I have stopped paying attention to the stock because it seems like any good news about Apple makes the stock go down, but can someone explain to me why this statement made it shoot up 10 points? It's not like people didn't already know about this.
Wall St. is always the last to realize what's going on in technology, and that's combined with a huge blind spot regarding aapl. Next time you're watching some analyst talk about technology, ask yourself if you'd trust this person to install software for you. If the answer is 'no', you're probably more qualified to be a technology stock pundit. Apple is mopping the floor with the competition: they win almost all of the profit in this sector and their every move, since the introduction of the iPhone, has been blatantly copied by the typical selection of commodity junk tech companies who fight over scraps in the low end of the market.
Samsung is going blue in the face trying to convince the less endowed to make up for it with laughably huge screen sizes... Wow, it only fits in fat boy pants, it looks significantly cheaper and cluttered, it's fans are overly hung up on the needlessly stupid screen size, and it's running an OS that's always named according to various sugary junk foods. Oh wait... the other message is that it's cheaper, but just as 'cool' as those iPhones! It's really easy to see the demographic target... nothing quite says cheap, overweight, 1-inch wonder faster than Samsung!