Anti-Apple bias? Reader Jeff F writes: Philip, Here's a story idea to expose anti-Apple bias: Samsung's recall is 10x more serious than iPhone 6 bendgate, yet…
A setback for Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. "The explosion, at Cape Canaveral, Fla., intensified questions about whether Mr. Musk is moving too quickly in his…
Stick around to find out where Apple goes from here. "There is a time to disrupt and there is a time to sustain," says Asymco's Horace Dediu. "The…
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But the geographical spread is a mystery to me. My top 5 regions: Nigeria: 1,472 Greater New York City: 1,420 Pakistan: 1,214 Egypt: 1,062 United Arab Emirates: 885…
"We didn’t look for a tax haven or something to put it somewhere." —Tim Cook, to The Washington Post Okay. Maybe Apple didn't go looking for…
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Analysts have started placing their bets. iPhone sales go up and down, but the installed base just keeps growing. Click to enlarge. Not seeing the graphic?…
Apple pays the most taxes, but not at the highest rates. "As our business has grown over the years, we have become the largest taxpayer in Ireland, the…
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Excerpts from the notes I've seen. More as they come in. Kulbinder Garcha, Credit Suisse: Ireland ordered to collect ~$14.5bn from Apple. We would note that from 2003-2014,…
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This is well argued, but the optics are still terrible. A Message to the Apple Community in Europe Thirty-six years ago, long before introducing iPhone, iPod…
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Could expectations for this year's September special event be any lower? Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, as usual, sees a silver lining: "We believe that investor expectations for the iPhone…
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