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sog35 said:

My point remains. Android revenue is slowing down and is small for Google. Desktop revenue is shrinking every quarter and more and more rapidly. The 75% of Google's mobile revenue comes from iOS devices. So 90% of Google's growth will come from iOS ads. If Apple disconnects the plug Google is friken screwed.

So far, I give the win in this debate to sog35, who has maintained a point and shot down all opposition.

Copying this mildly interesting gimmick is not gonna save Samsung from its ongoing decline in high end phone sales. 

I'm sorry to see him go. Doomy and gloomy analysts like him have helped many investors make money over the long term by buying APPL at artificially deflated prices. 

Having followed APPL for many years, I'm beginning to think this is because Wall Street doesn't think of Apple as a company. No, Wall Street thinks of Apple as some kind of broken miracle-working religion. This is a little kooky, but Steve always did KIND of resemble a priest in his black shirt up on stage. The Apple Stores do KIND of (in a way) resemble a sacred heavenly space. So maybe the expectation isn't of high profit and low P/E, but rather, of miracles. Divine miracles. People look at Apple and they think, where are the miracles? Where is the reality-defying magic? 

Google stock ALSO engenders magical thinking. The Google Stock fantasy: Technology could replace everything. Amazon stock encourages magical thinking. The Amazon Stock fantasy: Amazon will become a monopoly that destroys even Walmart. Apple is about magical beliefs. The Apple Stock fantasy: Apple invents new boffo categories and breakthrough devices every year.

Only with Google and Amazon, there is no reality check -- because the magical expectation is for something in the future. With Apple, people can see that its success is (merely!) intelligent, incremental and systematic. That's Tim Cook. He's triumphing in a very methodical way that combines creativity with practicality. But that is not the myth of Apple that the public/investors/Wall Street wants and (still) believes.

Therefore, I can confidently predict, that APPL will only go up significantly, the day that Tim Cook walks on water.

Thank you for reading my ridiculous speculation lol.

Why not support the creative professionals that saved Apple's *** when the company was struggling?  Why cut pro apps?

 

It seems like Apple can be a successful vendor to the general public AND to pros.  Why cut this app??