STEVE WOZNIAK: Get Well Wishes

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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Steve Wozniak, the celebrated inventor who co-founded tech giant Apple, was just hospitalized in Mexico. The 73-year-old tech entrepreneur suffered a possible stroke and was rushed to hospital in Mexico City.

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Wozniak was scheduled to speak at a World Business Forum event in the Mexican capital’s Santa Fe neighborhood, “after which he told his wife he was said he was ‘feeling strange’,” the media outlet TMZ reported.

Wozniak, who’s worth an estimated $100 million, was integral to America’s creation and refinement of the personal computer in the 1970s, and was reportedly the mastermind behind Apple’s first computer.

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak

WE WISH YOU WELL

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APPLE and the iPhone X

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Now Apple must show what’s next after iPhone X

By  Vitaliy Katsenelson CFA

The iPhone X is likely to be a phenomenal success for Apple. But its success will not be driven by anything new that the new phone packs inside. Instead, its success will be based on the phone’s screen size. Essentially, iPhone X provides the same screen real-estate as an iPhone Plus, but with the sleeker form factor of the iPhone 7 or 8.

Apple has done a great job at changing the paradigm of our thinking about the iPhone. If you only care about making phone calls, then an iPhone 4 is good enough. Why pay for more? You probably don’t even need to upgrade your phone for years, as long as the battery keeps holding its charge. However, for most, the actual “phone” function is the least important of the iPhone.

Earnings

From an earnings perspective, iPhone X will be a tremendous boost. It will increase the average selling price per unit by a few hundred dollars, which should help not just sales, but profit margins as well. This is actually healthy for both Apple and the entire iPhone ecosystem (including DRAM and solid state drive makers — for example, we still have a large position in Micron Technology). People were also postponing buying new iPhones while waiting for the iPhone X; thus, the number of units sold will probably exceed most optimistic expectations.

What is next?

Then the question becomes, What is next? Higher-priced iPhones will also change the dynamics of the upgrade cycle. Apple is going to have a harder time convincing iFanatics to shell out $1,000-$1,200 every year (or even every two years). The upgrade cycle will likely be elongating to three or four years.

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Thus, any blow-out success of iPhone X in 2017 and early 2018 will be coming at the expense of future years. Even if you are a loyal Apple shareholder, you have to be prepared for this.

Assessment

Absent a new category of products, Apple is turning into a fully ripe stock. Yes, it will look statistically cheap based on 2018 earnings, but that will not be the case if you look at 2019 or 2020 earnings.

As all the excitement subsides, Apple stock will have to answer an extremely important question: What is next? After all, the value of any business is a lot more than the earnings generated next year, but far beyond that.

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On the Wisdom of the Crowd

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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A Belated Edison’s Birthday Marks National Inventors’ Day

[By Staff Reporters]

Steve Wozniak, who built the first Apple computer, has this advice for inventors: “You are going to be best able to design revolutionary products if you are working on your own,” he writes in his memoir iWoz. “Not on a committee. Not on a team.”

GE engineer Peter de Bock begs to differ. “Innovation is about talking to people, connecting with people,” de Bock says. “It’s about knowing what’s out there, what’s needed.”

Recently, De Bock applied his method to build an ingenious cooling device that could launch a new generation of thinner, quieter, and more powerful laptops and tablets like Apple’s iPad.

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