Is that good or bad? Buffett buys sensible companies. But as a tech nerd I want innovative companies even if they don't balance the books! I guess it's good if you're an investor and bad if you're a fan.
Tim Cook’s determination to run Apple in a boring, Buffett-friendly value-stock kind of way is unfortunate for America and the world imo.
He’s got a point. But also maybe when you get so big it’s inevitable that you become boring.
Maybe you’re the ones getting a little bored with your supermodel wife. Many dream of wanting one, and then you get one and its as amazing as you thought it was going to be. But then, it begins to look the same and while it’s still good and all, it’s not quite what it once was from your perspective. And then they see all these new super models coming up and they are exploding the runway by primarily doing the same thing your wife did, but it looks different. It looks like how your wife once walked the runway, bold and daring. And then you begin to think why can’t my wife do things like that. But she is, you’ve just got used to it and it no longer feels the same to you.
I really do feel Apple is STILL king of the castle. Sure they may not be first at everything but they are the ones that push the whole system forward. Those people who are jumping all over Amazon like they are the next big thing, are those that leave their supermodel wife for something new... only to be disappointed in a few years when they get too familiar with them and start asking the same questions all over again and looking for the next big thing.
I do think your, ‘get so big, it’s inevitable’ comment does have merit and does play a role, but perhaps the size has more to do with the inability to keep things secret and the expectation that Apple needs to keep pace with all these other supermodels who are trying bold things just to attempt to make a statement, to stand out, and differentiate themselves as they attempt to break into a nearly impenetrable business market. (Side note - if you are arguement is simply referring to the comparison of the push to get voice assistants in the main stream with the already major players in the system, then ignore this argument. )
I dunno I think there are missed opportunities. Like canceling the AirPort line. I think Apple had the opportunity to create the best line of mesh network/home hub products. Instead they let the product line languish until they killed it.
As long as the AirPort ease of use can be certified from Apple to work with third parties I'm good to go. That department never was going to be a steady growth for Apple.
And there you have it: concerns over "steady growth". That is Wall Street pathology, not reasonable, long-term business. This kind of mentality, of perpetual gains and ignoring smaller values, is what will be written as the mistakes of the "beleaguered Apple" of the seemingly inevitable future, if Apple does not change its focus back to complete solutions and taking their time to release complete, fully tested, and optimized product.
Is that good or bad? Buffett buys sensible companies. But as a tech nerd I want innovative companies even if they don't balance the books! I guess it's good if you're an investor and bad if you're a fan.
Tim Cook’s determination to run Apple in a boring, Buffett-friendly value-stock kind of way is unfortunate for America and the world imo.
He’s got a point. But also maybe when you get so big it’s inevitable that you become boring.
Honest to God the company mints money. What the hell is wrong with this people? Clearly we like the things they sell... but if you just liked money and needed a safe money tree thats always will grow money.... why is not that considered innovative or sexy? When did money trees become boring ? Jeff Bezos just did an interview where he denigrated Amazon for his true love... Blue Origin.
Blue Origin will NEVER launch an astronaut with NASA in its current state. How SpaceX will do it is nothing short of miraculous and if Elon weren’t so Bipolar perhaps Tesla might also make money too but not even Musk shits on his own company in the press... The flame thrower thing is ... unseemly for a rocket company. Lithium dude. Make cars, shut up and find lithium. That’s how Tesla moves forward.
But the entire financial industry takes one analyst report and a factory report from Samsung Display (which has no skin in the game right? - LG your up!) adds Scotch Tape and glue and some dipshit tool in a bad suit gets on Cramer or some other horse shit news outlet and tells everyone the worlds first Trillion dollar company is now garbage because thier 1000 phone is out of the reach of consumers... the previous iPhone cost 800. No one that uses one can live without one and 200 financed on a plan it coffee money.... including hundreds of analysts typing this conjecture literally on an actual iphone x.
It should be illegal. And there should be oversight and certification or at best some accountable skill in these professions. This is people retirement money for Christ sakes.
Why is Bloomberg so negative on Apple anyway ? What is the animus? Boring is awesome. I want a working iPhone with iterative useful additions not an cut rate iris scanner and a launcher ... what the f* is a launcher anyway.... aren’t all OS launchers ? Why do apps need a second starting or sorting place. Just open. No more conversation. Just apps that open and hardware that i can safely allow to run my life.
That’s awesome, not boring. Bloomberg and all taking this cyclical and always proven false narrative is what’s actually bad for America. And Obesity... Gymkit i believe in you !!
We need less services or more building Wall Street. Amazon will never run the world. It’s been a year and you cant even scan a amazon gift card or print a coupon in a Whole Foods. It’s literally a PR purchase. Whole Foods is still using Instacart to ship and deliver and AMAZON is supposed to be King of Shipping.
It seems to me thats an actual fail. And who makes money with Amazon. I love Alexa and she kicks Siris ass like an Olympian playing a JV high school kid but I wouldn’t give her my retirement money. Alexa tell Bloomberg to indict the entire staff of Piper Jaffrey for Securities Fraud and Stock manipulation and what’s in my flash briefing?”
She can do two things now.
Siri ? Wow you saved a life this week thats sweet... how lives were not saved when your owners called out in thier last moments only to you buy them movie tickets or give a sport scorer? Bet its more than one. Bet its lots more than one.
According to this 13F filed today, Berkshire Hathaway added (at least) 12.4 million shares to its AAPL holdings during the second quarter. It’s now a 5% owner of AAPL, so going forward we should see reporting on its position in Apple’s own SEC filings (e.g., in Apple’s annual 14A proxy statement).
According to this 13F filed today, Berkshire Hathaway added (at least) 12.4 million shares to its AAPL holdings during the second quarter. It’s now a 5% owner of AAPL, so going forward we should see reporting on its position in Apple’s own SEC filings (e.g., in Apple’s annual 14A proxy statement).
I'd expect another bump up to the stock tomorrow based on this.
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Blue Origin will NEVER launch an astronaut with NASA in its current state. How SpaceX will do it is nothing short of miraculous and if Elon weren’t so Bipolar perhaps Tesla might also make money too but not even Musk shits on his own company in the press... The flame thrower thing is ... unseemly for a rocket company. Lithium dude. Make cars, shut up and find lithium. That’s how Tesla moves forward.
But the entire financial industry takes one analyst report and a factory report from Samsung Display (which has no skin in the game right? - LG your up!) adds Scotch Tape and glue and some dipshit tool in a bad suit gets on Cramer or some other horse shit news outlet and tells everyone the worlds first Trillion dollar company is now garbage because thier 1000 phone is out of the reach of consumers... the previous iPhone cost 800. No one that uses one can live without one and 200 financed on a plan it coffee money.... including hundreds of analysts typing this conjecture literally on an actual iphone x.
It should be illegal. And there should be oversight and certification or at best some accountable skill in these professions. This is people retirement money for Christ sakes.
Why is Bloomberg so negative on Apple anyway ? What is the animus? Boring is awesome. I want a working iPhone with iterative useful additions not an cut rate iris scanner and a launcher ... what the f* is a launcher anyway.... aren’t all OS launchers ? Why do apps need a second starting or sorting place. Just open. No more conversation. Just apps that open and hardware that i can safely allow to run my life.
That’s awesome, not boring. Bloomberg and all taking this cyclical and always proven false narrative is what’s actually bad for America. And Obesity... Gymkit i believe in you !!
We need less services or more building Wall Street. Amazon will never run the world. It’s been a year and you cant even scan a amazon gift card or print a coupon in a Whole Foods. It’s literally a PR purchase. Whole Foods is still using Instacart to ship and deliver and AMAZON is supposed to be King of Shipping.
It seems to me thats an actual fail. And who makes money with Amazon. I love Alexa and she kicks Siris ass like an Olympian playing a JV high school kid but I wouldn’t give her my retirement money. Alexa tell Bloomberg to indict the entire staff of Piper Jaffrey for Securities Fraud and Stock manipulation and what’s in my flash briefing?”
She can do two things now.
Siri ? Wow you saved a life this week thats sweet... how lives were not saved when your owners called out in thier last moments only to you buy them movie tickets or give a sport scorer? Bet its more than one. Bet its lots more than one.
Siri can kind of do one and never in the car.
Boo on Wall Street. Boooooo on Siri.