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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Speak With Jim Cramer on CNBC's 'Mad Money' Tonight

maxsix said:
Sold my stock at just over $700/share. Guess I got lucky on both ends of the deal. Bought a boat load when Apple was young and nearly unknown. Figured at just $20/share I'd gamble. Thanks Apple.
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How did you buy stock when Apple was "young and nearly unknown" when Apple went public in December 1980, after having sold the Apple II for more than two years? Pretty sure that was pretty well-known…

But that's none of my business.
 
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Jakexb said:
That's the thing. Apple still makes the best products in the business. Apple has one slightly down quarter after dominating the entire world of business under Tim Cook's watch and people are trying to get rid of him.
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The S7 is much better than the iPhone 6S, and the Note 5 is much better than the iPhone 6S Plus.

They don't make the best phones in the business. But please, do enlighten everyone else with more lies.
 
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Naysayers get off your computers and do something constructive. Any halfwit can sit on forums and "predict" doom and despair. You are geniuses of forecasting. :rolleyes::D NOT.

Technology markets have heard this utter bollocks every year for as long as technology products have existed. "Apple are going down" - erm, slightly so, but a company which talks about revenues and profits in the TENS OF *BILLIONS* OF DOLLARS, PER QUARTER league, is hardly "going down".

Enjoy your ride on the peaks and troughs rollercoaster of the synthetic values of the stock market.
 
Elian_Gonzalez said:
You mean, profitable? Yes, Tim Cook is doing a terrible job here. What is this weird longing for the Apple of the late 90s, when its survival was not assured at all? The bulk of Apple's profits didn't come from Steve Jobs' tenure (whose record at unveiling new products isn't flawless); they've been accruing rather impressively overall since he died.

But given the near hysterical reaction (and I don't mean "funny") here, it appears that *you* all need to be reassured more than investors do.
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For sure on that.

If one were to subtract out all iPhone sales (65% of Apple's total sales, leaving 35% for everything else), the remaining revenue for Apple over the last 12 months would be in the same ballpark as Microsoft's, around 7% less.
 
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Peace said:
I gotta say man..All these comparisons are very subjective.
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I'll take a phone with MST, prettier design, better cameras, better screen, water resistance, and an SD card slot over what Apple gives us year after year, which is pretty much the same thing.
 
American Hero said:
I better get my popcorn and soda out for this thread... And for the show tonight.

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Jim: "Tim, does your company seem to be going downhill?"

Tim: "Well you see, Jim, we strive to make the best products for our consumers--- even if that means incremental update after incremental update while our competitors are taking risks and making better products than us now. We love how the iPad comes in new colors, how our 'new' iPhones using hardware that's been in storage for four years are excelling in the market, and we love displaying incredibly powerful Macs that run on the weakest hardware possible to save money while selling it for $1,599.00 USD," while scratching his head. "We, at Apple, are doing very well."

Jim: "Why do you think your company is doing well?"

Tim: "Well, Jim, our products have been losing some major market share since I've become CEO, but I like to blame that on market saturation, rather than the fact that I'm not a visionary and I'm pretty much a worthless CEO that isn't capable of driving a tech company, and only good at pinching pennies while we nickel and dime our customers. The fact that we still make billions every quarter means we're doing just fine. Who cares about innovation when you can just ride off of someone else's inventions from six to ten years ago?"

Jim: "Then why has the stocked dropped so much over the last two weeks?"

Tim: "I think the investors are too quick to jump to conclusions about the future here at Apple. We have plenty of exciting products to come [hinting at more incremental color and screen size updates]."
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So... which company do you run?
 
BruceEBonus said:
I agree with and am quite surprised with the cynicism here. But as I keep saying despite the fact I jumped ship to Samsung last year - I won't say "Told you so" until September of this year. That's the make or break point when the iPhone 7 arrives. Unless it is radically different then the people will eventually realise the metaphorical Emperor is naked. If they produce a genuinely new design and innovative product then it'll give them more time.
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iPhone 7 isn't expected to be a new chassis. I plan to hold on to my fully functional and perfectly adequate iPhone 5S until the model after (assuming the rumor mill is correct about the 7). No intention of switching platforms though. I'm comfortable with iOS.
 
No. Tim. Stop.

Go back to your office. Start thinking about products and customer experience. If you don't have a knack for it, start searching for someone who does.

Your products are increasingly boring, convoluted, or laughably overpriced. You need to start focusing on the customer experience.
 
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I guess I must be an optimist. I don't really understand the doom and gloom around Apple. I'm expecting Apple will surprise us quite a bit next month at WWDC and in the fall.
 
American Hero said:
The S7 is much better than the iPhone 6S, and the Note 5 is much better than the iPhone 6S Plus.

They don't make the best phones in the business. But please, do enlighten everyone else with more lies.
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I, and most others, who are choosing iPhone over Samsung would disagree with you.
 
Peace said:
Perhaps I should.

*pondering*

Most profitable = a lot of stuff sold with decent margins.

So Cook seems to be doing a good job. Otherwise they wouldn't sell a lot of stuff with decent margins.
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I, as well as the millions of other part owners of the company would disagree with you.
 
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