Tim Cook took over Apple 5 years ago yesterday...

He's an Aubie. frick em.

Well they certainly are not innovating any more.

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Google

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Alphabet

and thats whats sad, apples ecosystem is so sticky and people absolutely love it. They could do literally anything and have fans. Google did nest, apple could take over the home in no time. Apple could launch a TV with its ecosystem built in, they could launch a netflix competitor, they could launch a streaming service with select channels. The possibilities are endless with their cash pile. Tim does nothing till someone forces his hand, carl icahn came in, ranted about a dividend and got it, then he bolted. Then tim wants to foray into cars, and rumors are everywhere project titan has been horrible lots of firings going on and once again tim looks silly.

Changing iphone colors and sizes is not innovating, obviously you cant innovate forever with a product like the iphone but apple should be out making acquisitions and trying to grow. Sitting on $200B+ in cash isnt doing much when sales are declining and alphabet has 85% market share in your biggest market. The dividend was silly, nobody was gonna bully steve jobs into paying a dividend. Sure apple has cash but it should be deployed to grow organically not artificially with buybacks and dividend boosts. Thats what you do when you're done growing. Google isnt paying out dividends, and they actually changed the share structure to avoid the nonsense apple got from icahn and einhorn about it.

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Google is basically a mutual fund

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I wouldn't invest in a 0% fund

well thats too bad because berkshire hathaway also never paid a dividend and that worked out great for investors. What is google up since its IPO? LOL if you think coca cola or ATT is a better investment bc of a little dividend. If you're savvy enough you can sell a covered call vs your gool stock if you must have a dividend, but overall a dividend is a sign of a company having nothing better to do with its cash so it gives that cash back to you, google and its leadership have better ways to invest that capital and generate significant ROIC. LOL the company is worth almost $600B and just had 25% YoY growth in the last quarter LMFAO please find me a solid dividend payer that could do the same most of the solid dividend payers are barely growing earnings yoy, barely is an understatement at that.

Do you realize that Alphabet not only own the #1 and #2 websites on earth traffic wise in google and youtube, but they also have 85% of the worlds smartphone market via their operating system android which now is going to PCs as well. I just read they have 97% market share in india WOW thats one of the big markets of the future. Then the apps, my god the data google possesses in maps and other data is staggering. Lets not forget their massive lead in self learning, their bot just beat a chinese grand wizard at whatever that game was I forgot. Then the self driving cars, the robotics, hell even the investments in things like Magic Leap which is probably the next big thing in augmented reality. The google ventures arm has some amazing investments, they just made 15x on the jet.com acquisition and invested in 7% of uber at a $3B valuation thats now $60B. They own 10% of spaceX which is a monster of the future and countless other seed investments in stars of the future. Berkshire hathaway part 2 really.I seriously get wood thinking of everything google has and has coming in the pipeline. What does Apple have coming? an iphone 7 which every analyst said has nothing new really but wireless headphones? LOL. Apple might be working on a search engine I read, I cant imagine how smooth that will run with a beachball popping up every 5 seconds.

Tim Cook could lead apple to the promised land but he's currently only interested in maintaining the status quo, not innovating.Dividend or not, google is superior to apple as a company at this point, apple is just printing cash but that is in decline as the last quarter showed us.

His second to last post was pretty spot on.

Apple has the cash and followers to literally do whatever they want, yet they continue to sit on their hands or twiddle their thumbs.

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beats by dre for $3B lolololol for headphones???? good lord

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This was mostly for the music streaming app BTW

please enlighten me on all the big acquisitions apple has made. Off the top of my head google ventures has stakes in over 30 hypergrowth opportunities. From medicine in editas to transportation in uber to robotics to messaging apps like slack which will IPO soon. What are the gamechanging investments apple has made? Google has $75B in cash, Apple has over $200B in cash yet Google is running circles around apple in terms of investments. Dont you think apple should step up their investment game? Google is trading at 30x earnings with limitless growth in the coming years meanwhile apple trade 12x earnings and barely got there on a big move up recently with earnings estimates constantly being revised downwards.

I own both stocks, just saying apple is no longer a growth name, and tim cook is mostly to blame, he's just not the leader a tech company needs. This is apple, the once most dominant brand on earth, this isnt coca cola where minor tweaks will keep you on top. Apple is still super popular, I have an iphone, its a better product in my opinion, but thats not to say apple is the better company because it isnt.

They've bought 70 companies just based on the single source I used just now. APPL doesn't trumpet from the high heavens every time they make an acquisition.

They bought the company that produced Siri, and also the company that helped them develop Apple Maps. They also purchased Beats, which is funny because you think they did it for the brand of headphones and not the streaming music service and the relationships with the music business that have allowed Apple Music to flourish quickly.

The same source I reference-which took two seconds and a Google search (you should be familiar with that based on your comments here)-also indicated they bought 15 or 16 companies in the past 4 quarters. Ranging from companies that focus on synthesizers and sound production to mapping to machine learning, deep learning, GPS navigation and mobile camera making.

But please. Tell us why APPL-a company who already embedded a product in the users living room with speech recognition software and a home automation solution along with apps for content delivery-needs to make blockbuster acquisitions.

I'm not defending APPL or denigrating GOOG here. I'm more so trying to call into question your obviously slanted viewpoints like the total lack of acknowledgement that Apple has made a slew of important acquisitions across the board that are applicable to its business as well as current and future innovation.

They aren't buying Tesla. They aren't buying Twitter. They don't really need to at this point. But that you think they aren't innovating is cute.

You realize over the weekend, an artist you've probably never heard of used Apple Music to totally upend the music industry and potentially shift how musicians release their work? Potentially changing the standard model that streaming and exclusives have already pushed the envelope on?

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