Author

@mweinbach

Max Weinbach is a consumer-tech analyst with credible product and sector read-throughs, but his feed and bylines are mostly phones, computers, software, AI tools, and device commen

trader score
-1.17
hit rate
35%
mean α
-0.41%
signals 14d
18

Grade = how their written analysis reads (A best). Trader score = how their last-20 timestamped calls performed vs SPY.

Their picks, scored

Across their last 20 scored bets: 35% hit rate, -0.41% mean alpha, trader score -1.17. Their last-14d mentions, direction-adjusted, have moved +1.4% since posting (mean over 16 mentions with price data).

Recent signals15receipts included
date (PT)tickerauthorsentwhat they saidsince thenreceipt
2026-08-24GOOGL@mweinbach+0.25Praises the Pixel 11 Pro XL's current DXOMark standing.-0.4%
2026-08-23AAPL@mweinbach+0.20Reports running 200 simultaneous agents on an M3 Ultra Mac Studio while using at most about 40% CPU.+3.3%
2026-08-21·@mweinbach·Publishes a workflow-focused model report informed by roughly 60B tokens of usage.·
2026-08-20·@mweinbach·Reports that Cursor added a steering feature.·
2026-08-20GOOGL@mweinbach+0.30Reports that Pixel 11 Pro XL battery life matches other major flagship phones.+1.7%
2026-08-20AAPL@mweinbach+0.35Calls an unspecified iMessage-related capability a game changer.+2.7%
2026-08-20TSM@mweinbach+0.25Reports Waymo uses a custom ASIC manufactured on TSMC's 5nm process.+0.4%
2026-08-19AAPL@mweinbach+0.30Reports improved Qwen prefill performance from combining ANE and GPU on M3 Ultra.+0.9%
2026-08-19AAPL@mweinbach+0.15Reports Amazon drone delivery of Apple products within an hour.+0.9%
2026-08-19AMZN@mweinbach+0.50Reports Amazon drone delivery of Apple products within an hour.+0.2%
2026-08-19AAPL@mweinbach+0.30Plans to test combined ANE and GPU inference on Macs, expecting better prefill speed.+0.9%
2026-08-18NVDA@mweinbach+0.25Reports about 50 tokens per second for Qwen3.8 27B on DGX Spark.-1.0%
2026-08-18AAPL@mweinbach+0.25Praises Google's Pixel execution and compares its polish favorably with Apple.+3.1%
2026-08-18GOOGL@mweinbach+0.55Praises Google's Pixel execution and compares its polish favorably with Apple.+0.7%
2026-08-17AAPL@mweinbach+0.55Argues Apple's Watch, AirPods and iPhone ecosystem is well suited to AI hardware.+4.6%

Grade is our human read-worthiness rating; trader score is a rolling 20-bet hit-rate/alpha composite — different things, often disagreeing. “Since then” is direction-unaware in the table; the summary line above adjusts for which way they leaned.