

Here are the Steve Jobs product announcement stock action:




Funny how some things never change . . .


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3 Responses to “Apple’s Stock Price Post New Product Announcements”

  1. Bam_Man says:

    Looks like classic “Buy the rumor, sell the news” type behavior, with the exception of the original iPhone launch. Which makes sense, since that was the truly TRANSFORMATIONAL product.

  2. Thomaspin says:

    Gruber is so lonely now ….

  3. Livermore Shimervore says:

    Apple branded TV’s will be big sellers and will add even more value to the company. Largely because Apple has become entirely a lifestyle brand. Their smartphone and tablet hardware is falling further behind Samsung, Moto, Google and HTC with each new launch. Apple products are no longer value proposition, meanwhile with Android 4.3, Google has bridged the software gap. I can tell you it is silky smooth and dead bolt reliable, way better and more flexible than iOS7. A year ago Apple had 90% lock on tablets, barely a year later not remotely close.
    The stock price falling after launches is consequence of those who expect more always being disappointed by Apple’s very transparent sand-bagging of device features merely to sell an interim phone less than year later with the missing features. But it’s not long before these inital stock-lowering let downs are ultimately drowned-out by tidal waves of consumers who buy Apple products in lockstep from one device to the next, they really don’t care that their being charged last year’s tech at next year’s price. Kind of like how people bought Windows desktops for home use, over and over again, when Apple clearly had the better product. Performance/value relative to the competition’s offering is no longer relevant to the majority of Apple products consumers — they want what everyone else they know has. Largely because they are about tech convenience and not chasing cutting edge capablities. An astonishing number, something like past 30%, believed the Iphone 4 was a 4G device when it really was only a 3G phone — the last *premium* 3G phone you could still buy at BestBuy that summer. What this means is that Apple simply can’t have it both ways. If they want to bring in the record revenue/profit numbers they have to downgrade the tech, the best example of this is the mini Ipad with an inferior screen but still with a $100 higher price than the competition. You can only pull that off when you have company that’s become the designer jeans of gadgets. If Apple want to please the ‘experts’ after each launch it will only mean smaller margins when the masses come into the Apple store for their lockstep fix.