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I grabbed some 7/22 $135 calls this afternoon. Huge discount.
APPLE Lions tigers and BEARS oh my
Apple CALL WRITING coming in to the 07/08/22 $130 CALLS
By: Money Flow Mel | June 16, 2022
• $AAPL CALL WRITING coming in to the 07/08/22 $130 CALLS below the BID (writing to collect premium) ~ 16.4K contracts/$7 mil.
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NASDAQ and DOW haven’t even gone down yet it’s gonna be hell for Apple
Apple down big today woohooooooooo
Apple is a made up stock price should not be trading over $25 16 billion shares Who the hell would buy company with 16 billion shares
It’s going to get bad for Apple Warning warning
Get out of Apple’s fast as you can Stock is junk
Apple will get killed today CNBC & Cramer are the new Fed he makes the decisions Jim wants 75 he got it.Fed definitely didn’t make this decision
Apple is done shouldn’t of did another Stock split $25 target price
Cable takes substantial hit: Major sports league will stream exclusively on Apple TV app
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 11:58 pm
Cable television took a major hit on Tuesday as Apple and Major League Soccer (MLS) announced that the Apple TV app will be the exclusive destination to watch every single live MLS match beginning in 2023. This partnership is a historic first for a major professional sports league, and will allow fans around the world to watch all MLS, Leagues Cup (an annual association football competition between clubs from Major League Soccer and Liga MX in North America), and select MLS NEXT Pro and MLS NEXT (youth and developmental leagues) matches in one place — without any local broadcast blackouts or the need for a traditional pay TV bundle.
From early 2023 through 2032, fans can get every live MLS match by subscribing to a new MLS streaming service, available exclusively through the Apple TV app. A broad selection of MLS and Leagues Cup matches, including some of the biggest matchups, will also be available at no additional cost to Apple TV+ subscribers, with a limited number of matches available for free.
The MLS live and on-demand content on the Apple TV app will be available to anyone with internet access across all devices where the app can be found, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV 4K, and Apple TV HD; Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Sony, TCL, VIZIO, and other smart TVs; Amazon Fire TV and Roku devices; PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles; Chromecast with Google TV; and Comcast Xfinity. Fans can also watch on tv.apple.com.
Samuel Axon and Eric Bangeman for Ars Technica:
Major League Soccer dwells just outside the rarified popular sports neighborhood occupied by the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and college football and basketball. But even with MLS’s relative lack of popularity compared to the other leagues, this announcement from Apple is a Very Big Deal.
Live sports is by far the top reason millions of people have yet to cut the cord, severing their ties to cable companies and satellite TV providers. That’s merely because the easiest way to follow your hometown team—outside of the NFL, which has all of its games free to air in local markets — is to subscribe to your local cable company or a satellite provider. Those are the folks who carry the regional sports network that has the rights to broadcast your local teams…
For the first time, an MLS fan can watch all of their favorite team’s matches without a cable subscription. That’s huge because this is the first time this has been the case for any major American sports league.
MacDailyNews Take: This Apple + MLS deal is a tectonic shift in sports media landscape. Other major sports leagues will follow, cutting out cable in some form or another. (There’s no word yet on how much this MLS subscription will cost. Expect that news to come later.)
Alex Silverman and John Ourand for Sports Business Journal:
Survey data indicates the average MLS fan is 39.6 years old and that Generation Z and Millennials account for 58% of its fan base. Apple’s MLS deal will start next season, coinciding with a restructuring of the MLS schedule that will see most regular-season matches played on Saturday nights. Having a series of matches on Saturday nights with staggered start times will allow the league to offer a whip-around show akin to NFL Red Zone through its new streaming service and Apple TV+…
MLS execs said that Apple is not paying a straight rights fee for the package of rights. Rather, Apple is paying a minimum guarantee that sources say is worth $250M per year starting in ‘23. MLS will start to bring in more revenue as Apple sell subscriptions for a newly launched MLS subscription offering. “What’s different here is traditionally media companies pay rights fees, and you sell ads,” said MLS Commissioner Don Garber. “This is a partnership. And that partnership’s core is a subscription business that we’re going to build together, and we’re going to get a guarantee against the revenues that will be achieved on the subscription business. Then, we go over those guarantees, we’ll have the opportunity to make more money, which is really unique in sports media.”
MacDailyNews Take: Prior to this blockbuster deal, MLS was hoping for a $300 million/year TV rights deal (up from the current $90 million deal).
Instead, MLS got a guaranteed $250M/yr. for a decade (base, could be more depending on subscriptions, and certainly not bad vs. $90M/yr.) and Apple dramatically altered yet another market’s landscape yet again. Sports universe dented.
Apple can invest $2.5 billion per decade until the Tuesday after infinity without even noticing.
More, please!
Cook should consider bidding for and winning NFL Sunday Ticket away from Direct TV, buying rights to Premiere League and La Liga games, etc. and making them Apple TV exclusives. Go directly to the sports leagues with boatloads of cash. — MacDailyNews, May 6, 2014
https://macdailynews.com/2022/06/14/cable-takes-substantial-hit-major-sports-league-will-stream-exclusively-on-apple-tv-app/
Analysts: Apple is still the best bet in a tech spending slowdown
Wednesday, June 15, 2022 10:55 am
In the increasingly likely event of a slowdown in consumer spending on tech hardware amid rampant U.S. inflation, Apple is still the best bet, analysts say.
Jack Denton for Barron’s:
With inflation at 40-year highs, “consumer spending intentions are turning more cautious, even for high-end consumer,” wrote [Morgan Stanley] analysts led by Erik Woodring in a note.
The team at the bank said that low- and mid-range consumer spending has been deteriorating for months, but that so far high-end spend has held up. That’s crucial because the top 20% of earners in the U.S. make up 40% of spending. But with the S&P 500 in a bear market, consumer confidence at a decade low, and inflation on everyone’s minds, “the risks of a pullback at even the high-end consumer are rising,” the analysts said.
Morgan Stanley sees the companies that make discretionary products and benefitted from the pandemic as at the greatest risk, but no one is spared: The bank has cut estimates for 2023 revenue in the sector by 5%, on average.
The last stock standing was Apple. While the tech giant and iPhone maker’s stock price was reduced to $185 from $195, the company remains the single stock in the sector rated at Overweight by Morgan Stanley.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s demographic advantage (well-heeled customers) make the company more likely to hold up during times steeped in malaise.
The price tags on and features of Apple’s products are an IQ test. They are a filter that Apple uses to skim off the desirable customers and leave the leftovers to the knockoff peddlers. — MacDailyNews, October 18, 2013
Apple targets high-value consumers. Apple separates the wheat from the chaff with their value proposition. – MacDailyNews, November 13, 2013
Unit sales do not equal profit share. Unit sales most certainly do not equal customer quality. 1,000 cheapskates who buy nothing do not equal one quality customer who participates routinely in a vibrant ecosystem. — MacDailyNews, December 2, 2013
https://macdailynews.com/2022/06/15/analysts-apple-is-still-the-best-bet-in-a-tech-spending-slowdown/
Morgan Stanley Lowers Apple (AAPL) Price Target to $185.00
By: MarketBeat | June 14, 2022
• Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL - Get Rating) had its price target dropped by investment analysts at Morgan Stanley from $195.00 to $185.00 in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday, The Fly reports. Morgan Stanley's target price suggests a potential upside of 39.35% from the company's previous close...
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Working Apple-1 signed by Woz sells for $340,100
Monday, June 13, 2022 4:20 pm
A rare, working Apple-1, signed by Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak, has sold for more than $340,100 via eBay.
Oliver Haslam for iMore:
Sold by The AAPL Collection out of Dubai, the working Apple-1 is 42 years old — older than many reading this — and is a work of art. That’s presumably what the person who won this eBay auction also believes, having agreed to hand over $340,100 to get their hands on it.
The original Apple-1 was sold without a case, power supply, keyboard, or monitor which might make it a very early Mac mini of sorts, although even that comes with a couple of those parts in the box. The seller says that this example is “one of the few remaining that has all period components” and that it comes with “all the typical period accessories.”
While the name of the buyer hasn’t been made public, the seller does say that they are “an experienced vintage computer collector and Apple aficionado in the United States.
MacDailyNews Take: It’d be great if it turned out that Woz himself bought it (back).
https://macdailynews.com/2022/06/13/working-apple-1-signed-by-woz-sells-for-340100/
Apple Fitness+ annual revenue could hit $3.6 billion by 2025 -J.P. Morgan
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 10:23 am
J.P. Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee estimates that the annual revenue of Apple Fitness+ could hit $3.6 billion by 2025.
Mike Peterson for AppleInsider:
In a note to investors seen by AppleInsider, JP Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee notes that the global virtual fitness industry received a boost during the pandemic but is still positioned to grow over the long term.
The market ballooned to $11 billion in 2021, up from $6 billion in 2021. JP Morgan expects more than half of consumers to stick with virtual fitness, which could allow the industry to grow to $70 billion by 2026 when combined with other tailwinds.
Compared to other focused fitness offerings, Chatterjee also thinks that Apple Fitness+ can appeal to a wider demographic because of the broad range of fitness activities.
The analyst believes that Apple Fitness+ revenue can grow to reach $3.6 billion by 2025, up from $300 million in 2021.
MacDailyNews Take: We like Apple Fitness+, but we’d love to be able to search workouts more granularly. For example, we’d like to be able to find running workouts by using tags such as “intervals,” “hills,” “speed,” etc. We’d also love some better tools for organizing workouts, too.
https://macdailynews.com/2022/06/14/apple-fitness-annual-revenue-could-hit-3-6-billion-by-2025-j-p-morgan/
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft Cuts Apple (AAPL) Price Target to $175.00
By: MarketBeat | June 13, 2022
• Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL - Get Rating) had its price target cut by equities research analysts at Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft from $200.00 to $175.00 in a report issued on Tuesday, The Fly reports. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft's price objective indicates a potential upside of 32.70% from the stock's current price...
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Apple Needs ‘One More Thing’—and It Will Have to Be Big
By: Barron's | June 12, 2022
Apple needs to think big these days. Really big.
Aside from retailers Walmart and Amazon.com , Apple (ticker: AAPL) generates more revenue than any other American company. This year, the total should approach $400 billion. The business generates huge amounts of cash and increasingly returns it to shareholders. But investors have made Apple the country’s most highly valued company largely due to its ability to innovate—to deliver new ideas that can drive revenue even higher.
The math is daunting. To boost revenue by 10%, Apple needs to find $40 billion in additional annual sales. That’s about the size of the company’s Mac business, which has been around since 1984, or its entire “wearables, home, and accessories” segment, which includes Apple Watch, AirPods, and HomePods.
This past week, Apple showcased some of its new ideas at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC. Its nearly two-hour keynote address actually seemed light on game-changers. But beneath the surface, there were hints of where Apple might find the next big thing. Here are the options:
Augmented Reality: There have been widespread reports that Apple is close to launching glasses for augmented and virtual reality. The latest leaks suggested this year’s WWDC would finally offer the big reveal. If Apple is getting ready to launch a platform for AR/VR experiences, it needs its software developers to play along. But the company said nothing. Zilch.
While frustrated, Wall Street still believes. “Something big is coming,” says Gene Munster, an investor, former analyst, and longtime Apple watcher, now with Loup Ventures. But he concedes that “the silence was deafening.”
Munster points out that Apple had touched on AR every year at WWDC since 2017, when the company launched its first AR tools for developers, called ARKit. Munster says Apple is either winding down its AR ambitions or “somebody missed a target and they had to hold off.” He thinks the latter is more likely. Munster’s revised guess is that we’ll hear the Apple AR/VR story at WWDC 2023.
A slew of other large-cap tech companies are betting that augmented and virtual reality can become a huge business. Mark Zuckerberg is so convinced about the power of the so-called metaverse that he changed his company’s name to Meta Platforms (META). Microsoft (MSFT) is developing a version of its HoloLens smart glasses for business and military applications. If this turns out to be a huge opportunity, Apple will want to be there. But there isn’t a big market yet, and previous experiments have fizzled. (Remember Google Glass?) The market once thought Apple was going to build TVs. It never did.
Cars: While an Apple Car remains pure speculation, there was a new wrinkle at WWDC. Apple plans to dramatically expand its CarPlay platform to include every screen in the driver cockpit, including the speedometer and climate controls. Apple said the first cars with this more comprehensive version of CarPlay would debut late next year. It isn’t clear whether the demo signals a full Apple Car is coming—or whether Apple has decided instead to be an ingredient brand in other cars. CarPlay is now available on almost every car ( Tesla [TSLA] being the major exception).
The car market has the sheer size and scope that would move the needle on Apple’s revenue—but the company outsources all of its manufacturing, and seems unlikely to start building automotive plants. Munster puts the probability of Apple actually producing a car at 45%. “The ambition is to have a car,” he says. “Whether or not they get there is another question.”
The new version of CarPlay “puts the Apple ecosystem at the center of the auto software experience in a way it hasn’t before—becoming more like a carOS than just one available app on a center-console display,” Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty wrote in a research note. “We believe this is likely one part of Apple’s path toward developing a car operating system and could be a small taste of what’s possible with a potential Apple Car project.”
Meanwhile, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi sees risks for the auto industry in the spread of CarPlay. Consumers love CarPlay—Apple said that 79% of consumers would only consider buying a new car if it had CarPlay. In other words, Apple might not have to make a car—it might just slurp up more automotive features into its own platform, the same way the iPhone replaced digital cameras, music players, and maps.
Finance: At the keynote, Apple announced the launch of Apple Pay Later, a buy-now-pay-later service similar to those offered by Affirm Holdings (AFRM) and other companies. The service will allow people who use the company’s Apple Pay to divide purchases into four installments, with no interest charges. That’s the latest addition to the company’s growing portfolio of financial services, including the Apple Card, which is actually issued by Goldman Sachs .
While the Pay Later transactions will go through Goldman Sachs and over the Mastercard network, Apple will be taking on the financial risk attached to the service. That decision poses the intriguing idea that Apple could leverage its huge cash pile to become a bigger player in financial services—and there aren’t many bigger markets than that.
Call it Apple National Bank.
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Apple Watch gets FDA clearance to track Parkinson’s symptoms
Monday, June 13, 2022 12:02 pm
In February 2021, Matthew Gavidia reported for the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) that an Apple Watch app designed to remotely monitor fluctuations of resting tremor and dyskinesia in persons with Parkinson disease was shown to match in-clinic evaluations of these symptoms and capture symptom changes in response to treatment for 94% of participants. Now, San Francisco-based startup Rune Labs on Monday said it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use the Apple Watch to monitor tremors and other common symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Rune Labs, a precision neurology company, today announced its StrivePD software ecosystem for Parkinson’s disease has been granted 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to collect patient symptom data through measurements made by Apple Watch. By combining powerful wearable technology and self-reported symptom information with brain imaging, electrophysiology, genetic and other clinical data, StrivePD enables a data-driven approach to care management and clinical trial design for Parkinson’s.
With this clearance, the Rune Labs’ StrivePD app enables precision clinical care and trial participation for tens of thousands of Parkinson’s patients who already use these devices in their daily lives. For patients who also use Medtronic’s Percept™ PC Deep Brain Stimulation device, this clearance for the StrivePD app will enhance clinicians’ ability to make brain-sensing data from these devices useful, as part of Rune Labs’ and Medtronic’s existing partnership. This clearance also sets the stage for leveraging StrivePD to reach a significant number of potential prodromal Parkinson’s patients.
Additionally, StrivePD on Apple Watch makes it easy for people with Parkinson’s to track and log their symptoms, enabling patients to have more control over their care.
“Being able to show my neurologist how my motor symptoms were fluctuating, thanks to StrivePD, was the impetus for me to get surgery for a deep brain stimulation device,” said Aura Oslapas, who drew from her first-hand experience with Parkinson’s to create the StrivePD mobile app, in a statement. Since Rune Labs’ acquisition of the StrivePD ecosystem in 2019, Oslapas has worked with the company to evolve the StrivePD user experience, and also recently joined its Patient Advisory Board.
“When people with Parkinson’s are prescribed new medications, adjusting how much to take and when to take it until they find something that works can be a lengthy process. StrivePD helps people to track their symptoms and improvements, accelerating the time to an optimal medication schedule – and with today’s clearance, more people will have access to this life-changing technology,” Oslapas said. “StrivePD on Apple Watch is the long-awaited union of quantitative and qualitative data that encourages better care and communication between patients and clinicians, while also empowering people with Parkinson’s who are striving to live better every day.”
“As we have seen in oncology, the introduction of large quantities of real-world data has the power to transform drug development and fundamentally change disease prognosis. This clearance is a major step towards building a similar paradigm in neurology,” said Brian Pepin, CEO and Founder of Rune Labs, in a statement. “With all of the data we will collect and the patients we will reach through this clearance, we will make sure the right participants enroll in trials, and help our pharma and medtech partners run more efficient trials with higher quality outcomes data, thereby enabling more therapies to come to market quickly to help those suffering from Parkinson’s.”
Until now, clinicians and researchers have made decisions surrounding patient care based on limited information and data. Rune Labs is bringing together novel multimodal data that will radically transform what it means to be a patient with Parkinson’s. Having visibility into this data will accelerate drug development, using higher resolution metrics to inform trial design, endpoint selection and patient stratification, as well as whether a treatment effect is detected.
The StrivePD ecosystem draws data directly from Apple’s Movement Disorder API, which provides a power-efficient approach to measuring and recording tremors and dyskinetic symptoms common in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Rune Labs values users’ personal information and privacy and takes appropriate steps to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, misuse, or destruction. Users’ personal information and privacy is protected and governed by Rune Labs’ Information Security Management System.
MacDailyNews Note: More info about Rune Labs here.
https://www.runelabs.io/
More info about the StrivePD app via Apple’s App Store here.
https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/strivepd/id1275051699?platform=appleWatch
https://macdailynews.com/2022/06/13/apple-watch-gets-fda-clearance-to-track-parkinsons-symptoms/
Apple Music, Apple Arcade to generate over $8 billion in revenue by 2025 – J.P. Morgan
Monday, June 13, 2022 12:55 pm
Apple’s revenue from its Apple Arcade and Apple Music services is expected to jump 36% to $8.2 billion by 2025, J.P.Morgan said on Monday, as Apple taps its 1.8 billion and growing user base to drive subscription services.
Reuters:
The two services are likely to have a combined subscriber base of about 180 million by 2025 – 110 million for music and 70 million for gaming – boosted by the rapid spread of the internet and a booming gaming industry, according to JPM analysts, led by Samik Chatterjee.
Apple Music, which was launched in 2015 and is the second-biggest music-streaming service after Spotify Technology, is expected to account for a bigger chunk of that revenue, raking in about $7 billion by 2025, the brokerage said.
Apple Arcade, the gaming subscription service launched in 2019, is estimated to pull in $1.2 billion.
The company does not give a sales breakup for gaming and music services but the overall segment, which includes App Store, Apple TV+, Arcade and Apple Music, reported revenue of $19.82 billion for the March quarter. The business is seen as Apple’s engine for expansion.
MacDailyNews Take: For some perspective, if they were a separate company with $8.2 billion in combined revenue, Apple Music + Apple Arcade alone, would rank No.423 on this year’s Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations.
https://macdailynews.com/2022/06/13/apple-music-apple-arcade-to-generate-over-8-billion-in-revenue-by-2025-j-p-morgan/
Apple *SIZE* #darkpool activity ~ 2.10 Million Shares at $133.66
By: Money Flow Mel | June 13, 2022
• $AAPL SIZE #darkpool activity ~ 2.10 million shares at $133.66.
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Apple Music to Reach $7 Billion of Revenues by 2025 - J.P. Morgan
By: Investing.com | June 13, 2022
J.P. Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee has reflected on Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) revenue opportunities in the video gaming and music sectors.
The analyst sees Apple Arcade - a video game subscription service offered by the company - contributing $1.2 billion in revenue for the services by 2025.
“We forecast Apple Arcade subscribers to expand rapidly, led by the ramp in popular titles, leading to an estimated 70 mn subscribers by 2025,” Chatterjee told clients in a note.
Similarly, the analyst estimates that Apple Music will continue to maintain its position as the 2nd largest player in the streaming market.
“We estimate the addressable revenue opportunity for steaming revenues will be around $55 bn in 2025, led by a subscriber count of around ~900 mn subscribers. Interestingly, while most music streaming companies continue to see growth, the impact of a wider competitive landscape is starting to moderate growth for the largest incumbent companies, Apple Music included, in recent years at the expense of the most recent entrants,” the analyst added.
Chatterjee sees Apple Music reaching $7 billion of revenue by 2025, fueled by rising penetration, despite moderation in growth.
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Futures are down big Apple down big $50 target price
Apple (AAPL) eek, 136-137 big spot, lose it then @ 132.60 last bastion of support
By: Options Mike | June 12, 2022
• $AAPL eek, 136-137 big spot, lose it then @ 132.60 last bastion of support.
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Expect free fall busting through support with ease. Elites must be dumping this 16 billion share fluffed fantasy.
$AAPL 2020 Low volume-weighted average price (VWAP) at ~$125 below
By: TrendSpider | June 11, 2022
• $AAPL 2020 Low VWAP at ~$125 below.
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Let’s see who’s the winner By the end of the year!!
True, I’m just waiting for Joe To Say Ultra —— Again and Again! Haha only in the USA USAA
Biden says I did this
Apple stock is trash worthless 16 billion shares that’s ridiculous. This stock is played out. Buckle up for this bear market It’s going to get very ugly. Billionaires are running scared Something is happening It’s not good Short everything
HaHa! Please be us! 420 PPP! $AAPL Premium IOS Edit Unsend Text Super Cool, idk I can’t complain, I Should Buy More If We See Lower, Go MoMo’$ Thank you for the heads up on the other ticker by the way
Apple's (AAPL) "Outperform" Rating Reaffirmed at Oppenheimer
By: MarketBeat | June 8, 2022
• Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL - Get Rating)'s stock had its "outperform" rating reaffirmed by investment analysts at Oppenheimer in a research report issued on Wednesday. They presently have a $190.00 target price on the iPhone maker's stock. Oppenheimer's target price indicates a potential upside of 27.77% from the company's current price...
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Recession then depression coming nobody will be able to afford Apple Products All these billionaires are done Bankruptcy coming Time for new billionaires WOOHOOOOOO WOOHOOOOOO
What happened? BAHAHAHA APPLE $50 TARGET PRICE
It’s gonna be bad for markets,YEAR OF THE CAT
Tomorrow CPI number out take note of it. Market Uncertainty.
It’s only going up today because no one’s buying it Except for they’re trading desk The minute you buy it’ll go down lmfao Competition coming in Tesla phone
Red Apple Elon Musk tesla phone will take over
Bad Apple15 years of the stock market going up it’s done. We could be looking at over five years going down maybe 10
Apple is worthless watch in a few months It’s gonna get worse and worse and worse for the stock market Apple Amazon Google finish.That’s the reason they’re all splitting
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