daveinpublic

Good thing Apple moved to 64 bit when they did. Everyone said they jumped the gun, there's no use for 64 bit because there's not enough RAM, etc. Which some back away from cause it's simply not true. Now fast forward, and all the ground work that Apple has been laying is paying off. Look at something like Apple Pay, took a while to get traction, now they have the ability to do person 2 person payments. From home automation to car play, these technologies require time to mature, and Apple took the dive early in the game. Now, it's paying off. I think Apple did Car Play because they want to be able to start the engine from your phone. Apple is not only the biggest most profitable company in the world, they're also the most well positioned.

irevolt said:

In Apple’s seeking for ways for employment equality (US workers to match China), tax breaks, repatriating off-shore banked monies, they have convinced Foxconn to invest 7 billion dollars in the US for building manufacturing facilities. I’ll bet that the Trump family will be the land developers in this deal and they will build living quarters for Americans that mirrors the Foxconn buildings in China complete with nets to catch the workers driven to suicide by working conditions.

But in actuality, not a bad thing for many American families.

Now I KNOW Apple is headed in the right direction.  

As long as analysts are berating Apple, they're doing something right.  I've been following Apple, and watching these type of article and analysts, for probably 10 years.  This is absolutely no different than before.  That's a pretty risky and negative prediction, when you factor in Apple's track record.  What's more important is this analyst's track record, because his historical predictions deserve as much analysis as the company he's analyzing.

What many analysts have never figured out, because truth be told they don't follow Apple closely even though they'd like you to believe they do, is that Apple is a company of the now.  Google is mostly a hype machine that tricks tech blogs to report on them daily with well timed PR releases about fringe ideas and 20% projects.  This gives analysts a feeling that Google is releasing timely innovative products.  I think the one thing that Apple is doing incredibly well, that the analysts say is a negative, is putting a focus on the iPhone.  Let's face it, the mobile phone is the the hottest computer category, many Windows' fans are still upset that they aren't a part of that market, because it's the way forward, and Apple is being very smart by owning market.  They have, for the first time ever, captured over 100% of the industry's profits.  This is the category Apple should be focusing on, and this is the category they do focus on.  This is the category every company desires to capture, and Apple does it successfully with ease, year after year and quarter after quarter.  

As far as future products, obviously Apple has products and categories that it's working on that they don't give information on.  You can be sure they have a VR solution just like all the other tech companies.  Everything I've said seems obvious.  But these analysts will keep elbowing their way into the news cycle at the cost of their own reputations. Would I like to Apple do this or that, sure, but I know this isn't exactly like the Apple of Steve Jobs.  This is a different but similar company, and they're doing a fantastic job.