What;s your metric for innovations? Profits? Then, I guess, Exxon Mobil is the most innovative company in the World. If, on the other hand, we look at the more conventional metrics like the number of patents granted and the size of of R&D budget, Samsung leaves APple in the dust.
And what makes you think I care about what Apple thinks? This is not Apple employee forum. Many people here have AAPL shares. They definitely care about share price.
Samsung and their 137 page booklet "how to copy the iPhone". Yes, that's innovation.
As far as the share price is concerned, most shareholders have figured out by now that Apple's strategy of not giving a damn what Wallstreet thinks is exactly what has put money into their pockets.
And there are more US tax payers than Apple share holders. The US tax payers probably know that it is their taxes that paid for bailouts that made the likes of Einhorn rich. Many people would be very, very happy if Cook had kicked him where it hurts literally, not figuratively.
Having been involved in an ungodly number of acquisitions, finding ones worth doing is very hard. Particularly large acquisitions: even for companies that do the analysis and do it well, the track record is pretty dismal. The ones statistically most likely to succeed are small and targeted, usually aligned on technologies and skills rather than products.
Here's what a man whose company is worth about one percent of Apple told me (in an employee meeting): "When you have lots of money in the bank, and Wall Street tells you that you should acquire other companies, remember this: The bank is a very, very good place for your money to be".
For big acquisitions, look at the losses that Microsoft and HP made. Apple has to sell an awful lot of iPhones to make as much money as Microsoft and HP lost an acquisitions.
As a CEO Tim Cook report to shareholders. Several more interviews like that and he might be giving interviews in a different capacity.Only in Apple distortion field $6 drop in price is not called "going down". Is it going up?
I don't think you are actually clueless. I think it is all intentional with you. Here's a clue: Look at the share price ten years ago. Look at Apple's strategy since then. And then tell me how incredibly stupid an investor would have to be to want to change Apple's strategy.