Headlines -- Monday, July 22, 2024

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Apple: 

• iPhone 17. Note tech specs.
• iPhone 17 SE, will significantly increase size from 4.7 inches to 6.06 inches
• A18 chip like iPhone 16; OLED panel for the first time ever; 6GB to 8GB of LPDDR5 memory, aluminum chassis, and a single rear 48-megapixel camera; price point fo $499 to $549; current model launched in March, 2022 for $429.
• going forward, for long-term Apple uses: it's all about the camera;
• when buying through a telecom provider and buying over two years, price is almost inconsequential for folks who want the best camera available in an iphone
  

Apple:

• devices
• desktop: only at work; no longer needed at home (unless one does a lot of work from home)
  
• laptop: everywhere, all the time -- home, traveling, investing, work, play, college
  
• tablet: a must for college classrooms; staple in one's backpack; bedside
• iPhone: which model -- comes down to one binary choice -- best camera vs don't need the best
• after that (the camera choice), then it almost makes no difference which iPhone one gets
  
• bottom line: college students need three Apple devices: an iPhone, an iPad, and a laptop;

AVGO: "catching up" to Nvidia as a favorite chip stock.

Magnificent 7: going forward. Barron's. 

Covid: vaccinations reduce risk of long Covid. Article in NYTimes. The study was published in the world's premier medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine. Besides being an important article for the scientific crowd this is a huge win for vaccine makers.