🤖 Smartphone manufacturers slow as consumers skip generations
Upgrade fatigue plus austerity means consumers skip two or three phone generations; smartphone makers face a major slowdown with Apple the tip of the spear.
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CONVICTION
peaked 62.8 WATCH
EMBER
band · contested
▼ SHORT AAPL
expression · bearish tech
MISS
outcome · R -32.7% · α -59.7%
2025-01-06
window closed
⚠ CONFLICTING IDEAS ON THE SAME TICKER
— the board is arguing with itself; net it before trading (ticker view →)
also touching these tickers, same direction: ChatGPT takes Google search share and the market starts pricing the decay 9 (AAPL)
⚖ Why this verdict
fully deterministic — evaluate.py replays this from daily closes; nothing below is editable or hand-set
- Window: 2024-01-06 → 2025-01-06 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▼ SHORT AAPL (primary play). AAPL rose 32.7% over the window → direction-adjusted R = -32.7% (the call lost money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +27.1%
→ α = -32.7 − (+27.1) = -59.7%
— what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
Stock-selection read: -5.6% — did AAPL move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
- Rule fired:
· HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5· PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0▶ MISS — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a MISS earn 0 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. supported: Chamath, Sacks | opposed: Jason
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2024-01-06)
Plays
| expression | symbol | kind | relevance | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▼ SHORT | AAPL | stock | PRIMARY | named as the tip of the spear |
Mention log
Jason
tech w=1.05 · n=56
· E160 (2024-01-06) · annual_prediction · strength 2
▶ 36:41
SUPPORT
· horizon 12mo
“I went with smartphones. Smartphone manufacturers are facing a major slowdown... people are skipping a generation of phones... during austerity they're going to skip two or three versions... Apple would be obviously the tip of that spear.”
Jason
tech w=1.05 · n=56
· E169 (2024-03-08) · explicit_prediction · strength 3
▶ 55:53
SUPPORT
“I think this is really just about peak iPhone. If you look at the majority of their revenue, it's obviously from the iPhone, which has become massively profitable over time, but the iPhone revenue has been flat for a couple of years now.”
Chamath
tech w=0.90 · n=83
· E171 (2024-03-22) · sentiment · strength 2
▶ 3:03
SUPPORT
“They definitely are in a moment where people are looking at the profitability of these devices the source of their long-term cash flow. And I think they realize that there's not a lot of growth because they haven't entered a bunch of new markets.”
Who built this conviction
each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -45.5 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E160 2024-01-06 | init | +42.1 | 42.1 | E160 born by Jason (annual_prediction x2) [w=1.05] |
| E161 2024-01-13 | decay | -1.7 | 40.5 | E161 silent |
| E162 2024-01-19 | decay | -1.6 | 38.8 | E162 silent |
| E163 2024-01-26 | decay | -1.6 | 37.3 | E163 silent |
| E164 2024-02-02 | decay | -1.5 | 35.8 | E164 silent |
| E165 2024-02-09 | decay | -1.4 | 34.4 | E165 silent |
| E166 2024-02-16 | decay | -1.4 | 33.0 | E166 silent |
| E167 2024-02-23 | decay | -1.3 | 31.7 | E167 silent |
| E168 2024-03-01 | decay | -1.3 | 30.4 | E168 silent |
| E169 2024-03-08 | reinforce | +13.2 | 43.6 | E169 Jason support x3 [w=1.05] |
| E169 2024-03-08 | reinforce | +7.9 | 51.5 | E169 Sacks support x1 (new voice) [w=0.77] |
| E169 2024-03-08 | reinforce | +7.9 | 59.4 | E169 Chamath support x1 (new voice) [w=0.90] |
| E170 2024-03-15 | decay | -2.4 | 57.0 | E170 silent |
| E171 2024-03-22 | reinforce | +5.8 | 62.8 | E171 Chamath support x2 [w=0.90] |
| E171 2024-03-22 | reversal | -37.7 | 25.1 | E171 Jason flips |
| E172 2024-03-29 | decay | -1.0 | 24.1 | E172 silent |
| E173 2024-04-05 | decay | -1.0 | 23.2 | E173 silent |
| E174 2024-04-12 | decay | -0.9 | 22.2 | E174 silent |
| E175 2024-04-19 | decay | -0.9 | 21.3 | E175 silent |
| E176 2024-04-26 | decay | -0.9 | 20.5 | E176 silent |
| E177 2024-05-03 | decay | -0.8 | 19.7 | E177 silent |
| E178 2024-05-10 | decay | -0.8 | 18.9 | E178 silent |
| E179 2024-05-17 | decay | -0.8 | 18.1 | E179 silent |
| E180 2024-05-24 | decay | -0.7 | 17.4 | E180 silent |
| E181 2024-05-31 | decay | -0.7 | 16.7 | E181 silent |
| E182 2024-06-07 | reinforce | +13.5 | 30.3 | E182 Chamath support x3 [w=0.90] |
| E183 2024-06-14 | decay | -1.2 | 29.0 | E183 silent |
| E184 2024-06-20 | decay | -1.2 | 27.9 | E184 silent |
| E185 2024-06-29 | decay | -1.1 | 26.8 | E185 silent |
| E186 2024-07-04 | decay | -1.1 | 25.7 | E186 silent |
| E187 2024-07-12 | decay | -1.0 | 24.7 | E187 silent |
| E188 2024-07-19 | decay | -1.0 | 23.7 | E188 silent |
| E189 2024-07-26 | decay | -0.9 | 22.7 | E189 silent |
| E190 2024-08-02 | decay | -0.9 | 21.8 | E190 silent |
| E191 2024-08-09 | decay | -0.9 | 20.9 | E191 silent |
| E192 2024-08-16 | decay | -0.8 | 20.1 | E192 silent |
| E193 2024-08-23 | decay | -0.8 | 19.3 | E193 silent |
| E194 2024-08-30 | decay | -0.8 | 18.5 | E194 silent |
| E195 2024-09-06 | decay | -0.7 | 17.8 | E195 silent |
| E196 2024-09-20 | decay | -0.7 | 17.1 | E196 silent |
| E197 2024-09-27 | decay | -0.7 | 16.4 | E197 silent |
| E198 2024-10-03 | decay | -0.7 | 15.7 | E198 silent |
| E199 2024-10-11 | decay | -0.6 | 15.1 | E199 silent |
| E200 2024-10-18 | decay | -0.6 | 14.5 | E200 silent |
| E201 2024-10-25 | reinforce | +11.6 | 26.1 | E201 Chamath support x2 [w=0.90] |
| E202 2024-11-01 | decay | -1.0 | 25.1 | E202 silent |
| E203 2024-11-08 | decay | -1.0 | 24.1 | E203 silent |
| E204 2024-11-16 | decay | -1.0 | 23.1 | E204 silent |
| E205 2024-11-23 | decay | -0.9 | 22.2 | E205 silent |
| E206 2024-12-07 | decay | -0.9 | 21.3 | E206 silent |
| E207 2024-12-13 | decay | -0.9 | 20.4 | E207 silent |
| E208 2024-12-20 | decay | -0.8 | 19.6 | E208 silent |
| E209 2025-01-04 | decay | -0.8 | 18.8 | E209 silent |