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Just to be pedantic: What exactly is the value that should be substituted for the variable $AAPL? :P
by rix0r 16y ago
Just to be pedantic:
What exactly is the value that should be substituted for the variable $AAPL? :P
- DuoSRX 16y ago$AAPL is used on twitter to talk about stocks, just like # is used for hashtags. Like $AAPL, $GOOG, $MSFT ... etc
- astrodust 16y agoAh, Twitter. What symbol will you appropriate next?
- maukdaddy 16y agoProbably %
- kanamekun 16y ago@astrodust - Perhaps the @ sign? :-) I actually just looked up hash tags on Wikipedia, and was surprised to see that the asterisk is starting to be used to give out "stars" and ratings to items: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)#Star_tags http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)#Star_tags So I guess so far, microblogging has appropriated at least four symbols: @, #, $ and *. That leaves: !, %, ^, &, and ().
- syncsynchalt 16y agoCould it be... interrobang‽
- cookiecaper 16y agoWhy is that necessary? Why not just use the symbol? I'd think that $ appears in too many non-stock contexts to really be a useful filtering mechanism.
- rkudeshi 16y agoIIRC, it's because of StockTwits. http://stocktwits.com/ http://stocktwits.com/
- davidmat 16y ago348.48 at the moment, according to google finance.
- pmorici 16y agoIt's a holiday.
- Seth_Kriticos 16y agoNASDAQ is closed, holiday. DAX (Germany) is in business hours though, and the stocks fell ~7% immediately http://www.finanzen.net/aktien/Apple-Aktie http://www.finanzen.net/aktien/Apple-Aktie and then flattened out. Expect something similar when NASDAQ opens again.
- radicaldreamer 16y agoSounds like a good bargain to buy on tomorrow's drops
- protomyth 16y agoYeah, It will go up and this situation shows why Tim Cook is so vital to Apple's future.
- elithrar 16y agoExactly. Many people freak out when Jobs is away, but Cook + team (ie. Forstall, Mansfield, Johnson) proved themselves last time Jobs was away for an extended period of time. I'd always be interested to know who would run the company if Jobs stepped down (he'd probably stay until he couldn't, given his drive) - my bet would be Ive.
- protomyth 16y agoI think they would mimic the current situation with Cook running the company and Ive doing the product development. What their actual titles would be is anyones guess. Cook's lieutenants are going to be very important. I hope this is just the effects of the transplant per the NYT article. It would make sense given the compensastion they are giving Cook.