TUAW Moneywatch: Apple Shares hit high

Also note, Apple is about 55% of the revenue of MS and about $20-$22 BILLION over the market cap of a certain Austin TX PC company that somehow manages to spend $500 million on R&D when the only original component they add to the PC racing out the robotic factory is a plastic sticker that rhythms with ... hell ... (that is if you can find that sticker out of the other 11 they place on there).

The story isn't wrong, it just isn't worded correctly. Apple stock CLOSED at a record 52-week high. Intra-day trading values really means bupkiss in this day an age.

How is this the AAPL high? The 52 week high is 86.40 according to both yahoo and google finance:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL

http://www.google.com/finance?q=AAPL

yeah, the symbol setup has been used here in cleveland for upwards of 6 months or more i'd guess. i bought some headphones that way a few weeks ago. they swipe your card right on the spot and email you the receipt. all very fast and very cool.

btw, wanted to add to that: i was just in the apple store in burlington mass and the employees were being trained on a new symbol mobile payment device to process mass volumes of transactions 'on the floor' so that people wouldn't have to queue at the register (as of last week) - is this already a practice at their other stores?

assuming 28 days between thanksgiving and right before xmas, that's: 535+ thousand ipods a day, or, 22+ thousand per hour, or 372 ipods per minute, amounting to roughly about 6 ipods per second...wow, that's a brisk selling rate...almost as fast as paris hilton's big album moved off the shelves...