By Eric Savitz

Apple (AAPL) hit a new 52-week intraday high of $215.59 today, before backing off slightly to close up 37 cents, or 0.2%, at $214.38, after the company this morning announced iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded 3 billion applications from its App Store. At least one analyst, Mark Moskowitz, had bullish things to say about that.

Source: [Barron's Tech Trade Daily]

Note: I'm a senior software engineer in "career transition" - I'm neither a stock broker nor an investment banker. I do own a few hundred shares of Apple stock - but my biggest tech positions are in Cisco [CSCO] and Hewlett-Packard [HPQ]. I also own some VMware [VMW] and ETFs.

This post is FYI only, it is NOT a recommendation to buy or sell any securities. I may change my posiotions at any time without further notices.