Since84
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Post by Since84 on Jun 16, 2017 2:27:55 GMT -8
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Post by phoebear611 on Jun 16, 2017 4:37:56 GMT -8
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Post by aaplcrazie on Jun 16, 2017 4:58:37 GMT -8
Ha Phoebear611 you beat me to to it! also mentioned in The Times: tinyurl.com/ybldt588 This is about to get interesting....
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Post by tuffett on Jun 16, 2017 6:22:37 GMT -8
Planet of the Apps is a pretty cool show. There is potential for Apple Music to become a hybrid of Spotify and Netflix, and that would be highly valuable when integrated tightly into the Apple ecosystem. However, their rate of content production needs to increase by orders of magnitude to even have a chance of competing. An acquisition of a large media company would certainly speed things up.
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Post by joel90069 on Jun 16, 2017 6:31:48 GMT -8
AMZN to buy WFM. Brilliant move. AAPL being used as an ATM this morning for those who want to move into AMZN?
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Post by hledgard on Jun 16, 2017 7:03:56 GMT -8
I still don't understand why Apple is getting into content, and what its advantage would be for Apple over its rivals.
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chinacat
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Post by chinacat on Jun 16, 2017 7:10:25 GMT -8
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Post by gtrplyr on Jun 16, 2017 7:12:38 GMT -8
Not suggesting that Apple should have purchased Whole Foods BUT Apple has been sitting on an enormous mountain of cash and has done NOTHING with it .... As great as they are in developing products IMHO they have dropped the ball on acquisitions .... Waze, Netflix, Tesla, Spotify, Nest, Sonos, Control4 .... ANY of those would have given Apple tremendous advantages. Instead they buy Beats and get a couple of "music moguls" that have done NOTHING .... I could do a better job setting up iTunes streaming service. Kind of frustrating watching the AMZN machine literally gobble up the world ......
I'd love to hear other's opinions on this.
Cheers to the longs .....
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Post by gtrplyr on Jun 16, 2017 7:32:19 GMT -8
Just to add: My choice would be to buy Tesla .... with Tesla's product knowledge (EV , Battery, Solar) and Apple's money and manufacturing knowledge they could simply destroy the car market as we know it. Just the ability to control the environment and eco system while people are in their cars would be worth BILLIONS if leveraged properly.
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Post by appledoc on Jun 16, 2017 7:54:23 GMT -8
AMZN to buy WFM. Brilliant move. AAPL being used as an ATM this morning for those who want to move into AMZN? The move in WMT was a great example of when to actually BTFD. It's an emotional selloff, not stopping to think of the drastically different customers that Whole Foods and Walmart sell groceries to.
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stub
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Post by stub on Jun 16, 2017 10:26:17 GMT -8
Not suggesting that Apple should have purchased Whole Foods BUT Apple has been sitting on an enormous mountain of cash and has done NOTHING with it .... As great as they are in developing products IMHO they have dropped the ball on acquisitions .... Waze, Netflix, Tesla, Spotify, Nest, Sonos, Control4 .... ANY of those would have given Apple tremendous advantages. Instead they buy Beats and get a couple of "music moguls" that have done NOTHING .... I could do a better job setting up iTunes streaming service. Kind of frustrating watching the AMZN machine literally gobble up the world ...... I'd love to hear other's opinions on this. Cheers to the longs ..... Amazon is better poised to squeeze more money out of the Grocery Biz because of their home delivery/automation logistics savvy. I think it won't really work out for them as good as they think though. They don't realize the produce (likes to be carefully selected) and has to be weighed. Duhhh. It will be somewhat of a positive for them financially though. I worry that the acquisition will cause Whole Foods produce (what's left of the untainted food supply in this country) with GMO poison soon. GMO it's gut leakin' good! For those who don't know why GMO is bad for you, after several years of it in your diet it causes one's gut to leak causing one's immune system to turn on one's own body, and effectively shortening one's life span (the goal). And speaking as a former Music Biz guy, the Beats acquisition is pure politics. It's not that Beats is so great, it's that Apple was buying the people (behind the scenes) that might get in Apple's way (in the music industry). The purpose of the pile of cash is to eventually enhance the stock price, which is why I'm long.
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chinacat
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Post by chinacat on Jun 16, 2017 13:57:17 GMT -8
They don't realize the produce (likes to be carefully selected) and has to be weighed. Duhhh. I do not think this is true. I know people who get produce via the Amazon Fresh offering.
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Post by zzmac on Jun 16, 2017 20:58:54 GMT -8
Not suggesting that Apple should have purchased Whole Foods BUT Apple has been sitting on an enormous mountain of cash and has done NOTHING with it .... As great as they are in developing products IMHO they have dropped the ball on acquisitions .... Waze, Netflix, Tesla, Spotify, Nest, Sonos, Control4 .... ANY of those would have given Apple tremendous advantages. Instead they buy Beats and get a couple of "music moguls" that have done NOTHING .... I could do a better job setting up iTunes streaming service. Kind of frustrating watching the AMZN machine literally gobble up the world ...... I'd love to hear other's opinions on this. Cheers to the longs ..... Amazon is better poised to squeeze more money out of the Grocery Biz because of their home delivery/automation logistics savvy. I think it won't really work out for them as good as they think though. They don't realize the produce (likes to be carefully selected) and has to be weighed. Duhhh. It will be somewhat of a positive for them financially though. I worry that the acquisition will cause Whole Foods produce (what's left of the untainted food supply in this country) with GMO poison soon. GMO it's gut leakin' good! For those who don't know why GMO is bad for you, after several years of it in your diet it causes one's gut to leak causing one's immune system to turn on one's own body, and effectively shortening one's life span (the goal). And speaking as a former Music Biz guy, the Beats acquisition is pure politics. It's not that Beats is so great, it's that Apple was buying the people (behind the scenes) that might get in Apple's way (in the music industry). The purpose of the pile of cash is to eventually enhance the stock price, which is why I'm long. Now I get it.
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