I don't understand the reasoning here, maybe you can explain it to me. Let's say there are 1 billion shares and Apple buys all but 1, then Apple has all but 1 share, and the individual with that one share still only has one, so that individual still only owns 1 billionth of the company. You seem to imply the share are destroyed if Apple buys them. Couldn't they keep the shares alive and only abolish them once they own them all? That way no individual ever owns the company. For instance, every time a share is bought by Apple, they can give them to the top executives, so that those executives control the company and no one else.
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Apple Stock Price Hits Lowest Levels Since 2011, Falls Below $400
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I don't understand the reasoning here, maybe you can explain it to me. Let's say there are 1 billion shares and Apple buys all but 1, then Apple has all but 1 share, and the individual with that one share still only has one, so that individual still only owns 1 billionth of the company. You seem to imply the share are destroyed if Apple buys them. Couldn't they keep the shares alive and only abolish them once they own them all? That way no individual ever owns the company. For instance, every time a share is bought by Apple, they can give them to the top executives, so that those executives control the company and no one else.
And yet probably everything Apple released last year Steve knew about and/or signed off on. If Steve was still alive and the exact same product line came out would people still be whining about lack of innovation? Because its not like Apple was creating market disrupting products every 6 months on his watch.
Better than when it was a &400, but not as good as it will be in 6 or 8 months when it goes to $250.
I remember reading this last year.
Best advice, EVER!
Not sure what amazed me more at the time - the suggestion or the fact that 19 people "up" voted it!
Love is blind...
Im more amazed that people dont get "igrip" posts.
And yet the HTC One is getting rave reviews for its unibody aluminum construction with chamfered edges.
Btw, it's diamond cut chamfers, not bezel.
With the 6.28% drop in AAPL the market cap. of Apple dropped $25B, the total market cap. of: DELL $24B, YHOO $26B. Apple is so large and volatile that a lower-than-expected revenue forecast from a supplier can dropped the share price by the valve of a large company.
Because Apple thinks that it knows better than the customer what the customer should want.
What makes you think he knows how to run a behemoth of an international conglomerate corporation?
He's a designer, and not a businessman.
Apple cannot "make itself private". A group of hedge funds could, but not Apple itself.
Nothing like this has ever happened. Tim Cook has presided over the largest drop in market value of any company ever in the history of the world.
I was only discussing the claims the person I quoted presented. Ask Amazon about profits. The market isn't always rational. This large companies trade on perception more than anything and that's taken more of a hit than anything else.
What business experience did Steve have? Cook seems to fit the bill and yet we keep hearing calls that he needs to be replaced.
You say it is time to buy again, but you are clearly not an investor yourself.
Stocks rise and fall based on future growth potential, not current results.
Best quarter ever? If you mean worst quarter in a decade for growth you are exactly right...
"Apple Inc. (AAPL) plunged the most in more than four years after posting the slowest profit growth since 2003 and the weakest sales increase in 14 quarters, fueling concern that mounting costs and competition may curtail growth. "
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-23/apple-s-holiday-sales-miss-predictions.html
Profits were flat last quarter, revenue still grew, and no, the market expanding is not lost revenue anyway. Lost revenue share, perhaps, but lost revenue. Lost revenue happens when their revenue goes down...
No comment on your predictions, they are purely speculative anyway.
Exactly. What today's drop shows it that Apple's stock price is based on the success of iPhones and to a slightly lesser extent iPad. Apple is predominately an iOS company. Lower-than-expected revenue forecast from an iPhone supplier caused this drop. If Apple announced that they were discontinuing the MacPro the stock wouldn't move 6%.
For me the size is a minor thing. It is the battery life of the iPhone 5 that sucks. I need to constantly charge it or to have an extended battery pack otherwise it surely dies at around 7-8pm, according to my own experience and several people around me. I think it is around 20% less than the iPhone 4S.
It's a natural rebalance more that a dramatic drop!
I mean come on we had tech revolutions that enabled the iphone, it was not a new idea. Apple only brought the elements together and smashed the competition for a few years up until about 2010 when others caught up, I think that apple stocks natural level is around the 350-400 mark so once it hits 350 if it does then it's a must invest time again to keep for 5-7 years then sell again.
There is a global tech slow in phones at the moment no one is bringing new products that everyone needs. Apple has almost flooded the market, an ipad is not now a must have upgrade like it was from the first gen. same with the iphone is true.
The current tech is the isssue now. For example no matter what anyone says 1080p at 5 inch is overkill, 350ppi is max needed for any screen size ever. Camera quality is not improving with mega pixels no matter what anyone claims, quality optical design is the only way not stats.
Same is true with processors which don't need quad cores or any more ghz but instead should just be coded better as bad code on any speed will cause glitches and judders. GFX are really at an amazing point where we are only a few gens away from photo realistic rendering and there now with good code.
Battery tech is at it's current limit with lithium ion.
No one needs NFC and all the extra gimmicks samsung etc are trying to shift as self proclaimed revolutions either.
The phone has reached it's current tech evolution for the next 3-5 years, there is no advantage to spec bumps that are possible, they are not needed at all and are detrimental to other aspects that are currently more important such as battery life responsiveness etc.
Time will tell but Apple is more likely to make a new product based on what they have done for the phone market than spec bump like everyone else is doing.
I mean come on we had tech revolutions that enabled the iphone, it was not a new idea. Apple only brought the elements together and smashed the competition for a few years up until about 2010 when others caught up, I think that apple stocks natural level is around the 350-400 mark so once it hits 350 if it does then it's a must invest time again to keep for 5-7 years then sell again.
There is a global tech slow in phones at the moment no one is bringing new products that everyone needs. Apple has almost flooded the market, an ipad is not now a must have upgrade like it was from the first gen. same with the iphone is true.
The current tech is the isssue now. For example no matter what anyone says 1080p at 5 inch is overkill, 350ppi is max needed for any screen size ever. Camera quality is not improving with mega pixels no matter what anyone claims, quality optical design is the only way not stats.
Same is true with processors which don't need quad cores or any more ghz but instead should just be coded better as bad code on any speed will cause glitches and judders. GFX are really at an amazing point where we are only a few gens away from photo realistic rendering and there now with good code.
Battery tech is at it's current limit with lithium ion.
No one needs NFC and all the extra gimmicks samsung etc are trying to shift as self proclaimed revolutions either.
The phone has reached it's current tech evolution for the next 3-5 years, there is no advantage to spec bumps that are possible, they are not needed at all and are detrimental to other aspects that are currently more important such as battery life responsiveness etc.
Time will tell but Apple is more likely to make a new product based on what they have done for the phone market than spec bump like everyone else is doing.
Here's what I think Apple should offer for their iPhone line:
1. A "re-imagined" iPhone 4S with a 3.5" screen but with a non-glass back. It will be GSM/CDMA/TD-SCDMA only and will sell at a very reasonable unlocked price.
2. The iPhone 5S, essentially an iPhone 5 but with faster internals and an NFC radio/antenna subsystem.
3. A new, 5.5" 'phablet' iPhone with optional stylus input with fast internals and an NFC radio/antenna subsystem.