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Speaker 1: You're listening to take the stof with Kathleen on Bloomberg Radio. Apple.

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Speaker 1: The shares of Apple so far this year have increased

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Speaker 1: just two point seven percent. Right now, the shares of

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Speaker 1: Apple are hired by sixty one cents, a hundred and

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Speaker 1: eight dollars and nine cents. Well, what could drive the

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Speaker 1: share price of Apple higher? Well, how about an even

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Speaker 1: more amazing new iPhone. Here to tell us more, John Butler,

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Speaker 1: senior Telecom Services and Equipment analysts for Bloomberg Intelligence. You

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Speaker 1: John Butler, Go app Bowl And a new iPhone. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we do. We have a new iPhone coming hopefully

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Speaker 1: in September. They never announced an official day, but there

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Speaker 1: are September Company when it comes to uh to the

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Speaker 1: iPhone launches. And what's interesting this year PIM is the

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Speaker 1: iPhone seven is going to be another soft upgrade. And

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Speaker 1: what I mean by that is Apple has a long

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Speaker 1: history of every two years doing a major forklift upgrade

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Speaker 1: on the hardware and then on the off years doing

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Speaker 1: a feature upgrade. We got a feature upgrade last year

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Speaker 1: with the iPhone six ass and so everyone's hearing that

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Speaker 1: the iPhone seven upgrade is going to be a little soft.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to be that major forklift upgrade. But

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Speaker 1: if you run down some of the features, they're interesting

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Speaker 1: to me. You know, they're going to come out with

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Speaker 1: a dual camera system, which is going to improve low

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Speaker 1: light shots and hopefully provide for some three D shooting

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Speaker 1: on video. They're taking away the headphone jack were We're

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Speaker 1: going to get to that in just a second, right,

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Speaker 1: because I'm gonna press you on this one, all right.

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Speaker 1: So it's got a dual camera, and then it's changing

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Speaker 1: the home but the home but the home button is

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Speaker 1: now going to be tactic. In other words, it's when

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Speaker 1: you hit it, it's gonna vibrate when you hit it.

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Speaker 1: Today it actually has to click. You have to depress it,

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Speaker 1: and there's it hasn't been problematic, but it's prone to breaking.

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Speaker 1: And so you know, there are kids where you can

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Speaker 1: fix your home button by taking apart your I phone

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Speaker 1: and putting in a new part. But have you ever

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Speaker 1: noticed that when you do that, there are these other

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Speaker 1: little parts that remain on the table after you back together,

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Speaker 1: and to happen, it happens with all of us. I

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Speaker 1: take it to the genius bar. I think that's not

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Speaker 1: not a bad idea. Okay, so our Apple new phones.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's just let's continue down the path here, because

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Speaker 1: from the business angle, this may or may not be great,

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Speaker 1: depends how the market receives it. But you mentioned something interesting,

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Speaker 1: which is that there are many people who will now

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Speaker 1: upgrade not to this new seven, but they will be

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Speaker 1: upgrading to the six. And there's an incentive, a financial

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Speaker 1: incentive for that to happen to right, So we were

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Speaker 1: we were talking about that before the spot um and

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see it's gonna be a very

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Speaker 1: interesting year for that reason. The iPhone success was a

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Speaker 1: very good device. It didn't get a lot of takers

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Speaker 1: because people are on these new financing plans. We're now

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Speaker 1: two year old phones who are off the financing plans,

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Speaker 1: are coming off the plans, so there are suddenly paying

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Speaker 1: nothing for their device and they can re up their

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Speaker 1: financing plan and get a new device. Do they want

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Speaker 1: the headphone jack? Do they not want the headphone jack?

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Speaker 1: For a lot of people, I think they're perfectly satisfied

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Speaker 1: with the older model. Apple will typically price and older

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Speaker 1: generation phone if they keep it on the market down

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Speaker 1: about a hundred dollars, so on a relative basis, I

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Speaker 1: anticipate it's going to be cheaper than the iPhone seven,

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Speaker 1: So we may get one of those years again because

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Speaker 1: of this soft upgrade of the seven itself. It might

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Speaker 1: be a mixed bag for them. You may get a

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Speaker 1: lot of people like myself who opt for the older

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Speaker 1: generation phone, maybe a hundred You get a hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: off and I get to keep my old accessories. If

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Speaker 1: they do away with that headphone jack. Um, what's up

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Speaker 1: with that? What what they're getting? The note that I

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Speaker 1: read says that they are that they might know this

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Speaker 1: all speculations, but if they got rid of the standard

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Speaker 1: headphone jack, then uh, it would be to add to

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Speaker 1: use that space for battery, for battery and speaking the

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Speaker 1: speaker right in the phone. How are you going to

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Speaker 1: connect your headphones? Is just gonna all be bluetooth? Bluetooth. Um.

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Speaker 1: through a FireWire port in the bottom much you know,

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Speaker 1: with the current connector that you have now on the ice.

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Speaker 1: For everybody that has all those old FireWire cords and cables,

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily throw them away. You might be able to reuse.

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Speaker 1: You might be able to reuse them, but you don't

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Speaker 1: have headphones with that connector. So I think the iPhone

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Speaker 1: seven is going to require people to go out and

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Speaker 1: buy new headphones, which, as we discussed, could benefit Beats

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Speaker 1: which is now on by Apple. Uh they make bluetooth headphones.

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Speaker 1: Um again, if if the wire line headphones, two cameras,

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Speaker 1: uh speak, speakers, speakers, better processor, hopefully a better battery.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen a lot of talk about that, but

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Speaker 1: the bigger iPhone, the iPhone Success Plus and the six

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Speaker 1: plus have had battery life issues. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: see a lot of people with those phones carrying around

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Speaker 1: those external battery ports that you can plug into and

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Speaker 1: give a little extra juice at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: and they have been to be using though the actual

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Speaker 1: connector that is used in Android. Yeah, alright, I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you're able to keep up with it all. John, Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. John, Butler. He is our senior Telecom

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Speaker 1: Services and Equipment analyst for us here at Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Speaker 1: You can follow John on Twitter at John underscore Butler.

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Speaker 1: He's been telling us all about Apple and the potential

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Speaker 1: of its new phones. This is taking stock. I'm pim Fox.

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