“Apple is poised to win Black Friday and perhaps the holiday shopping season as the world’s largest company pushes perhaps its strongest product lineup ever featuring the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus,” Chris Ciaccia writes for TheStreet.
“Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White notes that Apple’s portfolio refresh, which began in September with the new iPhones, coupled with the lack of innovation from Samsung and Google, should help Apple “‘shine bright this holiday season,'” Ciaccia writes. “A strengthening economy and weaker gas prices have also bolstered consumer spending, White adds.”
Ciaccia writes, “Additionally, the company’s latest tablets, the iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 3, unveiled in October, are likely to be the ‘go to’ tablets this year, White noted, helped in part by a gold colored iPad. ‘This is the first holiday season that consumers will be able to purchase a gold-colored iPad, and we expect this extra touch of ‘bling’ to prove popular across the malls of America,’ White penned in the note.”
Read more in the full article here.
“…coupled with the lack of innovation from Samsung..”
funny.
““A strengthening economy..”
funnier.
He means “….coupled with the lack of ability to truly innovate at all from Shamstung…”
As Professor Marvel/Wizard of Oz might say to the Samsung Cowardly Copying Lion “Apple’s got one thing you haven’t got – nor will get – a superior and comprehensive ecosystem that attracts in ways you haven’t a clue about, nor consumer trust to build.”
Samsung understands the concept of the comprehensive ecosystem the way a blind man understands a rainbow. When all my Apple stuff is working together it becomes a gestalt rather than individual components. What other company is capable of doing that?
That the iPad now comes in gold makes a difference in overall sales? Seriously?
Oh jeez…
You’d be surprised. I thought the same, until I saw resale prices, especially overseas. Gold somehow always fetched higher, all else being the same.
‘Tis the season to write a bunch of stuff and nonsense regarding Apple. And apparently, to re-broadcast same. MDN is becoming less and less worthy of my time.
Hoping for the $150 Black Friday gift card by shopping Apple online again this year. Poised to buy new 15″ MBP, then will plow gift card into iPhone 6.
You yankee, capitalist dog!
Yep, trying to get best deal I can in our system. Willing to pay for good value, and with $150 off, all the better. And as an Apple shareholder of a whopping 228 shares, I’m liking the bumps to the share price, including today. Looks like another all time high.
Some people don’t recognize humor when they see it.
Problem is with these $100-150 off Black Friday sales on pricier Macs is you can save that everyday by just shopping from B&H, assuming you don’t live in New York. Or from Mac Connection. The sales tax money savings can go towards Apple Care. (And yeah I know you’re supposed to report it, like anybody does.)
As always, I am SO grateful for the illuminating brilliance of these analysts.
Black Friday is going to be just the beginning of Apple stock’s month-long sleigh ride into the clouds. Buy APPL while you can still afford it ….
Wow — a zero content article. Thanks for the heads up, MDN.