Google's revenues are 90% from advertising. I'd say that's a one trick pony. It's just a pony Wall Street happens to like.
Really? What was a wow factor outside of iPhone?
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Google Surpasses Apple as World's Most Valuable Company
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Too bad it doesn't run any of the "pro" applications that most pros have come to rely upon.
You hit the nail on the head for me. Not that Apple is doomed either but they could make some minor tweaks and make a lot of people happy.
Stock price and company valuation should be based on fundamentals not speculative moon shots. The vast majority of Alphabet revenue comes from Google, which is 90% advertising. I don't disagree that Apple is undervalued because of perception. But Google's stock price didn't jump today because of moo shots that are basically moneypits.
Without oil, where would tech companies be? Or, if you have a solution to the miracle oil has been, I suspect we're all open to reading ideas...
Possibly. More power for the buck allows content creators to be that much more efficient. But Apple's not exactly embraced and hugged the business world before, and its profit margin would drop (but not by too much, oddly) if it had.
Remember, PC builders can find better performing hardware than the comparable Mac and it'd be considerably lower in cost, and built to last with liquid cooling, larger and better placement of fans, and so on. Yes, it runs Windows or Linux - but it's not the OS but the apps that run on the OS. Which is also why BeOS failed and it beats the snot out of anything else, especially FreeBSD (which OSX and IOS are built on).
Assuming people have money to spend. The other news articles keep reminding us of stagnating wages, higher cost of living, jobs vanishing, jobs offshoring, and the continual spiral that people seem to enjoy.
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The market doesn't agree since it reacts more to speculation, which is great because it means higher returns for those owning the most stock - meaning those who don't rely on 401k plans since those are nothing.
One thing is for sure, Rogifan will not get a goodnight sleep tonight.
I'm looking at the multitudes who keep buying 16GB and spinning hard drives. Why would Apple change?
Good and I hope to see APPL tank further. Ultimately this will be what gets rid of Cook. I'm sure he's a nice guy but he's boring as bat **** and cares far too much about stock price and investors and shareholders and profits.
Jobs famously said he doesn't care about Wall St. I want to see a designer at the helm who's willing to stand up to shareholders and rebuild some goodwill.
Jobs famously said he doesn't care about Wall St. I want to see a designer at the helm who's willing to stand up to shareholders and rebuild some goodwill.
It's all up to them. Do they care more about profits or lasting impressions?
Why, good opportunity for me to buy more Apple stock.
Anyway let's see where Google stock ends up tomorrow. It was up $50 right after earnings were announced but has come down $30 since.Hmmmm. A huge pain you say? So Dropbox or Photosync doesn't work - weird. They both work seamlessly for me
When people stop buying, Apple will change. And the answer to your question is obviously profits.
I never said it would. I'm well aware of the technical limitations of the platform. It would require all the programs to be recompiled to run on the ARM platform. Or Alternatively, Running emulated (like how APple emulated PPC for OS9 legacy in the early OSx days)
For Apple to achieve the 'dream' some people have of making an iPad that could run desktop applications, with current day technology, Apple would have to either go the re-compile route, or switch the iPad Pro to use an x86 based CPU, likely Core M.
That would be foolish. as you'd essentially have two seperate "iPad" platforms to support.
I guess the general consensus at Mac Rumors is, how much a company is valued at doesn't matter... Unless Apple is winning that metric, then it's very meaningful.
Yes, Android was originally started in large part so that Google could compete against Microsoft possibly using Windows Mobile to make Bing the biggest mobile search engine.
Can't crush a market you're not in. The Apple Watch wasn't intended to, nor does it, compete directly with Android Wear. And vice versa.
Sure. Ads are like death and taxes, a good bet to exist forever. Smartphones and tablets, not so much
That's why I said it's all up to them. They obviously care more about profits, so there's nothing else to further discuss about this.
Have Apple peaked? What, who, how and why - I don't care.
Financial markets are all about speculation and as much as something might or might not be on paper the stock brokers just about turn to the horoscopes to predict things, so I read this article with as much interest as I care about who posted what on Facebook about them picking their nose and sharing it with the world.
Financial markets are all about speculation and as much as something might or might not be on paper the stock brokers just about turn to the horoscopes to predict things, so I read this article with as much interest as I care about who posted what on Facebook about them picking their nose and sharing it with the world.
Really?
Apple is killing it and here are the FACTS! Google can only dream that some day they will hit these numbers.
Last Quarter just reported by both companies.
Google AKA alphabet a whopping 21.3B revenue WOW and a hold on now. a huge 4.9B Profit.
Apple had just 79.3B Rev and 18.4 BILLION in profit!!! That was the LARGEST EVER for any company EVER!!
So to compare it took Apple only 24 days just over 3 weeks into the quarter to make MORE profit then Google.
Apple made approx 204M profit PER DAY!!
Selling 35,000 iPhone per hour every day 24 hours a day 7 days a week for 90 days. And you experts have all these reasons APPL is doomed.
Every company in the world can only hope to be this doomed!
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And those wouldn't run on ARM anyway.
Apple wants to make iOS their only OS, I think they've made that clear enough.
Have they? They've pretty much said that they aren't going to make a hybrid machine and that iOS is for mobile computing and OS is for desktops/laptops.
I don't think they'll move to just iOS... for a very long time, if ever.
The only real flop Apple has had in the last few years is that battery case.
Everything else has been awesome.
Google, on the other hand, flops with a lot of stuff, and search is still their top business.
Everything else has been awesome.
Google, on the other hand, flops with a lot of stuff, and search is still their top business.
Why did you ignore the Mac Pro?
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Don't worry, despite what you think and what Apple says will be very different from what Apple WILL DO.
It's not difficult to see Apple's had a major hard-on for iOS, for whatever reason, but if they ever enforce that garbage on desktops, I'm out of the Apple world for good, not even going to bother with Hackintoshes either and it's not to say that they've already SCREWED OS X. Green button = full screen on a DESKTOP with a big screen? What for?! Root in El Capitan? As if we had SO many problems before without it! A plethora of more limited choices in OS X on top of those too.
Apple's basically given all of you a giant slap to the face. What's incredible is that nearly ALL of you deliberately ignore it.
To be honest... I don't care. I really can't wait for Apple to buy itself back. I'm sick of Wall Street.
I think in general smart watches have been a flop. They haven't been revolutionary, nor have they been game changing. In a sea of mediocre watches, Apple's is quite the best though.
I'm really hoping the second version adds health sensors or something to give it that must have appeal. As it stands, it's just a nice accessory.