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  • Google surpasses Apple as world's most valuable company

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    I could not agree more. Unfortunately many people on this forum simply refuse to look at Apple with a critical eye like this. Lets see what happens in the next five years with Apple. Because Cook has been sitting on billions and refuses to invest into the company so that it may diversify and ass significant alternate revenue streams. Relying on one basic source of revenue stream is not being smart. Everything Apple does is dependent on iPhone and iPad. 

    I've argued this before 
    Bullshit. 90% of Google's revenue is advertising. That hasn't changed. Wall Street got all nervous in 2013 when Samsung was the bogeyman. Now everyone is panicking saying Apple has to pivot to so-called services because Wall Street doesn't like hardware companies and iPhone growth is slowing. More bullshit. And how do we know Apple's not working on diversifying? Just because Cook doesn't tell us what's in the pipeline doesn't mean it's empty.
    These people are insane man. Google spends ~$3 billion on R&D, while Apple spends 3x more at $9 billion, yet he says Cook "refuses to invest into the company..." Google will freely say how much they spend at wall-street conference calls. We could only ever know how much Apple spends because of the required SEC filings. Google will freely announce to the world what they're working on. We can only infer what Apple may be working on by their required FCC patent filings. Google's PR stunt has truly fooled this guy.

    Google have yet to turn many, if any at all, of their projects into innovations, instead continuously relying on smartphone users viewing ads on the Web, YouTube, or any other ad placement mechanism. But If you remove the iPhone, all of Apple's other products combined still makes more money than the entire Alphabet company. I would say it is Google who is dependent on ads.

    cali

  • Apple considering original TV shows to boost 'cable-like' streaming coming in Sept. - report

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    lkrupp said:
    This is good time to bring up the subject of Apple’s obvious reliance on iPhone sales for the bulk of its income. Do you really think the upper management of Apple doesn’t already know they have to diversify because the iPhone won’t always be the cash cow. The Apple II line was the cash cow while the Macintosh was being developed. The only question is whether, not if, that diversification happens internally or by buying it on the open market. I for one have full confidence that Apple’s leadership is not the blockheads some on AI make them out to be.
    Simply because the iPhone is insanely profitable doesn't mean Apple isn't diversified. They're more diversified than Microsoft or Google for income. Even if the iPhone didn't exist, for example, all of their other products would generate more profit than Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Intel, HP or Dell..
    nolamacguycali

  • Apple acquires analytics startup LearnSprout to boost educational tech

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    I'm glad Apple continues to take a qualitative approach to bolster it's effort in the education market instead of simply lowering prices to "compete against chromebooks." - (iMore comment section)
    anton zuykovcanukstormmatrix077

  • Google paid Apple $1B to be default iOS search bar provider in 2014

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    mubaili said:
    The truth is Google is best in search by a big margin. Apple has to make Google the default search engine. Well, in that case it might as well just take some money from Google as well. People would call for Tim's head to roll if Google is not the default search engine.
    Disagreed. While Google is probably the best search solution, it certainly isn't by a big margin at all. 
    williamlondonpalomine

  • Another new kernel flaw that Google won't fix for Android users prompts more switching to Apple's i

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    sog35 said:
    You are truly living in La la land. There's more chance of Tim marrying Kim Kardashian than that happening. Your constant ramblings about the share price and loathing of Tim as a CEO has finally unhinged your mind. 
    Suggesting a strategy of destroying your own margins by deliberately making an inferior product and then letting others make the hardware and have all that negativity.. 
    Its called thinking out of the box.

    Why would this move destroy margins? It would in fact increase margins. Apple would simply license iOS to a hardware maker, end of story. Those license fees would be almost 100% profit. Of course the phones would have to be built at Apple's specs. 

    This sub brand would only be sold in Africa, Eastern Europe, South America, Central America. In those countries less than 1% of the population can afford an iPhone. Why not sell $250-$300 phones there and make $50 profit on license fees?


    Are you being serious? You want Apple to re-enter the high-volume, low-profit margin business like they had in the 1990s? When they put themselves on the verge of bankruptcy?
    singularitynetmage