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What Tim Cook Took From Steve Jobs To Get Apple To $750 Billion

... Write your own rules.". That's a direct descendant of Jobs' emphasis on promoting managers who were creative people themselves, rather than the "bozos" he said Apple had hired when it opted for professional managers late in his first stint at the company. Cook once told an interviewer that his ideal worker is someone who has an idea late at night and calls him to talk about it, because the worker can't wait, and also because that worker should understand they'll need help to develop the idea into a polished product. Getty Images. Doing a few things well. Under Jobs, Apple's penchant for streamlined design extended to its product line, which was notable for having relatively few products — the i Phone, which contributes more than half of Apple's sales in a typical quarter; the i Pad; the Macintosh computer line and the i Pod. Plus, a services business that is mostly tied to supporting the others. Cook has added to that list, most notably with the $3.2 billion deal to buy headphone-maker Beats and the Apple Watch, but has moved slowly in areas like ...

Apple Refreshes Apple Watch Bands And Iphone Cases With New Colors For Spring

... band in “lime epsom” and “colvert swift” (chartreuse and teal, basically); a $489 38 mm double tour leather band in “bleu zéphyr epsom” (a robin’s egg blue); and a $689 38 mm leather double buckle cuff in “fauve barenia” (I had to Google this, but it’s a classic English saddle shade). If you buy the Apple Watch Series 2 with the double buckle cuff (which starts at $1149), you’ll also get an exclusive orange Hermès Sport band for free. You can order all of those bands online today from Apple or Hermès in the U. S., U. K., Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. i Phone accessory lovers won’t be left out of Apple’s spring style refresh. Starting today, Apple is offering three new shades of silicone i Phone 7 and 7 Plus cases and three leather options starting at $35. Apple is all about color this season, with a bright red i Phone 7 joining the lineup today, too. If a brand new phone is out of your budget, a new case is ...

Apple’s Learn-to-code App Swift Playgrounds Adds 5 More Languages

... in the home, and is a platform they’re familiar with from the many hours spent playing games. Swift Playgrounds tries to make learning to code more fun, with its two-panel design featuring code on the left and the results of that code on the right — often a game that looks a lot like those kids have played for years. In addition, by opting for the i Pad for its app, Apple can focus on its entry points into schools — something it noted in today’s announcement of Swift Playgrounds’ expansion. The company said that the updated app is the “perfect companion” to the new, entry-level 9.7- inch i Pad, starting at $329, also announced this morning. The idea here is to make i Pads more affordable, in order to get them into more customers’ hands — including educational institutions, where they can become a part of the curriculum. The added Swift Playgrounds languages were chosen strategically where Apple wants to grow a developer base well-versed in Swift, particularly ...

Apple’s App Store Gets A Makeover

... are the App Store, where revenue increased by 40 percent to $8.6 billion, and the Apple Music subscription service, whose sales surged to $1.6 billion in its first full year, according to estimates from Gene Munster, who runs Loup Ventures and covered Apple as an analyst for many years. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has been talking up the services business in quarterly conference calls. “We expect the revenues to be the size of a Fortune 100 company this year,” he said in January, predicting that the business, which include i Tunes and Apple Care, will double in size by 2021. Apple shares rose less than 1 percent to $142.34 at 10:45 a.m. in New York. For years, app developers have complained that Apple dictated what they could and couldn't do and rarely explained the decision-making process. Kushal Dave, who was once a senior engineer at Four Square and is now working on a new project, says small apps just starting out were particularly vulnerable and could get "totally stuck at any given time" because so much was up to "Apple’s whim.". Apple ...

New 9.7-inch Ipad Features Stunning Retina Display And Incredible Performance

... Picture-in-Picture help you do even more. Pricing and Availability. i Pad comes in silver, gold and space gray and starts at $329 (US) for the 32 GB with Wi-Fi model and $459 (US) for the 32 GB Wi-Fi + Cellular model at __link__ and Apple Stores. For more information, please visit __link__/ipad. i Pad is available to order beginning Friday, March 24, from __link__ and starts delivering to customers and arriving next week in Apple Stores, through select carriers and Apple Authorized Resellers (prices may vary) in the US and more than 20 countries and regions, including Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Denmark, India, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Turkey and other countries and regions will follow in April. Brazil, Taiwan and other countries and regions will follow in May. Polyurethane Smart Covers for i Pad are available for $39 (US) in charcoal gray, white, midnight blue, pink sand and (RED) at __link__ and Apple Stores. i Pad mini 4 , available in silver, gold and ...

Apple Is A Top 5 Holding

... Investing ). The 5-year data provided by Better Investing indicates that Apple's high yield was 3.0% at one point during 2013. The current yield is a relatively low 1.6%. Apple is expected to announce a dividend increase this month. The current P/E of 16.7 is well above the 5-year average P/E of 12.8. Simply Safe Dividends. Simply Safe Dividends provides a helpful snapshot of Apple's safety, growth and yield, showing that for safety and growth, Apple is above the 90 th percentile of corporations, but with a relatively low yield. (Safety, Growth and Yield table from Simply Safe Dividends ). Tim Cook. Apple's current Chief Executive Officer is Tim Cook, who joined Apple in 1998 and succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO after Jobs' death in 2011. Prior to serving as CEO, Cook was Apple's Chief Operating Officer. Earlier, he had a 12-year career at IBM, then he served as COO at Intelligent Electronics and finally (for six months) at Compaq as Vice President of Corporate Materials, procuring and managing product inventory. As COO of ...

My Nightmare Is Called Apple Imessage Stories

... be fun to do every day on the site. So, every day this week I’m sitting down and writing some notes on the news as though I’ll be talking about it later. Are you into this? Am I into this? I don’t know. But it’s fun to do! Give me some feedback and we’ll keep mutating this into something good. I got sick at SXSW last week so Show Notes fell off a bit. but I’m back! And only slightly loaded up on cough syrup! Lots to talk about today, and some stuff from the end of last week I want to touch on as well. Let’s get to it. THE ENTIRE ARGUMENT FOR NET NEUTRALITY TO EXIST. Lauren Goode spent two days with Netflix leading up to the launch of Iron Fist. (Which appears to be just terrible.) But she learned a lot about Netflix’s future plans, including recutting shows specifically for mobile and replacing the five-star rating system with thumbs-up and thumbs-down. Lauren was also the only journalist to press Reed Hastings on net ...

Apple Shares Hit High On Hardware Buzz

... A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Apple shares hit high on hardware buzz. Jon Swartz , USA TODAY Published 7:34 p.m. ET March 20, 2017 | Updated 9:19 p.m. ET March 20, 2017. 168 Shares. i Phone inventories fell month over month to just under four days from five days in January, according to Pacific Crest Securities. Video provided by The Street Newslook. SAN FRANCISCO — Apple shares hit new heights Monday amid reports it was about to unveil its first hardware product announcement of the year. The prospect of new i Pads as early as this week sent Apple's stock ( AAPL ) up 1% to $141.46 per share. "Any new device launch bumps the stock," says Angelo Zino, an analyst at CFRA Research who expects a new batch of i Pads. Apple did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on new products. Can new i Pads turbo-charge the slumping tablet market. But there is more to Apple's stock ascent than shiny new tablets, Zino and other financial analysts point out. The stock has been benefiting from a strong holiday quarter and by billionaire investor Warren Buffett's increased stake. The investor's Berkshire ...

Apple Worth $750 Billion. Next Stop? $1 Trillion

... Phone 8. But given that this is the tenth anniversary of the iconic device, some expect/hope that Apple will do like the National Football League does with Super Bowls and brand the new phone with a Roman numeral - the i Phone X. There are lots of rumors about new bells and whistles that this phone could have. No home button. Wireless charging. More augmented and/or virtual reality capabilities. A curvier screen like the original i Phone. Facial recognition scanning. Whatever the new i Phone looks like, it's clear that there is now a lot of pressure on the company to sell gajillions of them. Despite efforts to diversify its revenue stream, Apple still relies on the i Phone for nearly 70% of its sales. New i Pads released Tuesday morning won't move the needle that much. Neither will any new iterations of the Apple Watch or its line of Mac computers. Related: Apple's new Clips app lets you make social media-friendly videos. Apple also unveiled a snazzy (and pricey) new special edition Red i Phone 7 and i Phone Plus Tuesday. It's a partnership with (RED) - the charitable organization that raises money and awareness for the fight against ...

Noted Apple Bear Raises Price Target To $160, Saying Users Have Been Holding Out For The Iphone 8

... it's unclear whether it will be a growth company in five years. But on Tuesday, Sacconaghi said Apple's stock is relatively cheap by some of Wall Street's measures. Plus, he added, Apple is poised to benefit "significantly" from potential changes in the laws for bringing back foreign cash. Though Apple has long had a mountain of cash on hand, investors now see it as more valuable, Sacconaghi said. "Apple might use repatriated cash to do a large buyback," Sacconaghi said. "I think Apple's instinct would be to bring it all back.". Apple announced a new app, Clips , on Tuesday, that offers video filters similar to Instagram and Snapchat. While Snapchat plays in augmented reality, Apple's revenue opportunity in AR may look more like "Pokemon Go," Sacconaghi said. "I certainly see it as an opportunity. I don't know if it is ultimately Apple's biggest opportunity," Sacconaghi said. "But what we could have with augmented reality is much more significant and immersive experiences, particularly in gaming. ...