joanna stern -- >> we're working hard here we're working hard >> harsh, thank you for illuminating us. >> really interesting. >>> apple is moving lower on the news a range of subscription based companies moving higher. check out the stocks that saw pops and continue to rise. netflix up 1.5%. spotify nearly 3%. match up 6.5%. also bumble, roblox and zynga. zynga up 7%. alphabet moving lower and, in fact, seems to be news the app store could be the next target modest decline 1.5%. let's turn to the silver stocks having a good day. first solar and sun run. for sun run the firm setting a buy rating of 60% upside and run is up 3.5% this stock is down about 30% so far this year. they're saying the industry can keep growing at a fast pace due to easy adoption for solar and the rest of the space, the analyst is here welcome. >> thank you for having me >> why is sunrun struggling so much this year >> next year an advantage from people who install on solar. we think they will not expire:i think there was some disappointment in the minds of investors what they were expecting from the administrat

there was a great article that joanna stern published this week , talking about her experience takingwo broken laptops to the apple genius bar, and finding that an independent purveyor -- repair provider could do repairs for much less. we have also see unit then turn people away, same repairs can't be done, when a and independent repair provider is capable of doing these things. romaine: we will have to leave it there. carry she hand, thank you so much. more on this topic just ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ taylor: today, we've been really focused on the right to repair movement. president biden's antitrust push will make it easier for owners to fix products, indirectly targeting a contentious area of copyright law. kyle, how is poppy wright folded into all of this? -- copyright folded into all of this? >> it's a bit of an accident. the 1998 copyright law has an action aimed at preventing piracy. it is illegal to circumvent anything designed to protect copyrighted material. that means that if you had a cdu or cassette, it is designed to be in casa to copy, you are not supposed to even

. >> joanna stern, thank you and important story for sure and carl, i guess the good news is that tiktok by bytedance, a chinese company, certainly has the technology to distinguish between child and adult accounts because the chinese government wants companies to be able to do that and to sensor and filter material to make sure that it doesn't get to the impressionable eyes of american children they certainly have the technology >> yeah, julia, i'll let you weigh in as well but hard to imagine this is simply an engineering challenge. >> this is a massive challenge we've seen facebook have to deal with similar challenges about the moderating content on the flat form in the past. and we'll see if there is more of a regulatory crackdown on these issues >>> obviously continued weakness in the equity markets, some firms warning on q3, today beat get gamestop, restoration hardware and lulu. thousand over to judge >> welcome to the halftime report front and center, is this as good as it gets for the economy and your money we're debating what lies ahead risks seem to be growing good to see ever

. >> yesterday, joanna stern tweeted out we had a bet about whether it would be called the apple 13 orday you said it on air did you not remember >> i totally remember. i just don't remember i told you i bet it's not. >> you said okay i remember at the time it sounded like a bet to me, too. >> i didn't say what i said was going to be called i want to bet on the same side you can't bet someone when you're both on the same side. >> let's go to the tape. >> you can't use that word, by the way. you can't use that word. >> i did. >> because of people in wales. >> what am i supposed to say then you're trying to get out of it >> i didn't bet her. i didn't say it's not going to be the 13. she made that up. >> i took your approval, your assent to mean the same thing she did. >> you can look at it. i bet you $13 it will be the apple 13 and i said okay. >> right, which means okay, i'll bet you. >> it was not betting. i was saying -- >> you bet on everything you have to definite ly say if you're not beth on something otherwise we're going to assume. >> no, i said i love the 13. they don't have the

you can also see a new version of the apple watch joining us is joanna stern, senior technology specialist it's a two-part thing, new phone and then the watch which has been enough in recent years to keep the stock going. let's start with the phone i like the name 13 i like 13. it's a good number i think it's good -- >> should it be bad? >> will it be the iphone 13? >> i bet you $13 it's called 13. >> you've got it >> first of all, i don't think it's going to make itto your wall of fame there because we're really in the incremental upgrade year, right? there's always the tiktok cycle of the iphone. last year with the 12 we got a big design refresh, we got 5g. it was a big year for the iphone this year looking at incremental upgrades doesn't mean it's going to be boring, it will just be smaller upgrades it doesn't matter to most people because they're not upgrading every year we're at a three to four-year upgrade cycle for most people who have phones so they will be getting substantial camera improvement, better screen, better design and now 5g since those people haven't had 5g. >> the came