As a CEO of a publicly traded company he is doing exactly what shareholders want. He isn't worried what the fringe Apple customers, who are members of this forum, want.
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Apple Hits $4 Trillion Market Value, Joining Nvidia and Microsoft
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Being profitable is a requirement for all businesses. It is necessary.
4 trillion and they can't afford to pay their AI staff and lose them to competing companies whilst losing traction on their AI efforts
So did the Plus and now Air, which is why they kept trying different things for that 4th phone
Same for Vision Pro.
this is just tech bro financial manipulations while offering up very little innovation.
I like that "MacRanters" logo, it's appropriate for this forum.
It will dip back down next year as I won't be buying any new products.
I have to admit, this made me laugh.
Tech Bro Financial manipulation didn’t drive the market value to 4 trillion. 🤣🤣
Actually it’s only like 2% increase since last December. The whole market tanked and rose back up.
That would require the chips (M ones at least) to support UEFI and I doubt Apple is willing to change their architecture to support that.
P.S. no UEFI support is the real reason why native booting of Windows ARM is not possible, not Microsoft's agreement with Qualcomm.
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I don't think they would sell the chips even if they didn't have to do anything but sell the spares. 😂
But if they needed to create a new "business" they could do that and make it a trillion dollar business by itself.
Agreed. not-Apple wouldn't buy the chips because they can't make it work with the proprietary firmware; Apple wouldn't sell because they don't want to haha
Wall Street looks for future revenue and marketshare "value", in particular iPhone and how well the new lineup sells and then also in specific markets like eg China. They're looking for longterm growth opportunities ...
Staggering. And growing exponentially.
Said another way: none of the whining, complaining, Steve never would having, Tim's gotta going, bring back iPhone mini-ing, Transparency spidering, side-loading, walled gardening - none of it has any bearing on anything at Apple. At the end of the day, Apple's gonna Apple. With and without you/me/us. The System is working as designed.
Said another way: none of the whining, complaining, Steve never would having, Tim's gotta going, bring back iPhone mini-ing, Transparency spidering, side-loading, walled gardening - none of it has any bearing on anything at Apple. At the end of the day, Apple's gonna Apple. With and without you/me/us. The System is working as designed.
You raise a fantastic point. You’d think with 4 trillion they could hire a better software department instead of the current one that releases more bugs and issues than the ones they fix.
If you look at stock prices over the past year, a previous peak of around $259 was reached last December. The current peak is only $9, or ~3.5%, higher. So, I'm not sure where you are measuring from. If you want to know why the market is valuing Apple higher, you have to look at the fact that estimates are currently that Apple revenue will increase about 4% for FY 2025, net profit margin is estimated to increase 2-3% (likely due to service revenues), the money supply has increased (there is 4.7% more money chasing stocks this year than last), etc. etc.
The product pipeline has been incremental and selling well because of consumer demand and replacement cycles. There are no flopped products, though it appears the iPhone Air is underperforming and could become one. Talk of the Vision Pro being a flop because in only sold ~400k to 500k units is agitprop that ignores analyst reports from before it was introduced that yield issues with Sony displays limited production to around 400k units. The A and M chips are reasons Apple is able to increase the value of its products independent of the rest of the industry.
Good for them. Unless you’re a shareholder who cares? They’re still gonna take all your money even with their stinginess and incompetency. $3500 headset. Failed products. Dumb as a rock Siri/useless AI. Playing catch up. More expensive upcoming MacBook Pros. More ads stuffed into iOS. They’ll keep increasing iPhone prices. RAM starting at 16GB in 2025/2026. Yey…let’s celebrate! /s