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  • Microsoft set to axe nearly 2,000 jobs in bid to 'streamline' smartphone biz

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    mike1 said:
    Sad to hear about all those Finns losing their jobs. 

    It's tragic Nokia got hooked up with Microsoft. 
    Unfortunately, they got hooked up with MS a last gasp. They became irreverent with the rise of the smartphone and MS purchasing the hardware division of Nokia just prolonged the inevitable.
    Right.  It wasn't Microsoft that killed Nokia, it was that Cupertino company and its loyal customers.  Or, with due respect to Mick Jagger:  "I shouted out who killed Nokia?, when after all it was you and me."
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  • Apple Inc. shares reach ex-dividend as it gears up to distribute $2.9 billion to shareholders

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    baconstang said:
    gmgravytrain said:
    What's really kind of sad is that they're now calling Amazon ($703) to be a $3 trillion company within 10 years and just think a couple of years back Apple was supposed to be the first trillion dollar company and look where it is today.  Barely worth half a trillion dollars and falling fast.  It's very likely Amazon will at least become a trillion dollar company while Apple's stock price continues to fall.  Thanks to Jeff Bezos planning for the future, his company will continue to expand in all directions.  What is Tim Cook doing?  Still trying to sell more iPhones in a smartphone market that's completely saturated.

    Apple had so much money to expand its revenue base but has done almost nothing with it.  AppleWatch is claimed to be a huge failure (I really don't know).  AppleMusic has certainly fallen short of Apple's hoped for 100 million users.  Investors are buying Amazon ($703) like it is a bargain stock and investors won't touch Apple for under $100 a share.  It's really crazy.  I totally don't understand Wall Street but I'm not a big investor so they're probably much smarter than I am.  I sure wish I could see the distant future as well as those big investors can but it's difficult for me to see past tomorrow.  To me, Apple still seems like a solid company but yet it's become a poisoned investment to most of Wall Street.  Apple's investment competition is just too good.  They're always devising ways to sell themselves to investors while Apple seems to be driving investors away.  It's just downright weird how Apple has fallen so fast and still retains a large and loyal customer base.
    Basically, you're conflating Apple with AAPL.  Two different things, with two different goals.
    I think you're correct and it's a problem that happens a lot.  People say "Apple is doing terribly" whereas it's usually the case that Apple is doing fine but AAPL is under-performing.  And yes, there is a relationship between the two, and yes, AAPL does affect employee morale, but still, the relationship is weak.  The market behaves much like a drunk, hysterical adolescent.   A lot of nonsense arguments are made when Apple and AAPL are conflated.  Steve Jobs hardly cared about AAPL at all, in fact he was almost contemptuous of the market.  Tim Cook does care a bit about AAPL, but Apple itself is many times more important.  
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  • Apple Inc. shares reach ex-dividend as it gears up to distribute $2.9 billion to shareholders

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    gmgravytrain said:
    It's really crazy.  I totally don't understand Wall Street but I'm not a big investor so they're probably much smarter than I am.  I sure wish I could see the distant future as well as those big investors can but it's difficult for me to see past tomorrow.  
    You're wrong about those big investors.  They're not so smart.  They're more like drunk, hysterical adolescents

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  • Apple to reveal fiscal Q2 2016 earnings on April 25

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    mcarling said:
    I expect Apple to exceed analysts expectations for Q3 (April to June) due to the iPhone SE, which all the analysts seem to be underestimating.
    Are you saying that on 4/25 we should see a surprisingly high forecast from Apple?
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  • Google's Android revenue $31 billion over OS's entire lifetime, Oracle lawyer says

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    ericthehalfbee said:
    Funny to see people complaining (various forums) about this (the Oracle lawyer publicly speaking details that were supposed to be confidential).

    Yet when Samsung lawyers did the same with Apple (making a statement to the media that shouldn't have been made) it was OK.

    Just shows that hypocrisy continues to reign supreme.
    You have a point.  What gets me is that Google in fact does understand and value privacy.  It's just MY privacy that they don't give a damn about!
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