During today’s iPhone OS 3.0 media event, Apple showed a preview of their new stock application. Surprisingly to me (Disclaimer: I’m an Apple share-holder), they didn’t show today’s real AAPL stock-price which ranged between 95.07 and 99.69 but instead showed a quote of 125.42. The last time Apple traded at that price was in September 2008.
While I admit that I would like to see AAPL trading at that price, I do not understand Apple’s intention in using a stock price that is more than 25% higher than the reality. I remember Steve Jobs joking about the AAPL real-time stock-price during earlier keynotes in which he was using the real quotes and not some fake numbers.
Side-note: The other stock-quotes that were listed in the application were real numbers from today.
See some screenshots taken off Apple’s Webcast that can be found here.
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“Side-note: The other stock-quotes that were listed in the application were real numbers from today.”
No they weren’t.
NASDAQ was not above 1,500 today.
These were series of screenshots yet Jobs was using the real app in a real phone during past demos.
Also, if you note, the intraday showed times that hadn’t even happened yet, and they obviously were having fun because it reads about 11:17AM (which would’ve been about the time he was saying this), but the iPhone’s time was stuck at the classic “9:42″.
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