 when they come out in 2019 lol.
otherwise I dont plan on buying another apple device for any reason.

ps - I've said this before but I bought a MacBook Pro and I haaaaaaate using it. I never ever use it except for my iOS class lessons and the app im working on. For my daily work and everything else Im always on my Windows machine. I hate it so much I've been considering giving up on iOS development and moving to Javascript/php on a windows computer.

I dont care what anyone says about Macs being far superior to Windows. Except for video quality (Ill give you that, Mac video quality is way better) when it comes to actually doing work and using shortcuts in my daily tasks I enjoy my Windows machine better than Mac.

Agreed on this. I have the iphone 5 and an iphone 5s. I might upgrade the 5 just because the thumb print to unlock is great when driving but then Siri does most things without unlocking so maybe not.

The battery on the Samsung is amazing compared to my iphone. The iphone is on the charger after half a day and the samsung has gone 2 days.

Even tho i don't like apple, I really don't think that it's going down or at least not in the next 5-7 years

The trend is your friend, when AAPL broke out of the trading range in October it was about $102 and just took off

my analysis on the daily chart - still looks like an uptrend
AAPL ? Apple, Inc. ? Daily Pattern still Holding for Uptrend | Game of Stocks - Stock Market Trends Using Heikin-Ashi Charts

my analysis on the weekly chart from yesterday - A trend reversal is evident to the downside
AAPL Apple, Inc. ? Some Analysis here on the Weekly Chart, looks like a possible reversal of uptrend. | Game of Stocks - Stock Market Trends Using Heikin-Ashi Charts

i dont like the fundamentals & think in long term time horizon, how much higher can apple really go? it already makes oil company cashflow, its not going to double that. not when half that money is made on 1 gadget thats lost its edge.

fact is, the competition in its core space keeps getting tougher. Not only are there more smartphones, there are more tablets, tablet/laptops, more everything. its not the leader in UI anymore.

since jobs has passed, nothing new has happened. the most anticipated gadget is the watch & the early buzz is lacking innovative new uses. it will be a great running tracker. hurray.

i would short at the watch release. any sneeze in sales will push the stock back into a lower range & thereby put a ceiling on a short position.

:warning

Until something changes with the way the phone works, Apple will reign supreme. Now that they finally decided to give us a larger screen we could upgrade.

They are smartly going to update the older screen size of the 5 version to the newer look and cpu which will then give them 3 phones.

with apple watch release date set, i'd be looking for the spot to stick a short back to a trading range. tho there may be a run back to the high in advance of the release.

considering how bad droid wearables are selling, this could be a disaster. That watch is a pig! much worse is that only iphone owners can use all its functions, thats a deal breaker. its sole market is iphone 5 & up users. iphone 4 users are SOL.

:)

uh oh. watch release date delayed. must be due to lack of lines at apple stores. all signs point to a collapse any day now.

If anything I think the watch increases the demand to upgrade to the 5 or 6.

yeah, musta been a rough morning for me, lol

yes. that is their cross marketing trickery at work. it works very well for them.

i still think the watch is a pig. chart showing double top formation, we are at a tipping point, the all time high. its either about to march higher, or will fall back to lower trading range, giving cushion to short position.

shorted today at 132 with a stop at 144. boo-ya baby.

:2 cents:

With all the companies to short you pick AAPL? This won't end very well. Cut your losses now lol

And this evening Apple released their Q2 numbers:
Earnings of $2.33 per share (analysts expected $2.16)
Total sales of $58 billion, market expected $56 billion
Apple traded up 1.8% during trading day and 1.4% in the after market after report had been published.
Apple also announced it will increase its program to buy back shares, to $140 billion, up from previously $90 billion.
Apple sold 61.2 million iPhones, market expected 58.2 million iPhones.
For the first time, the amount of iPhones sold in China surpassed the amount sold in the US during the period.
Sales of iPad and Macs were slightly down.

Seems to be doing very good at the moment, I do not see any sudden drop in the Apple share price. At least not anytime soon.

aapl sold off today. this report was already priced in. when all the good news is priced in, there is only 1 direction to go...

:)

not investing. just grabbing some points as this stock returns to trading range. it was pumped up for the earnings report to fleece the little guys buying today. i expect watch news to not be helpful to the price. its launch is delayed & early buzz is meh...

:2 cents:

AAPL is at 126! now all i need to decide is when to take profits :)

looming trouble for apple

short apple while you can...still good at these levels.

:GFYBand

I am using the same iMac27 that I purchased from way back in 2009 for about $2500. Not only is it just as fast as it ever was, but the machine still works perfectly. And even though its way past warranty, I still get free support, and free operating system updates.

I'll also note that all of our Macs have been virus, adware and malware free since the beginning.

People who buy Apple products aren't sheeples. They are consumers who saw a product at a fair price, and bought it. People who stay with Apple aren't sheeples either - they are consumers who's repeat business from Apple has been earned.

I know what I'm talking about. I used to be a PC-only guy too, and never would have bought an Apple product until one day when I really needed one. Since then though, I can't imagine ever going back.

I finally got around to switching from Android (S5) to iPhone.

Holy shit, why didn't I make the switch sooner?

I should have switched at the same time I dropped the PC.

Android and Windows are both so slow, bloated and painful.

Still holding? that was a lucky call, don't get greedy :Graucho

no i bailed with a small profit & am kicking myself now.

Everyone went out and bought the bigger screen, but now theres no reason to buy a new device for another few years.
I got the iphone 6 and an ipad air2. Im not buying another one until say the iphone 9 comes out lol

does everyone like my twitter short I called?

They just sold 50 million iPhones so people are still buying. Plus only 20% upgraded from the 4-5 to the six.