Apple Update -- June 25, 2023

Locator: 45046AAPL.

Apple is tracked here.

Apple silicon. 

Apple, TSM, 3nm chips, and all that jazz.

Apple's new series of chips: the "U" chips.

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Crazy talk: $254 price target. The report is based on no stock buybacks.

• Back of the envelope, using Benzinga data which might be different than other source:
• disclaimer: I often make simple arithmetic errors in my calculations.
• 2023: AAPL buys back 3% of its shares = 15,316,000.
• 2024: AAPL buys back 3% of its shares = 14,856,811,000 shares at end of 2024.
• market cap: $4 trillion / 14,854,113,199 shares = $269 vs $254

iPhone 15 upgrade: if accurate, huge.

• iPhone to get the U1 chip?

What does the U1 chip do? Think about this:

Endorsement? Link here.

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Reposting: Operating Systems

Revolutionary, link here.

• Apple is often accused of being evolutionary, not revolutionary.

• That all changed June 5, 2023, with Apple's WWDC.

• Now, over at MacRumors, linked above, we're starting to see how incredibly revolutionary this Vision Pro and visionOS are going to be. 

• So, we have MacOS, iPadOS, iOS (iPhone), watchOS, tvOS, audioOS and now visionOS, operating systems that are free and regularly updated. This is just a partial list; for full list, 96 lines.
• for Microsoft, two: Windows and Xbox gaming.
  

• It appears that MacOS -->watchOS was evolutionary.

• visionOS: revolutionary. 

• The finger-controls seem to me the most difficult user interface to perfect. I wonder if for some of us, there might be a handheld device. 

• From what I've seen, my hunch: the use of mind-expanding drugs (MJ, micro-dosing) will surge. One wonders if there might be mental health applications for the most severely disturbed.

• Chip series, that I know of: M, R, U. 

Steve Jobs could not have dreamt this. Or did he? Did he leave handwritten notes and doodling for Tim? 

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