Notes From All Over -- The Saturday Lockdown Edition -- Nothing About The Bakken -- May 30, 2020

Apple: the Apple Store in Southlake, TX, is now "open" in accordance with their re-opening announcements. Most business is done outside the store. Appears to be working very, very well.

Apple: huge pent-up demand.

Sold out: as posted previously, iPads are sold out at Costco, and have been for about a week. Obviously a shortage of parts, and a huge pent-up demand. 

Apple: continues to innovate. It's interesting. Before the smart phones, most of us grew up on ATT beige desktop or wall phones. I used those phones for thirty, maybe forty years. In all that time, I am unaware of any major upgrade. Pick up a humongous receiver; dial on a rotary dial; listen for the dial tone, etc. That was it: no innovation for decades. Now, with smart phones, and particularly Apple, upgrades often on the operating system. Amazing. In hindsight, one wonders what ATT was doing all those years. Here's another example.

Apple: forty percent of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway mutual fund is AAPL.

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The phones from my mother's home, photos courtesy of my youngest sister, Jan:

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The Lego Page

Lego: Disney Castle out of stock. Pretty amazing. This set was released in 2016. It's more than mature. No reason to expect this model to be "temporarily unavailable." One wonders how many fathers are buying this set for their six-year-olds in lieu of going to Disneyland this summer.

Available at Amazon for nearly $700, once you factor in taxes, et al.