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Research archive for AAPL

New iPhone SE

03 October 2024

Apple is gearing up to launch a new iPhone SE and upgraded iPads early next year. The iPhone SE, codenamed V59, will ditch the home button for an edge-to-edge screen design, resembling the iPhone 14.

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Apple Watch detects sleep apnea

26 September 2024

The US FDA has approved Apple's new sleep apnea detection feature, on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 and Ultra 2.

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Apple Intelligence

19 September 2024

Apple has introduced "Apple Intelligence," a personal AI system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. To handle more complex tasks, they've developed Private Cloud Compute (PCC), a cloud-based system designed for private AI data processing. What sets PCC apart is its focus on privacy - user data remains encrypted and out of reach, even from Apple.

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Tech Titans

19 September 2024

The chart below shows the 12 most valuable companies in the world, ranked by their market capitalisation. Which ones do you own in your portfolio? If you are a Vestact client, you most probably own 8 of them, or perhaps 9. If you've been a client for many years, you've owned them since before they were on this list.

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Apple Q3 - Strong showing

05 August 2024

Apple reported earnings on Thursday that surpassed Wall Street forecasts with a 5% revenue increase. Despite the strong performance, Apple shares remained flat in after-hours trading and only closed 0.7% higher on Friday.

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Apple & Google symbiosis

31 July 2024

Apple and Google have a good working relationship. For example, Google pays Apple around $20 billion a year to be the default search engine on Apple devices. In return, Apple uses Google Cloud for all of its online storage.

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How generative AI will work

21 June 2024

In Ben Evan's latest newsletter, he lays down some criteria for what he believes will make generative AI and ChatGPT work. Firstly, the software needs to be embedded in a system that has lots of information about the user. Social networks, search engines and mobile operating systems all tick that box.

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Apple's AI plans

12 June 2024

On Monday Apple released a range of new products, including the much anticipated Apple Intelligence (AI). The new upgrades are coming to iPhones, Macs and iPads in the second half of this year. Apple Intelligence will be powered by generative AI, giving Siri a massive upgrade, and if Siri can't assist you, free access to ChatGPT will.

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Apple AI

15 May 2024

Of the tech titans, Apple stands out as the one that isn't really generating much excitement around AI. Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon are all regularly launching new and more powerful AI tools, but not Apple.

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Apple Q2 - Good surprise

06 May 2024

Before Apple's quarterly results for the period to end-March came out on Thursday last week, the market's expectations were low. There were dire reports of smartphone market share losses in China, to cheaper local brands like Huawei. The consensus was that iPhone sales were going to be muted.

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Apple iPhone Shipments

17 April 2024

In the first quarter of 2024, Samsung snagged the top spot of smartphones sold with over 60 million devices shipped, boosted by its Galaxy S24 series launch.

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DOJ sues Apple

26 March 2024

Apple has been taking some heat recently from regulators in Europe and the US. The most recent allegation has come from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) who have filed a civil lawsuit against Apple suggesting that they have monopolised the smartphone market by discouraging any innovation that threatens their own business. This has resulted in less choice for consumers, slow competition and increased consumer costs.

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Apple Q1 - Beat on sales and profits

05 February 2024

On Thursday evening, Apple reported its earnings for the festive season quarter. The tech behemoth had revenue and profits that were higher than the street was expecting, posting sales of $120 billion for the quarter, a growth of 2.1% over a year earlier. The share price was little moved.

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Blood oxygen drama

16 January 2024

Apple is working to remove the blood-oxygen sensors from its latest watches, including the Series 9 and Ultra 2, because of an ongoing patent dispute with medical technology company Masimo.

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Apple Services

22 November 2023

Last quarter, Apple's services business reached an all-time revenue high of $22.3 billion. That's more than twice the size of Netflix's sales. More importantly, services accounted for 40% of Apple's gross profit despite being only 25% of the group's revenues.

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