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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot com Slash podcast. Let's talk Apple right now, Matt.

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Speaker 1: The company yesterday unveiled an updated iPad pro with a

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Speaker 1: faster processor, by G connectivity, upgraded screen, and new cameras.

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Speaker 1: Question is do investors care? Let's bring it on Treney

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Speaker 1: of Boston. He's a senior technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Speaker 1: So on, And as we think about the Apple story here,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the stock, it's you know, flat year

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Speaker 1: to date, you know, really underperforming the market here. What's

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Speaker 1: the story here for Apple right now? Yeah, that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a great question, Paul. Look, I mean we have

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Speaker 1: maintained that Apple works on two prime vectors, right The

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Speaker 1: stock and the company works on two primary vectors. One

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Speaker 1: is iPhone, iPhone shipments, and I think they're set up

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Speaker 1: really well in that regard, and the other is the

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Speaker 1: Juggernaut services franchise, where this is going to be a

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Speaker 1: sixty five billion dollar year just the services franchise. In so,

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Speaker 1: I think that the iPad and the Max are very

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Speaker 1: nice products, and in any other company they were moved

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Speaker 1: the needles substantially and then some. But in the Apple's

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Speaker 1: scope of you know, three d and thirty and forty

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Speaker 1: billion dollars of revenue with the just Go, you're it doesn't. Um,

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Speaker 1: It's it's intrictive, it's additive, but in it of itself,

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Speaker 1: it's not a stand alone vector of leadership. Yeah, about

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Speaker 1: my Mac, I think two thousand or so. I love it,

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Speaker 1: but I don't have any reason to replace it. Like

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Speaker 1: it does everything I needed to perfectly well. Um. But

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Speaker 1: in terms of the services, when you talk about services,

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Speaker 1: I assume you're including, um, you know, the Apple Music, um,

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Speaker 1: What what's the big driver with their services? Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a great question, Matt. Look, the services

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Speaker 1: business has at least eleven subsegments, and we've tried to

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Speaker 1: sort of parse that out. At the Apple Music, Apple

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Speaker 1: their updates yesterday they didn't really even Apple Card doesn't

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Speaker 1: the business. Apple care is it is a very profitable business.

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Speaker 1: it's a very cohesive driver of all the different products

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Speaker 1: the people Apple Care as a driver, I mean, this

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Speaker 1: but then they're making you pay extra to guarantee that

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Speaker 1: If I stomp on my iPhone, I don't expect Aple

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Speaker 1: they have the nice people help borrow whatever it is. Now,

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Speaker 1: the balance sheet here, I'm looking at the financials for

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Speaker 1: that on. Thanks so much for joining us on a

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Speaker 1: Trini vass on their senior semiconductor and hardware analyst for

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence. This is Bloomberg. We were talking precious medals.

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Speaker 1: I want to bring it every moment right now, practious

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Speaker 1: medals specialist at Gainesville Coins. Um. I mean gold is

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Speaker 1: Both platinum and palladium UM are involved in fuel emerging

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Speaker 1: Gainesville coins UH coming to us obviously out of Gainesville, Florida,

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Speaker 1: talking us through what's going on in in gold, what's

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Speaker 1: thanks for setting me straight. Our university specialist, this is Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Now let's bring in David Coudla. He's the CEO and

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Speaker 1: chief investment strategist Mainstay Capital Management is here to talk

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