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Power and Agoura have one thing in common, their price predictions have ALWAYS been wrong.
If they actually invested as they urge other to, they have to be broke.
Apple (AAPL): Technical Analysis and Price Forecast
By: Bruce Powers | January 25, 2024
• Apple stock shows early signs of hitting resistance while Microsoft, a market leader, hits a $3 trillion market valuation, but a potential short-term pullback may happen soon.
Apple Inc. (AAPL)
From a technical perspective Apple stock has led the major indices as it broke out to new highs in June of last year. The indices have only recently made new highs. A new record high for Apple was reached in July at $198.23. A retracement to test support around the 200-Day MA followed in October.
Then again it was tested twice as support this month thereby setting up a double bottom reversal pattern. The subsequent rally off the lows started with an enthusiastic upside gap. Apple stock has since rallied to a high of $196.38 as of Wednesday, where it looks like it might encounter some resistance.
Apple Earnings on February 1
Apple reports 1Q earnings on Thursday, February 1. The company just had their first weekend of pre orders for their new Apple Vision Pro headsets priced at $3,499. There are reports that pre orders have sold out. Depending on whether demand stays strong, the long-term potential is a new product revenue stream for the company.
Apple Has Reached a Possible Resistance Zone
Given Wednesday’s price action Apple stock is at risk of a pullback or consolidation. It completed a 78.6% Fibonacci retracement on Monday and made a slightly higher high on Wednesday before closing weak, near the low of the day. A pullback to at least the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement at $190.24 would not be surprising as the 50-Day MA is close by at $190.53. Nevertheless, a new high target is at $204.91, That is a 127.2% Fibonacci extension of the most recent correction.
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Bull of the Day: Apple (AAPL)
By: Zacks Investment Research | January 25, 2024
Apple (AAPL) stock ended 2023 and started 2024 on a downbeat note as some analysts raced to outsmart themselves with various downgrades of the iPhone maker based on concerns about slowing growth in China and other headwinds.
Yet, Apple is up around 8% since January 5 and approaching its mid-December records heading into its Q1 FY24 earnings release on February 1. Apple’s recent wave of upward earnings revisions help AAPL earn a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
Apple is certainly no hidden gem, but who cares? The moral of our story today is that it pays to keep it simple and buy shares of one of the true Wall Street titans as part of a healthy, well-rounded portfolio.
Apple is far more than an iPhone maker these days. Plus, AAPL is trading above all of its key short-term and long-term moving averages.
Recent Negativity
A few notable analysts downgraded Apple stock over the last month or so. Their concerns focused on slowing iPhone sales, with a particular focus on China, among wider fears about an increasingly saturated high-end smartphone market. There are also constant worries about legal battles regarding its App Store and more.
Apple is facing mounting competition from rival Huawei Technologies in the world’s second largest economy. AAPL is also suffering setbacks in the Chinese market, as are many other companies across various industries, due to the broad-based economic slowdown in China. Geopolitical fears play their part as well.
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AAPL’s overall sales declined YoY during the trailing four quarters, with total FY23 revenue down 2.8% (its third YoY decline in the last eight years).
Despite the mounting concerns about Apple’s business in China and its economy more broadly, AAPL’s revenue in China only slipped by roughly 2.2% in fiscal 2023 (vs. Apple’s wider 2.8% drop). Apple’s total iPhone revenue fell by over 2% last year, and smartphone sales climbed by 2.8% in the fourth quarter.
The iPhone and Beyond
Apple’s branding power remains nearly unmatched and its constant cycles of new phones and devices keep people wanting more. Many consumers upgrade to new iPhones and other devices habitually, even if there isn’t a game-changing difference, and would never think of leaving the Apple universe.
Apple sold $200 billion worth of iPhones in FY23 up from $142 billion in FY19. Apple’s long-term growth case is not difficult to make in a world full of smartphone addicts, especially as its subscriptions grow within its key services unit.
Chief executive Tim Cook has focused on transforming Apple beyond an iPhone maker by continually making money from its loyal and growing customer base. Apple’s services segment climbed by 9% in FY23 to account for 22% of sales, making it by far the biggest segment outside of iPhone.
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Apple said last quarter that it had an installed base of “over 2 billion active devices,” which “continues to grow at a nice pace.” AAPL’s services efforts go beyond its App Store and include Netflix and Spotify competitors, a subscription news offering, Apple Wallet, a video game platform, digital workout classes, and more.
AAPL finished its most recent period with “over 1 billion paid subscriptions across” its services, marking nearly double the number it had three years ago. On top of that, Apple has brought more of its chips in-house and it is quietly spending heavily on rolling out AI features in its smartphones and other devices.
Near-Term Outlook
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) reported upbeat results on January 18 and provided strong guidance that signals a return to growth for the smartphone market. Apple’s revenue is projected to climb by 3% in FY24 and jump 6% higher in FY25 to reach $418.36 billion vs. $383.29 billion in FY23.
Meanwhile, its adjusted earnings are projected to grow by 8% in FY24 and another 9% higher next year to come in at $7.19 per share. This would come on top of marginal EPS growth last year.
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Apple has topped earnings every period over the last five years outside of a small miss in the first quarter of FY23.
Better yet, Apple’s earnings revisions have trended higher over the last month for FY24 and FY25, with its most accurate/most recent estimates solidly above the already-improved consensus. The bottom line positivity helps it capture a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) right now.
Performance, Technical Levels & Valuation
AAPL stock is up around 8% since January 5 and it trades 6% below its average Zacks price target and around 2% under its mid-December records. The rebound took Apple back above its 50-day and 21-day moving averages and from oversold RSI levels to above neutral.
Apple shares have climbed by roughly 1,000% in the last 10 years to top Microsoft (MSFT) and blow away the Zacks Tech sector’s 275% run. Apple is only up 36% in the past three years vs. Microsoft’s 75%.
AAPL has also underperformed Tech during the last 12 months, which means it might be less overheated than some might assume.
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Apple is currently trading above its very long-term 21-month moving average and it appears far from overheated by historical RSI standards.
Valuation-wise, Apple trades at a roughly 20% discount to its five-year highs at 28.8X forward 12-month earnings and not too far above its median or Tech.
Bottom Line
Apple returned $25 billion to shareholders last quarter via buybacks and dividends. The firm is also still investing heavily in future growth endeavors such as artificial intelligence, EVs, and beyond.
Some investors might decide they would rather attempt to find the next Apple. But sometimes betting on the favorite works better than going with the underdog.
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~sold the 1/26 $200 calls @ market open for .21c :)
Reloaded same calls again just now @.16c
Is Apple going to buy any company's in the near future? Is Apple going to completely get out of China & China labor?
WHEN YOU HAVE FAKE MARKETS PROPED UP BY
ENDLESS MONEY PRINTING....VALUATIONS ARE OUT THE DOOR.
REALITY NOW IS A FOG !!
Apple $AAPL is spending a lot of money on Research and Development
By: Savvy Trader | January 22, 2024
• Apple $AAPL is spending a lot of money on Research and Development
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CHINA FINANCIAL COLLAPSE UNDERWAY!!!!!!
OH MY!!!!!!!!!!
What were the clues for an $AAPL bounce this week?
By: TrendSpider | January 20, 2024
• What were the clues for an $AAPL bounce this week?
200 day SMA support
Volume shelf support
Higher-low double bottom
$BAC analyst upgrade was the icing on the cake.
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~yeah some minuscule amount
Did you pay any fees on the trades ?
Apple $AAPL $8.19 Million Calls with some ER flow
By: FLOWrensics | January 19, 2024
• $AAPL with some ER flow.
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$AAPL $1.1 Million ATM Put The expiration is short-term on this order, so the whale is expecting downside soon Vol > OI so it is being bought to open
By: Cheddar Flow | January 19, 2024
• $AAPL $1.1M ATM Put
The expiration is short-term on this order, so the whale is expecting downside soon
Vol > OI so it is being bought to open
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~sold the 1/26 $195 calls @.44c
~hopefully a nice gap up in the morn…AAPL
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF ARBITRAGE ?!? $AAPL LMAO
(okay, I'll lower my voice if you stop yelling) ...It's all RELATIVE.
P.S.: It appears the market disagrees w/your P/E interpretation!
~ppl will still will buy that silly watch, my wife loves hers.
~can we get a close at or above MA(50) pretty please with suga sugga on top AAPL
$AAPL, $MSFT, & $META had the most bullish flow today
By: Cheddar Flow | January 18, 2024
• $AAPL, $MSFT, & $META had the most bullish flow today
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Analyst: Apple (AAPL) Stock Boasts 20% Upside
By: Schaeffer's Investment Research | January 18, 2024
• BofA Global Research upgraded APPL to "buy"
• The company also announced an update concerning its Apple Watch
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), the former most valuable publicly traded company in the world, is getting a boost today thanks to a bull note from BofA Global Research. The analyst upgraded the Big Tech stock to "buy" from "neutral" and raised its price target to $225 from $208, implying a 20% upside for AAPL on expectations of rebounding iPhone sales.
This bull note follows yesterday's news that Apple has once again been banned from selling current version of its Apple Watch that are equipped with blood oxygen sensors, after medical device maker Masimo filed a patent-infringement case. Early reports indicate that Apple plans to disable the feature.
Last seen 2.3% higher at $186.81, Apple stock is attempting to overcome a 5.1% year-to-date deficit. After hitting an all-time high of $199.62 on Dec. 14, the security lost more than 7% over the following month to fall below recent support at its 40-day moving average. However, AAPL still boasts a more than 35% year-over-year gain.
Options traders are betting on more moves higher, too. Already today, more than 183,000 bullish bets have crossed the tape, which is triple the intraday average amount. Most popular is the January 187.50 call, followed by the 190 call in the same monthly series.
Circling back to analyst sentiment, covering brokerages are overwhelmingly bullish, but there remains room for a shift in sentiment. This is per the 10 of 28 analysts that still rate Apple stock a tepid "hold" or worse.
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AAPL REMOVED THE OXYGEN SENSOR FROM THE I-WATCH DUE TO LITIGATION.
ONE WOULD THINK IT'S A NGATIVE FOR THE WATCH !! AMAZING REACTION !!
Not going to make an Apple prediction like you predicted Nvidia going to $350 a month ago?
LET'S SEE NOW ; AT 225 AAPL PE WOULD BE WHAT 40+
WHAT A BARGAIN !!!
*Bank of America upgrades $AAPL, expects AI and Vision Pro to drive upside - Analysts also hiked the price target by $17 to $225 per share, reflecting higher iPhone and Services estimates.
Apple $AAPL with another important test of its 200D moving average. Will it hold as support?
By: Barchart | January 17, 2024
• Apple $AAPL with another important test of its 200D moving average. Will it hold as support?
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Form 25-NSE - Notification filed by national security exchange to report the removal from listing and registration of matured, redeemed or retired securities
Apple previews new entertainment experiences launching with Apple Vision Pro
January 16 2024 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
Users can turn any space into a personal theater, enjoy more than 150 3D movies, and experience the future of entertainment with Apple Immersive Video
Apple® today announced a series of groundbreaking entertainment experiences that will be available on Apple Vision Pro™ beginning Friday, February 2. With more pixels than a 4K TV for each eye, combined with an advanced Spatial Audio system, Vision Pro enables users to watch new shows and films from top streaming services including Apple Originals from Apple TV+®, transport themselves to stunning landscapes with Environments, and enjoy all-new spatial experiences that were never possible before, like Encounter Dinosaurs.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240116444879/en/
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Apple wins as patent tribunal decision upheld, Masimo loses appeal
Friday, January 12, 2024 1:16 pm
Apple’s victories at an administrative tribunal that voided two patents Masimo Corp. alleged the Apple Watch infringes will stand, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled this week.
Maura O’Malley for The Global Legal Post:
Apple had argued successfully in its inter parties review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) that the claims were unpatentable because, among other things, it would have been obvious over the prior art.
The opinion by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on 10 January, affirms this, with circuit judges Lourie, Prost and Reyna finding Masimo’s arguments to the contrary “unpersuasive” and two claims in Masimo’s patent relating to blood oxygen measurement unpatentable for obviousness.
The patent covers pulse oximeter technology that measures oxygen in the blood used in some models of Apple watches.
Apple is facing an import ban on certain models of Apple Watches after the International Trade Commission found in October that it had violated U.S. laws by incorporating Masimo’s patented light-based pulse oximetry technology in its products.
Apple is appealing the ruling, and as of 27 December, the ban had been temporarily paused allowing sales of watches to resume in Apple stores and on its website in the US.
MacDailyNews Take: Have a nice day, Masimo.
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Apple Place your bets - Breakdown or Gap Fill?
By: TrendSpider | January 12, 2024
• Place your bets - Breakdown or Gap Fill?
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Apple iPhone intact and working just fine after 16,000-foot fall from Alaska Air flight
Monday, January 8, 2024 11:23 am
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An Apple iPhone has been recovered intact and working just fine after 16,000-foot fall from an Alaska Air flight in which it was sucked out of a Boeing 737 Max that suffered a fuselage panel failure.
Seanathan Bates (@SeanSafyre) via X:
Found an iPhone on the side of the road… Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact!
When I called it in, Zoe at @NTSB said it was the SECOND phone to be found. No door yet😅
Kate Duffy for Bloomberg News:
Among the harrowing details of the blown-off fuselage panel that triggered a sudden decompression event on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, one revelation seemed to defy the laws of physics: one of the mobile phones that had been sucked out of the Boeing Co. 737 Max 9 jet’s cabin remained in functioning condition after a 16,000-foot tumble.
A new-generation Apple Inc. iPhone landed intact, unlocked and with hours of battery life remaining on a Portland, Oregon roadside, according to a post on X by a user calling himself Seanathan Bates, who said he discovered the device. The screen showed an email from Alaska Airlines about a baggage claim for the flight, based on Bates’ photos.
The phone was in airplane mode, Bates said in a TikTok video. “It was still pretty clean, no scratches on it, sitting under a bush and it didn’t have a screenlock on it,” he said.
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed at a briefing on Sunday that one phone was found on the side of a road and another in a yard. The people have handed in both of the devices, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told reporters.
MacDailyNews Take: This isn’t the first time an Apple iPhone has survived a fall from great height:
• iPhone plummets 11,000 feet from an airplane, still works – August 23, 2021
• Woman drops her iPhone 2,500 feet out of a plane – it still works! – August 8, 2016
• Texas man finds his iPhone that fell 9,300 feet from plane – it still works! – July 31, 2015
• iPhone 4 plunges 1,000 feet from airplane – still works perfectly – March 23, 2011
https://macdailynews.com/2024/01/08/apple-iphone-intact-and-working-just-fine-after-16000-foot-fall-from-alaska-air-flight/
Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2
January 08 2024 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
The era of spatial computing is here — pre-orders begin Friday, January 19
Apple® today announced Apple Vision Pro™ will be available beginning Friday, February 2, at all U.S. Apple Store® locations and the U.S. Apple Store online. Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that transforms how people work, collaborate, connect, relive memories, and enjoy entertainment. Vision Pro seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world and unlocks powerful spatial experiences in visionOS™, controlled by the most natural and intuitive inputs possible — a user’s eyes, hands, and voice. An all-new App Store® provides users with access to more than 1 million compatible apps across iOS and iPadOS, as well as new experiences that take advantage of the unique capabilities of Vision Pro. Pre-orders for Apple Vision Pro begin Friday, January 19, at 5 a.m. PST.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240108013917/en/
“The era of spatial computing has arrived,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Apple Vision Pro is the most advanced consumer electronics device ever created. Its revolutionary and magical user interface will redefine how we connect, create, and explore.”
A Revolutionary Operating System and User Interface
Apple Vision Pro is powered by visionOS, which is built on the foundation of decades of engineering innovation in macOS®, iOS, and iPadOS®. visionOS delivers powerful spatial experiences, unlocking new opportunities at work and at home. Featuring a brand-new three-dimensional user interface and input system controlled entirely by a user’s eyes, hands, and voice, navigation feels magical. Intuitive gestures allow users to interact with apps by simply looking at them, tapping their fingers to select, flicking their wrist to scroll, or using a virtual keyboard or dictation to type. With Siri®, users can quickly open or close apps, play media, and more.
Users can also immerse themselves in Environments — dynamic, beautiful landscapes like Haleakala, Joshua Tree, and Yosemite national parks, and even the surface of the moon — to help them focus or reduce clutter in busy spaces. With Environments, a user’s world can grow beyond the dimensions of a physical room. With a twist of the Digital Crown®, users can control how present or immersed they are in an environment.
Extraordinary Experiences
Apple Vision Pro brings a new dimension to powerful, personal computing by changing the way users interact with their apps. The three-dimensional interface frees apps from the boundaries of a display so they can appear side by side at any scale, providing the ultimate workspace and creating an infinite canvas for multitasking and collaborating.
Since visionOS leverages existing developer frameworks, more than 1 million familiar apps across iOS and iPadOS are available on Apple Vision Pro and automatically work with the new input system. Vision Pro also has an all-new App Store where users can find apps that deliver spatial computing experiences unlike any other platform. Apps can be arranged anywhere and scaled to the perfect size, all while allowing the user to stay present in their space.
An infinite canvas for productivity: With key productivity and collaboration apps like Fantastical, Freeform™, JigSpace, apps from Microsoft 365, and Slack, Apple Vision Pro is an ideal productivity tool for everyday tasks. Apps can appear side by side at any scale for incredible multitasking, and with support for Magic Keyboard® and Magic Trackpad®, users can create the perfect workspace. With Mac® Virtual Display, users can even bring the powerful capabilities of their Mac into Vision Pro, creating an enormous, private, and portable 4K display, ideal for pro workflows.
The ultimate entertainment experience: Apple Vision Pro features ultra-high-resolution displays that deliver more pixels than a 4K TV for each eye, enabling users to watch movies and TV shows from Apple TV+®, Disney+, Max, and other services on a screen that feels 100 feet wide with support for HDR content. Within the Apple TV® app, users can access more than 150 3D titles with incredible depth wherever they are. Vision Pro also introduces Apple Immersive Video™, a remarkable new entertainment format pioneered by Apple that puts users inside the action with 180-degree, three-dimensional 8K recordings captured with Spatial Audio. Users can also enjoy new interactive experiences like Encounter Dinosaurs.
New gaming experiences: Players can access games on the App Store, including more than 250 titles on Apple Arcade®. Hit games like NBA 2K24 Arcade Edition and Sonic Dream Team can be played on a screen as large as they want with incredible audio and support for popular game controllers. New spatial games, including Game Room, What the Golf?, and Super Fruit Ninja, take advantage of the powerful capabilities of Apple Vision Pro to transform the space around players, offering unique and engaging gameplay experiences.
Memories Brought to Life
Apple Vision Pro enables users to capture and relive their favorite memories in entirely new ways. Spatial photos and videos transport users back to a special moment in time, and Spatial Audio makes the experience incredibly immersive. When users are on the go, they can capture spatial video on their iPhone® 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max and relive them on Vision Pro. Users can also view all their photos and videos at a life-size scale with brilliant color and spectacular detail, including Panoramas that expand and wrap around the user, making them feel like they are right where it was taken.
FaceTime Becomes Spatial
FaceTime® on Apple Vision Pro takes advantage of the space around the user so that everyone on a call appears life-size, while Spatial Audio makes it sound like each person’s voice comes from the location of their tile. If a user is wearing Vision Pro while on FaceTime, they appear as their Persona, while others joining from a Mac, iPad®, or iPhone will appear in a tile.
Persona is an authentic spatial representation of an Apple Vision Pro user that enables others on a call to see their facial expressions and hand movements — all in real time.1 Using machine learning techniques, a Persona can be created in just minutes using Vision Pro. Personas also work in third-party videoconferencing apps including Zoom, Cisco Webex, and Microsoft Teams.
Breakthrough Design
Apple Vision Pro builds on Apple innovation and experience designing high-performance products like Mac, iPhone, and wearables like Apple Watch®, culminating in the most advanced personal electronics device ever. An astonishing amount of technology is packed into a beautiful, compact design that utilizes the most advanced materials possible to achieve ambitious goals for performance, mobility, and wearability.
Apple Vision Pro is designed as a modular system so users can personalize their fit. A singular piece of three-dimensionally formed, laminated glass gently curves around the user’s face and flows into the custom aluminum alloy frame. The Light Seal is made of a soft textile and comes in a range of shapes and sizes, flexing to conform to a user’s face for a precise fit. Flexible straps ensure audio remains close to the user’s ears, while the included Solo Knit Band and Dual Loop Band allow users to find the optimal fit for them. For those with vision correction needs, ZEISS Optical Inserts are available with a prescription or as readers that magnetically attach to Vision Pro, allowing users to take full advantage of the display’s incredible sharpness and clarity.2
Unrivaled Innovation
Apple Vision Pro is designed to deliver phenomenal compute performance in a compact wearable form factor. Featuring a breakthrough ultra-high-resolution display system built on top of Apple silicon, Vision Pro uses micro-OLED technology to pack 23 million pixels into two displays, each the size of a postage stamp, with wide color and high dynamic range. This technological breakthrough, combined with custom lenses that enable incredible sharpness and clarity, and advanced Spatial Audio, delivers jaw-dropping experiences.
Apple Vision Pro also features a high-performance eye tracking system that uses high-speed cameras and a ring of LEDs that project invisible light patterns onto the user’s eyes for responsive, intuitive input. And to help the user stay connected to the people around them, Apple designed a groundbreaking new feature called EyeSight™. When a person approaches someone wearing Vision Pro, the device looks transparent — letting the user see them while also displaying the user’s eyes. When a user is immersed in an Environment or using an app, EyeSight gives visual cues to others about what the user is focused on.
The breakthrough display, advanced audio experiences, high-performance eye tracking system, and more are powered by Apple silicon in a unique dual-chip design. The M2 chip delivers powerful standalone performance, while the brand-new R1 chip processes input from 12 cameras, five sensors, and six microphones to ensure that content feels like it is appearing right in front of the user’s eyes.
Privacy and Security at Its Core
Apple Vision Pro offers industry-leading privacy and security. Optic ID™ is a new authentication system that analyzes a user’s iris to unlock Vision Pro, autofill passwords, and complete payments with Apple Pay®. Where a user looks stays private while navigating Vision Pro, and eye tracking information is not shared with Apple, third-party apps, or websites. EyeSight also includes a visual indicator that makes it clear to others when a user is capturing a spatial photo or video.
Accessibility in visionOS
As with all Apple products, powerful accessibility features have been built right into visionOS. Key accessibility features like VoiceOver, Zoom, Switch Control, Guided Access®, and more have been reimagined for spatial computing. Users can interact with Apple Vision Pro entirely with their eyes, hands, or voice, or any combination that works best for them. They can select a preferred input method such as their eyes, finger, or wrist using Pointer Control, pause on an element of visionOS for a few seconds to simulate a tap using Dwell Control, or simply use voice commands for activities across Vision Pro using Voice Control. If input from both eyes is not an option, visionOS also allows eye tracking with one dominant eye.
Apple Vision Pro and the Environment
Apple Vision Pro is designed with the environment in mind, with 100 percent recycled rare earth elements in all magnets and 100 percent recycled tin soldering and gold plating in multiple printed circuit boards. The frame and battery enclosure contain 100 percent recycled aluminum, and the Light Seal and Solo Knit Band are each made with over 70 percent recycled yarn. Vision Pro meets Apple’s high standards for energy efficiency and is free of mercury, brominated flame retardants, PVC, and beryllium. The packaging is 100 percent fiber-based, bringing Apple closer to its goal of eliminating plastics in all packaging by 2025.
Today, Apple is carbon neutral for its global corporate operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon neutral across the entire manufacturing supply chain and life cycle of every product.
Pricing and Availability
Apple Vision Pro will be available starting at $3,499 (U.S.) with 256GB of storage. Pre-orders for Apple Vision Pro will begin on Friday, January 19, at 5 a.m. PST, with availability beginning Friday, February 2.
Apple Vision Pro will be available at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the U.S. Apple Store online.
ZEISS Optical Inserts — Readers will be available for $99 (U.S.), and ZEISS Optical Inserts — Prescription will be available for $149 (U.S.).
Apple Vision Pro comes with a Solo Knit Band and Dual Loop Band — giving users two options for the fit that works best for them. Apple Vision Pro also includes a Light Seal, two Light Seal Cushions, an Apple Vision Pro Cover for the front of the device, Polishing Cloth, Battery, USB-C Charge Cable, and USB-C Power Adapter.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s five software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.
1 Persona is available in beta.
2 A valid prescription is required. Not all prescriptions are supported. Vision correction accessories are sold separately. ZEISS Optical Inserts are only available to purchase online.
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You trying to say Apple is not going to plummet to 161? 😁
Very, very, true. They can't make money legitimately. They're too stupid, so they have to scam.
Apple 200 day SMA + Volume shelf support = The perfect recipe for a bounce!
By: TrendSpider | January 8, 2024
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All these so-called analysts are scammers talking Apple down so they can re-load. CNBC is just as bad!.
Apple Watch saves Delaware coed’s life after she passes out from carbon monoxide poisoning
Tuesday, January 2, 2024 3:08 pm
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A Delaware coed’s Apple Watch saved her life after she passed out from carbon monoxide poisoning – an often fatal tragedy.
Stephanie Stahl for CBS News Philadelphia:
“It was extremely scary,” Natalie Nasatka said.
Nasatka is starting the new year grateful to be alive.
“I ended up losing consciousness,” she said.
She’s describing a bout of carbon monoxide poisoning that happened in her Smyrna, Delaware apartment.
“I was feeling extremely exhausted,” Nasatka said. “My vision was getting blurry.”
Before she passed out, Nasatka reached for her watch. She hit the SOS button, putting out an emergency call to 911.
“When I heard the firefighters yell out ‘fire department’ and they yanked me out of bed, I just started crying and saying ‘I want to live. I want to live,'” she said…
Nasatka, who’s a student, said she was lucky that help arrived quickly and she was revived in an ambulance with oxygen.
MacDailyNews Take: Another life saved, thanks to Apple Watch!
If you don’t have a carbon monoxide detector, you can find good ones on Amazon for under $40.
https://macdailynews.com/2024/01/02/apple-watch-saves-delaware-coeds-life-after-she-passes-out-from-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/
Driver flees scene after Crash Detection alerts police
Wesley Hilliard | Jan 03, 2024
Crash Detection on Apple Watch can alert authorities if you've been in an accident, but one Arizona man didn't stick around for help to arrive.
Apple Watch Crash Detection has been a somewhat controversial feature due to accidental activations from sports or roller coasters. However, it has proven to be a useful feature when actually activated by a crash.
An Arizona man was in a car accident, according to a report from Fort Worth Star-Telegram, but he was nowhere to be found when police arrived at the scene. The driver's Apple Watch sent a message to authorities after the vehicle rolled over, but the man had departed the scene.
Twenty rescuers and a helicopter began searching for the missing driver. Several hours later, a 30-year-old man was found walking about 5 miles away.
The man had minor injuries and claimed to be searching for help. He was reunited with his family.
When Crash Detection is activated, it alerts the wearer that emergency services will be contacted if Emergency SOS isn't dismissed. The device sends a message and the device's current location, which is how the vehicle was found.
Had the man remained with his vehicle, he'd have been helped much sooner. It isn't revealed why the man couldn't use his iPhone or Apple Watch to get help instead of walking miles up the road.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/03/driver-flees-scene-after-crash-detection-alerts-police?utm_medium=rss
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Apple’s $85bn-a-year services business faces legal reckoning
By: Financial Times | January 2, 2024
• Landmark EU regulation and crucial US court cases due in 2024 will test the tech company
Apple faces a legal reckoning in 2024, with a series of regulatory decisions by US and EU authorities over the coming months set to determine the future of its $85bn-a-year services business.
The biggest hit to the iPhone maker could come from a US antitrust trial against Google, where it emerged that the fellow tech giant had paid more than $26bn in 2021 to make its search engine the default on Apple devices and other smartphones and browsers.
Should Google lose the case, it could be forced to stop making regular payments to Apple, which Eric Seufert, an independent analyst, estimates as being worth a quarter of annual revenues earned by Apple’s services arm.
Meanwhile, Apple and other tech giants face increasing scrutiny from the Biden administration over concerns about the dominance of its App Store, which it is already being forced to change in the EU due to legislation designed to rein in the power of Big Tech.
Together, the legal and regulatory actions spanning two of Apple’s biggest markets represent the biggest threat to the company’s business in years.
Its services arm, which includes income from the App Store, video streaming arm and Apple Music, has steadily increased as a proportion of the company’s total revenues, which is still dominated by sales of devices such as the iPhone.
The Google trial, seen as the most significant antitrust monopoly trial in more than 25 years in Washington, will hear closing arguments in May. Should Google lose, it will almost certainly file an appeal, but such a decision would raise questions about how the two tech giants work with one another into the future.
“I think the judge was intrigued with that issue during the trial,” said Bill Kovacic, a former Federal Trade Commission chair and competition professor of law and policy at George Washington University Law School. “The question in the background was: ‘if Apple is going to have an auction for that prime placement, what should Google have done?’”
The White House is at the same time intensifying its efforts to tackle what it regards as excessive corporate power. Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust unit since November 2021, has made no secret of his ambition to bring cases against the biggest US companies.
His department has been probing Apple’s App Store policies for years and is now, according to Kanter, “firing on all cylinders”. The window for him to bring a case is closing, however, as the US presidential election and a potential change in administration loom. The DoJ did not respond to a request for comment on the Apple probe.
Regulators, businesses and enforcers have for years been seeking to pry apart Apple’s iOS ecosystem, a move the tech giant has always insisted would undermine the mobile operating software’s security.
Apple, however, acknowledged recently in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it would have to make changes to its App Store in the EU, due to the bloc’s new Digital Markets Act, which has a March deadline for legal compliance from tech companies.
In the EU, Apple is preparing to allow “sideloading”, which enables iPhone users to bypass its store and download apps from elsewhere.
This will breach, for the first time, the walled-off ecosystem that the company has protected since Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007. Apple has dragged its feet on this issue, since it maintains the practice will create security risks to its system.
Sideloading could have an impact on the App Store, where Apple charges developers as much as a 30 per cent fee on digital purchases. Games account for more than half of that revenue. Google’s Play Store, which charges a similar fee, is also in the spotlight after it lost a landmark trial against Epic Games in California in December.
Apple draws between $6bn and $7bn in commission fees from the App Store globally each quarter, according to Sensor Tower estimates.
Competitors are pushing to earn some of that share and launch rival app stores and payment methods on Apple devices. Microsoft is talking to partners about launching its own mobile store.
Fortnite maker Epic Games, a longtime Apple foe, wants its store on iOS devices and points to its lower 12 per cent fee as an incentive for consumers to switch to its platform.
While Epic broadly lost a lower court judgment into its claims against Apple in 2021, a California judge ordered Apple to put an end to App Store rules that prevent developers from steering customers outside of the store to make purchases. The appeals court upheld that injunction earlier this year. The US Supreme Court will review the case next year.
For investors, gauging the ultimate risk from the raft of regulatory and legal actions across the world is difficult. “I think there’s just a belief that there’s all this noise in the background, and ‘don’t worry about it’,” said Gene Munster, managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management.
Investors, he said, had been “lulled to sleep” by Apple’s initial wins against Epic in particular. “But I think investors should take it seriously.”
Apple declined to comment.
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Apple $AAPL Watching the volume shelf and 200 day SMA sitting at ~$180
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• $AAPL Watching the volume shelf and 200 day SMA sitting at ~$180.
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Agree. Great points. In spite of prior downgrades, AAPL kept chugging along to new highs recently and it will do so again.
Barclay's "analyst" downgraded Apple in 2020 and 2022 as well and his now "reduced" price target went from 161 to 160, lol. Barclay's traders will be buying again soon, if not already. Timing the release on that for the first day back of trading is suspect as well. SMH.
People see through this garbage. No other strategy than to ride out the BS.
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