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Incorrect. Samsung Group (total asset value $530 billion USD) is still a larger company than Apple (total asset value $305 billion USD) and Google (total asset value $147 billion USD) by total asset value. In fact, Samsung is larger than Apple and Alphabet (owner of Google) combined. Apple is...

Now I think of it, probably not. Samsung probably didn't engineer the battery defect.

Apple shares fall 2% after report of 25% drop forecast in iPhone sales in 2017 - GfK Sales in Asia and Europe have been very weak. ~25% decline compared to the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus (which were already quite weak). This is in line with forecasts by Taiwanese/Korean companies, all of which...

When did I ever suggest that I thought "Suck it, Apple!"? When did I ever indicate that stocks had any correlation with profits? Anyway I do expect Apple's stock to slide in the medium term. I sold around the peak ~$128 last year. I generally have a good sense of the market. Meanwhile in...

The same thing happens every year. Apple always makes an announcement "couple of days ago" saying the iPhone X were completely sold out worldwide. How is this anything new? The only thing that's new is the small amount of people lining up to get the iPhone 7. The lines for the iPhone 7 are...

The share price has nothing to do with what's really going on in a company's financials. They're just pieces of paper that don't even provide companies with any benefits. These short-term market swings are just the market's preconception of what's going on at a superficial level. People may be...

Seeing how Apple's shares have fallen because of their decision to get rid of the headphone jack in place of the gimmicky "Airpods", no I don't think Samsung will adopt their strategy. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple adopts OLED display technology, however. They already signed a contract with...

Uhh, no it doesn't. Apple stock gained in 6/11 iPhone announcements. Apple stock lost in 5/11 iPhone announcements. And the iPhone 7 is the 2nd worst performing iPhone announcement. BTW, Apple's stock price has now dropped by 6% since the iPhone 7 announcement. I think a greater than 10% drop...

Well the Samsung lithium battery issue will be solved in a week or so. And the recovery of Samsung's stock price suggests that the majority of investors think that this will be better for Samsung in the long-run, compared to if they ignored it. I'm not sure how successful the iPhone 7 will be...

Wall Street and investors were not impressed with the iPhone 7 and Apple's shares have fallen 3% since its release. The stock is now down 15% year-on-year. http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-stock-drops-after-iphone-7-2016-9?r=US&IR=T My perspective: Shares will fall another 10~15% until...

Galaxy Note 7. Remember the lithium battery defect affects 0.2% of those in the market. If you're really worried, wait a few weeks until they fix the production issue.

Except, this is Ireland that we're talking about. Not a huge market for Apple products. This leads me to think, what if this becomes revealed as a Europe-wide tax evasion?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-apple-taxavoidance-idUSKCN114211 There are wider implications for this other than the $15 billion USD that Apple now almost invariably owes. $15 billion USD isn't actually that much, it's about 6% of Apple's total cash pile. However, bigger damage will be...

The Verge just gave the Galaxy Note 7 a 9.3/10... the highest out of any Samsung smartphone ever achieved.. http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/16/12491196/samsung-galaxy-note-7-review Even BGR, an equally pro-Apple site as the Verge, is worried about Apple...

You don't seem to understand what mobile plans are. $0 smartphone plans are $1000 over 24 month plans in disguise. I've been seeing a lot more Galaxy S7s these days compared to the Galaxy S6 last year. Especially a lot of the Galaxy S7 Edge. It seems like everyone here is an Apple fan...