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Berenberg fires analyst infamous for doom-and-gloom Apple forecasts

December 2015

sog35 said:

fallenjt said:

The dumb fuck needed to be dumped. Well deserved.

And yet this dumb fuc's price target is closer than 90% of Wall street analyst.

His target was $85 so he's about $22 short of his target price.
The average Wall Street target is $145 which is $38 short of the target.
So actually this guy is more accurate about Apple then most of Wall Street.

If people listened to him for most of 2015 they would have been better off. From mid January you would have been better off listening to Ahmad and selling your stock. I wish I did.

Bottom line is Tim Cook is the worst CEO on Wall Street.
Other CEO's are given way worse situations and way worse revenue growth. Yet they figure out how to stabilize and grow the stock price. Apple grows revenue by 35% and profits by 40% and the stock is tanking like a piece of shit. Tim Cook can't even figure out how to stabilize the stock with $250 billion in the bank. What a worthless CEO he has proven to be. I hope the BOD finally fire his ass so he can spend time supporting gay rights and equality. We need a CEO at Apple who puts his priority on the COMPANY. Cook has time to spew about gay rights yet has not 5 minutes to refute supply chain rumors that has cost Apple shareholders and employees over $160 billion in value?

All it would take was Cook to refute supply chain rumors a few weeks ago and the stock would be at $125-$130. But he does not give a shit about shareholders. He gives shareholders a big middle finger time and time again. And you wonder why shareholders are scared to hold the stock? Cause the gate keeper of the company is a crappy leader.

Go ahead and piss on Ahmad. But I won't be surprised if next year the stock plummets to $95 and his price target of $85 will be the most accurate in the entire Wall Street. Ahmad is wise. He knows Tim Cook has no idea how to control the message on Wall Street. I wished I listened to him and dumped all my shares in Jan, Feb, Jun, or Sept this year. Can't wait to dump my shares once this hits $110. I won't buy Apple shares again until Tim Cook is fired.

I mean seriously. How the hell can you mess up the stock with 45% EPS growth? You do that by wasting your time on gay rights and not defending the stock from a barrage of lies.

Price targets are usually for a year out from when they are set. Saying his target is closer now sort of misses the point.

Apple CEO Tim Cook calls US tax code outdated and 'awful for America'

phone-ui-guy

December 2015

I'm not sure arguing over the current tax code helps much. Talking about what occurs because of it is so much more important. Just look at what companies are doing.

They leave profits overseas
Buy companies overseas with their offshore funds
Expand their operations overseas with their offshore funds
Sell Bonds in the US to pay Dividends to Shareholders
Complain about the repatriation Taxes

The key point missing from the list is "Bring profits from overseas back to US". If they won't bring it back, we need to fix the system so that they will. Why is the US against businesses bringing money to the US that they earned overseas? With an estimated 2 Trillion overseas doing nothing for the American economy, you would think we could get this fixed. Leaving the existing tax code in place which forces the money (and most importantly the investments that occur with this money) to stay outside the US is just wrong.

Stop force closing apps on your iPhone, it's not making it run faster or last longer

phone-ui-guy

October 2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by broderik

I'd have to pretty much quote everyone above me, but most of them are wrong. I have some more proof.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201330 which states:

Quote:

Generally, there's no need to force an app to close unless it's unresponsive. When you press the Home button two times quickly, the recently used apps that appear aren't open. They're in an efficient standby mode to help you navigate and multitask.

There's also a video of someone actually monitoring ram and cpu usage of apps that are open and closed (this is back in the iOS 6 days, this was true even back then), which you can find here:

For a more in-depth explanation, read this: http://www.speirs.org/blog/2012/1/2/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking.html

TL;DR: Article is correct, most of the replies up to this point are incorrect personal variations "well MY experience using this app or this app means that the whole app ecosystem behaves this way"

For apps not performing background operations, this article would be correct. For apps performing background operations, this article is incorrect. If you don't know the difference between the two types of apps, better safe than sorry when something is draining your battery in the background and kill them all.