Do what I tell you to do, not do what I do 
Double standard! 
ā¢ Europe will take Spotifyās (SPOT -0.6%) antitrust complaint against Apple (AAPL +0.6%) seriously, EC competition honcho Margrethe Vestager says.
ā¢ āWe take any complaint we get very serious, because it takes quite an effort for people to post a complaint,ā she tells Bloomberg in an interview. āIt takes much more data, much more investment, so obviously we take it seriously. And we will start looking. What weāll make of it, that of course remains to be seen."
ā¢ She also points to the ādual market situationā created by the two companiesā direct competition in music streaming, and what Spotify calls an āuntenableā situation with the App Store: "If youāre both the host and the competitor, well then how do you behave when you yourself has gained some status in the market?ā
ā¢ Vestager has taken a number of hard lines against U.S. companies previously; in 2015, she ordered Apple to repay $15B in taxes to Ireland.
Need to fine the bad apple 100B. 
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Spotify on Appleās Response to App Store Dispute: āEvery Monopolist Will Suggest They Have Done Nothing Wrongā
@manch blindly side with David. SPOT is exploiting the legal system to increase their revenue and reduce expenses. First force bigger cut from artists and now want to pay less for hosting/distribution.
If apple didnāt change those ridiculous App Store commissions, regulators will change it for them. Itās clearly rent seeking that hurts smaller players like Spotify. Thatās also why you canāt buy ebooks on kindle app.
Appleās so-called service revenue is built on quicksand. 
Is smaller than Apple but is not a small player. Market cap of Spotify is $26B! Apple system is good for small startups! which SPOT was once. SPOT čæę²³ęꔄ despicable behavior.
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It needs to shoot all the way to $300.
$186 is 881 Billion. If it needs to go $300, it becomes $1420 Billion.
Last qtr revenue 84B and next qtr is 53.5B, both need to go $134B and $85B.
If the stock goes up without revenue increase, it is bound to fall down.
If the stock needs to catch that much revenue, guess when this will happen.
AAPL is established company, unlike TSLA and revenue+Profit will drive the company stock to higher level.
Sure is an accurate statement? More accurate to say P/E expansion is not sustainable.
Earnings = Revenue - Expenses, can have earnings increased without revenue growing too much if can control costs, reduce expenses even better.
Not always true. If pay too much for growth, share price would decline instead of increase if not up to expectation.
Forgotten about stock buyback?
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AAPL is established company, unlike TSLA and revenue+Profit will drive the company stock to higher level.
TSLA is growing company, AAPL is established. In 20 years, growth of TSLA will be higher than AAPL (people may dispute, but we will know after 20 years).
stock buyback => Even if they buy 200B buyback, AAPL acceleration is slow unless they go for innovation. Now, AAPL becomes established company, revenue generation machine, but not innovative growth company.
This is good for people like you and WQJ to hold the AAPL, for ever lasting dividends, but not good to buy new apple shares at this stage (even for both of you).
You are assuming it is growing It has not grown for 5 years! Any index fund trounced TSLA.
Trade TSLA not buy n hold.
Revenue increased almost 10x in 5 years but stock price barely moved == extremely bullish.
You only buy based on past five years price history? Tell me, what makes the stock price go up?
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Trade not buy n hold TSLA.
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In that case, your lot should be 50s or 100s, not on single digit.
AAPL rallied near the 200-day SMA and the upper channel, then Jim Cramer said this, Wonāt Buy Apple Stock at Current Prices Unless the Company Does This So 2mrw decline or pierce above them?
@manch, @JIl Want to short AAPL here?
I put the odd that AAPL would continue to rally till Mar 25 higher than decline here.
Everybody has been buying the Apple streaming rumor. Watch out when people decide to sell the news.
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