applications, better known as aps, will top $56 billion. apple stock has fallen out of favor, but people are loving the aps. is this a reason to buy this stock, and will it help apple? > > the more you look into it, it is hard to find reasons to buy apple except for the price is lower. that is not enough of a reason. and this is the fifth anniversary of the ap store opening, so it is kind of interesting that we are looking at it as a mature market even though it has only been five years. > > i am writing this down right now. what is it, march 8th? alan is actually talking about a short position in apple. > > no no no. i think- > > apple has issues right now. the issue is the stock goes down every day - lower lows, lower highs on the daily chart. 75% of the time it goes down from the open to the close. they can do many things. unlike other companies, they can do things to rectify their things, which are spending their cash, extra dividend, maybe buying some stock back, or this phone in china would be huge. > > okay, the bigger play, i think,