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Speaker 3: First, I want to talk about Apple, Yes, my baby.
Speaker 3: Apple announces. Last week they announced the largest style buy
Speaker 3: back ever one hundred and ten billion dollars, and that's
Speaker 3: despite iPhone sales dropping ten percent, stock going up around
Speaker 3: six percent. Booster kind of settled after that, but it's yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's you know, kind of moving in the right direction.
Speaker 3: If you look at this one month chart right back
Speaker 3: covering around one hundred and eighty fifty two weeks high
Speaker 3: was one hundred and ninety nine. So is this does
Speaker 3: this signal that Apple is back? On track.
Speaker 2: Okay, man, well did we just put a mask on
Speaker 2: this thing?
Speaker 1: I think that it was a good move. This is
Speaker 1: the theme of this week. Good move, but not good enough.
Speaker 1: I like to buy back what I would have loved
Speaker 1: to have seen new phone or planned for a new phone.
Speaker 1: To buy back the shares great. Great for investors to
Speaker 1: signal that, hey, I still believe in my own company,
Speaker 1: believe in my stock right. The core issue though, of
Speaker 1: the phone sales not being strong, it's not fixed, so
Speaker 1: you're putting like duct tape over an ocean leak. I
Speaker 1: like it. The stock one up as a result, I'm
Speaker 1: still bullish on it long term, but until that core
Speaker 1: issue it's fixed, I'm not hyper bullish on it. How
Speaker 1: I want to be same like with the Drake thing.
Speaker 1: I want to be like, Yo, Drake did it. Family
Speaker 1: Matters was good. That was the buy back. It was cool,
Speaker 1: it was not great. I think the biggest lesson that
Speaker 1: we're learning from this and Starbucks. We talk about Disney later.
Speaker 1: You have to have products and services that are so
Speaker 1: amazing that your customer base cannot afford to not have them.
Speaker 1: Same would invest Fest. They haven't told me who the
Speaker 1: headline is going to be I can probably guess. But
Speaker 1: where else are you going to see these people in
Speaker 1: our community talk about how they're actually building their businesses.
Speaker 1: They've had billionaires every year. I'm assuming somebody off the billionaire.
Speaker 1: This is going to be there this year. Right, So
Speaker 1: I think Apple got comfortable. I know they're doing things
Speaker 1: with AI. I know Siri will be updated. This is
Speaker 1: what the ten year anniversary of that being acquired. Great acquisition.
Speaker 1: But until they fix this and make this better, I
Speaker 1: think it's a band aid over a cut that really
Speaker 1: needs surgery. But what do you guys think?
Speaker 2: I think it's interesting. I'm with you on on on
Speaker 2: your take. I think the move may have been a
Speaker 2: little bit predictable. I would imagine if they didn't do
Speaker 2: the buy back, and if they didn't increase the giving in,
Speaker 2: what would the stock have done?
Speaker 1: Oh Nelly going down down baby, right?
Speaker 2: And So if I know that's gonna if I I
Speaker 2: already have the numbers, I know that the iPhone sales
Speaker 2: are down. I know services well okay, MacBook was okay,
Speaker 2: iPad was Yeah. If I know that's coming, how do
Speaker 2: I get ahead of it? How do I get ahead
Speaker 2: of it? I have to do something that's going to
Speaker 2: have my shareholders feel confident in the company going forward.
Speaker 2: We haven't really talked about AI yet. Everybody's waiting for
Speaker 2: June seventh. We're not ready to talk about or give
Speaker 2: you any Well, he did say on the phone call
Speaker 2: that they're making leadways in that in that area of
Speaker 2: artificial intelligence. But the anticipation of a down quarter again
Speaker 2: declining sales in the iPhone, I think it was particularly Yeah,
Speaker 2: they had to do something.
Speaker 1: They had.
Speaker 2: They bought back shares, which obviously increases the uh, the
Speaker 2: value of the remaining shares They're going to go up.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it did go up over one eighty. I'm
Speaker 2: interested to see what comes in June. Man, I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm always going to be well, I'm not sure to
Speaker 2: say always. I'm definitely bullish on Apple. I'm just interested
Speaker 2: in what is going to happen. I think there's a
Speaker 2: I feel like when we watched in video report after
Speaker 2: they had that blowout quarter and it felt like, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, can they do it again? Can they do
Speaker 2: it again? That build up of let's see if they
Speaker 2: can do it. I feel like that type of atmosphere,
Speaker 2: that type of temperature around this this June seventh announcement
Speaker 2: is brewing. What is it going to be, how innovative
Speaker 2: is it going to be, and where is it going
Speaker 2: to in the future for the company. So I'm watching
Speaker 2: it closely. I'm watching it closely. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: I'm looking for TV's, I'm looking for something, even the hints.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes they start releasing things early. You go
Speaker 2: to these mac these websites or these OPhone websites. Yeah,
Speaker 2: some like preview or details that got hacked and leaked.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen anything yet, but I'm anticipating this and
Speaker 2: I'm sure they are as well.
Speaker 1: Even a five percent jump for the stock, that's too
Speaker 1: aggressive of a move for a multi trillion dollar company.
Speaker 1: Even today, it's pulling back some as a result. It
Speaker 1: should pull back to maybe one seventy two as a result.
Speaker 1: I still love the stock long term. I'm just not
Speaker 1: super bullish about it. If it gets back to one
Speaker 1: sixty four, it's definitely a by a yad. But they
Speaker 1: have to make a strong announcement in June, like I
Speaker 1: haven't seen Mark Well, I'll talk about anything like the
Speaker 1: tech influencers do you have to create? And I think
Speaker 1: they're going through the same moment that Zuckerberg went through
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, where like your back ends against
Speaker 1: the wall, you have to reshift focus on what matters most.
Speaker 1: I think they're trying to scramble and figure things out now.
Speaker 1: I think they'll they'll get it together about next year.
Speaker 1: But the summer is gonna be interesting for them, to
Speaker 1: say the least, because even Apple fanboys are tired of
Speaker 1: the same phone. Like, you know, it's bad when your
Speaker 1: core audience is like, no, I'm gonna stay with the twelve,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay with the thirteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And they were talking about the ad business. They were
Speaker 2: talking about the revenue from that. But when you think
Speaker 2: about it, we spoke about Google maybe a week ago,
Speaker 2: two weeks ago. Most of that money is coming from Google.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: So you're talking about a billion dollar transaction that they're
Speaker 2: gonna have or they're gonna split between four quarters. They're all,
Speaker 2: that's good, that's gonna be reliant in there. But if
Speaker 2: this anti trusting doesn't go through, then what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're bringing Super Mario Brothers back to the app store,
Speaker 1: won't do it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's going to do it. So, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm looking right here at the Baron's article.
Speaker 2: Is it literally says buy Apple ahead of its AI
Speaker 2: news at developers conference. Everybody's waiting. Everybody's waiting in the
Speaker 2: analysts to waiting too, So I guess we'll be waiting
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: And the AI improvement has to be integrated into Syria.
Speaker 1: If they just do moderate AI into and then should
Speaker 1: GPT five's coming out soon. You have some serious competitors
Speaker 1: right now as well.
Speaker 2: It is now an app. It's no longer just on
Speaker 2: the desk stode. Now you have the app yepthropic is there?
Speaker 2: So what product do you think they need to move
Speaker 2: the needle? They can't keep re rocking the same product
Speaker 2: over and over again. Yeah, oh, let me think on
Speaker 2: that one. Let me think on that one.
Speaker 1: And I'm lucky. I don't want to East to Egg.
Speaker 1: Nothing but the idea that they have for the stocks.
Speaker 1: They should have invested in that too and not put
Speaker 1: that to the side. They messed up on a car project.
Speaker 1: Put the stock app to the ybro. We gotta think
Speaker 1: these things through.
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