Apple

Apple increased its subscription pricing for Apple One, Music and TV+ by an average by 16%. This should add an additional 1%, or $1B, to net income over the next year. The key assumption in my estimate is that 95%…

There are three big questions that I always return to when investing in companies big or small, public or private: 1. Does this solve a time, money, or meaning problem? From a first principles standpoint, time, money, and meaning are…

While connecting lead times to demand is more of an art than a science, we’ve found that an expansion or compression of delivery times over the years have been a leading indicator of demand. Three days into the iPhone 14…

After a day of letting Apple’s Far Out event marinate, Gene shares his takeaways, including: iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS with satellite connectivity: This is a technological step forward for Apple and marks the first sleek form factor satellite offering apart…

Apple’s Fall iPhone event stuck to the company’s Playbook for Success. Take a loved product, progress its features and refine its look while maintaining its price point. I’m so familiar with the Playbook that I forget it has a tried-and-true…

Hats off to the box office — 2022 has been a good year driven by the return to normal. Now that economies are reopening, top execs at Warner Brothers and other movie companies want back into theaters. Warner’s CEO, David…

US Healthcare accounts for 20% of the GDP. It’s not only a massive TAM, but it’s a sector that remains resilient even in the face of economic downturn. At the peak of the Great Recession (October 2009), the national unemployment…

I’ve been anticipating a slowdown in consumer spending for several months. In preparation, I took a look back at the 2008 financial crisis and was reminded that all companies will be impacted in a recession. Apple’s most recent quarter and…

At last month’s WWDC keynote, Apple announced that 98% of cars sold in the US are now compatible with CarPlay. This data point did not surprise me. What did surprise me are the updates coming to CarPlay next year and…

The Apple Watch is ready to take a step forward, thanks to Rune Labs. They just got FDA approval on an app to detect, monitor and manage Parkinson’s disease. Gene, Doug and Rune founder, Brian Pepin, discuss the company’s approach…

While WWDC lacked a headline-grabbing announcement, the keynote still delivered on the substance of what makes Apple great for consumers and investors. It’s their continued ability to innovate around vertically integrated hardware and software. And, developers are on board, as…

Gene and Andrew discuss a recent report that Apple’s Board of Directors has seen a preview of the company’s MR headset project, and answer two keys questions: What will they do with it and, when we will see it?