Listed shares of Apple highs again

Thing two months ago, Apple confirmed his recovery from a relatively bland time to market levels with its shares reaching $ 119.65 and its market valuation exceeding 700,000 million. And now that shareholders know how well has the iPhone 6, it appears that these actions have again encouraged bounds close to $ 120.

The forecasts are optimistic, especially if markets are closed today and Apple shares will remain above $ 119. That could allow the dream of some wolves of Wall Street are met and the Cupertino company comes to have its shares above $ 130.

The switcher phenomenon continues with Android ... even outside the United States

It's been two days after record results from Apple, but still interesting data out as analysts do their work. The Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP or for short) has combined figures and found that the rate of people who decide to move from Android to iOS has accelerated, as reflected in Fortune.

But beware, there's something else to consider: occurs outside the United States. There, just as in many other western world, having a platform already secured to it and is much harder to change. However, there are many users in countries like China where the iPhone people spend after testing Android phones. The phenomenon is repeated switcher, but from another rival.

Apple shares today are split

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If you have some shares of Apple and have not been very aware of the financial news company, perhaps you have seen the value of these shares has now cost more than $600 to less than $100 today. Do not panic, you have not lost any fortune in investments: the 7-1 stock split that Apple announced in his last press conference of financial results was paid today.

What does this mean? 

If you had one Apple share, now pass to seven retaining the same value. That value was $ 645, so past actions have cost $ 92 as unfolded in seven. If we calculate the proportions, now the absolute record of the value of one share of Apple goes from $700 to $100.72. We will have to get used to these new numbers.

After this split, Apple now has seven times more shares than before and its new price makes them accessible to more people. I am not a Wall Street shark, but it certainly is for anyone with savings and follow news about Apple daily it arises.

Very passionate, approachable, very Apple

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"Very passionate, approachable, very Apple". This is what employees have reviewed some Apple Store who have already received a visit from his new boss, Angela Ahrendts. The executive took over Apple Retail and online company store a few days ago, but has not done so noteworthy that nothing can be seen from outside.

Apple leads smartphone sales in Japan

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Being a leader in a market so advanced and technology as Japan is not easy. However, Apple has managed to position itself as the best-selling phone brand in Japan, beating competitors like Sony or Samsung. According to recent reports in the country right now, one of every three smartphones sold are iPhone, a fact said soon but it is a breakthrough for the brand. 

The "guilty" of this tremendous growth is the agreement with DoCoMo. Japan is a country where phones are purchased through contracts with carriers and DoCoMo, the largest company, refused to offer the iPhone on its plans until last October when he relented and began offering the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C in exchange for a royalty of 25%. 

The numbers are quite impressive: in its debut month of the iPhone took 61% of sales terminals DoCoMo, Apple getting this increase and subsequent sales presence in the market by 11.1%, from having some more than 25% to 36% of current market share. And talk about Apple profits could have won in Japan since the agreement with DoCoMo about $ 4 billion.

The market is two: Apple and Samsung control 106% of mobile profits

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The data we have identified these weeks ago confirmed a trend that was more or less clear: the market is two, with Apple and Samsung which generate more profit, with 106% of the market thanks to losses from other companies as BlackBerry or HTC.

Rarely can say that a market segment has two actors, but data from Canaccord Genuity, a company of Canadian financial services has become a reality: Apple and Samsung, the two companies leading smartphones, spread over the entire the benefits of one of the most profitable markets in the sector. 

As strange as it sounds the number of the holder of this post, the fact is that two of the most important smartphone market, Apple and Samsung rivals control on 106% of all profits generated by this segment of the market, increasing year to year and quarter to quarter to date, as shown by the evolution of the benefits of the leading companies in the sector since 2010, according to Canaccord:

And how is it possible? Very simple. Because large companies, which previously controlled the market and the benefits it generated, leading some constant consecutive quarters of profit declines, which directly affects the overall increase proportionate share takes the rest, and in this case, Apple and Samsung are the big winners with 106% of the combined total of both companies. Moreover, in the case of Apple's most notorious, as the company is able to generate even more profit by selling less terminals operating margins of 37% compared to the Samsung range that stays at 22%.

Today the market is two, but given the strength and other companies are taking interest in many others, that so far only operated in Asia, for a place in Europe and the United States, this trend may change in the medium term. However, this year a lot is expected of Apple and its iPhone 6, but in regard to the Cupertino, still have much to gain.

Why Shazam, Siri and iTunes Beats could return to it throne

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Now that the alleged purchase transaction Beats by Apple comes in, an idea I had in mind is strengthened. I think Apple is preparing a very important to retrieve the status of champion of the music that has always had thrust. It is a theory. Has little evidence to support it and some of them are confirmed rumors that could almost as surely we could discard. But I find it interesting to share. 

Last month, Bloomberg uncorked a story that reads as follows:

"The company [Apple] are planning a song recognition functionality in an update to iOS, its mobile operating system, which would allow users to identify a song and artist using an iPhone or iPad".

For this new feature, Apple would partner with Shazam and we should expect to see these new features in iOS 8. Last year Shazam updated the application, and added a feature that to label the permanent listening songs. Even if you close the app on the iPad, Shazam will listen in the background. Shazam is also able to identify the series that we are seeing in these times just by the sound. Interesting. 

Siri and Beats come into play

"Hard to believe in coincidences, but is even harder to believe in anything else" - John Green, writer.

Do you know what would be cool? You always have to tell you when to listen. Siri would be much more useful if we could activate it with a simple "Siri, tell me what the weather today in San Francisco" without having to press a button. A voice activation as currently enjoyed by users of a Moto X. 

Shazam integration in iOS 8 can be start with "preventive" identifying songs in an integrated manner. This functionality is built into the independent music or rumored iTunes Music app. But I am convinced that this partnership with Shazam is not a coincidence and that will give rise to in the future further integrated into the system with Siri. Apple is testing the water with his toe to check the temperature before diving into the pool, there is more to look at Touch ID and its inevitable expansion to pay with the iPhone.

"There's an ocean of music out there. And there's absolutely no curation for it" - Jimmy Lovine, CEO of Beats.

On Friday we saw how Apple made ​​history by breaking his record of acquisitions with Beats Electronics and discussed what could be making the rapper and producer Dr. Dre's company in California. Little mentioned streaming service Beats Music has many ballots to fill the gap that Apple has left its musical offer unbelievable. 

There is something beyond headphones and Beats streaming

Sell ​​one company to another is often motivated not only by money but also by the promise to enhance, accelerate and enlarge the products the company already had in mind. I think the healing music that was mentioned Lovine was in the Beats's plans but lacked something to carry it out. To suggest appropriate songs requires a scale and a user base that only has iTunes today. More than 800 million accounts, most of them with a credit card entered.

Shazam could be a part of the puzzle to help Siri to offer music recommendations: 

-Siri, play some music that I like. -Based on the latest songs you've tagged, this is a very good selection. Playing music.

Apple needs to change a market that had won on merit. It is high time to reclaim what is theirs again, will see if the alliance with Shazam and buying Beats lead it in the right direction.

Apple stops offering the iPhone 4 in India

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Earlier this year Apple decided to re-launch the iPhone 4 in India in an attempt to maintain market share in the phone market. They did it through the iPhone 4 (8GB) and today we know that have decided to stop offering the phone for no apparent logical reason. 

The relaunch of the iPhone 4 in the Asian country was partly due to the agreement with the national operators to offer their customers an iOS device at a low price. This agreement expired a few days ago and although it could be the reason for the withdrawal, it is strange that as interesting as the Indian market Cupertino were not trying to continue to provide a device for maintaining the loyalty of brand users.

What can be happening then? Well clearly the iPhone 6. Manufacturing testing of the new device are everywhere, which means that Apple's factories are engaged in the production of the iPhone 6, in addition to other earlier versions are still sold in the rest of world. The lack of stock of iPhone 4 and the inability to continue manufacturing it due to the new version would be a perfectly logical and normal explanation, which would have led to this recall.

What might be Apple's strategy in India now? Further progress in the device chain and put the iPhone 4S as input device combined with agreements with Indian operators. While watching the above strategies, for this to happen the launch of the iPhone 6 will have to have been previously made ​​to not cause further devaluation in previous versions.

The Apple Store notice a decline in sales waiting WWDC 2014

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Charlie Wolf, an analyst at Needham has sent investors a fact that reflects what many of you have noticed: a long time without news from Apple, which causes the Apple Store sales decline slightly. It's simple: people are aware that we will soon have renovations and therefore prefer to wait.

The expansion of the iPhone to dealers and other shops also diverts potential customers phenomenon that occurred when Apple wanted to get rid of all stocks iPod distributing it to other establishments. But we are far from the end of the life cycle of the iPhone: there are those who simply prefer we kept the saved money and wait a few more months. 

I will not discuss Apple's release schedule, since I am not an expert on markets, and Apple has always been contrary to the wind direction.

Apple gets into debt, but their earnings grow

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Apple, the largest technology company in the world, this week launched debt securities by $17,000 million, with maturity periods of up to 30 years. The launch was made in response to a demand 5 / 6 times higher ($120,000 million), which offer the markets of Europe, USA and Asia.

The goal of the company founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, is raise funds by $ 90,000 million, to accelerate the purchase of high-tech firms linked to the "cloud". In the last 18 months, Apple bought 24 new startups. 

Apple has liquid capital by $ 150,000 million, achieved through record profits for the last 5 years, thanks to sales of iPhones and iPads mainly. Apple bonds have similar yield levels of U.S. Treasury securities. It means that your financing is in large part below the rate of inflation. 

Apple is no exception, it is the rule in the U.S. The 1,100 largest companies quoted on Wall Street have $1.23 billion of liquid funds and this record capital increased 15% in the last three years.

In this period (2011-2013), the great American debt capital in the international financial system has tripled, reaching the historical record of $4 billion.

It has never been so high indebtedness of large enterprises of advanced capitalism as at this time in its history, in which your earnings level is high. This paradox coincides with a capital investment of $869,000 million in 2013, and high tech companies have responded by 60% of that total. 

The American experience shows that large companies, as they increase the capital stock, indebtedness multiply and deepen the division of labor among transnational production and financial system. The climax is when large companies have to finance their capital to play as a result of a new technological revolution.

The big changes in the production supply are claiming higher level of indebtedness.

There is no predominance of the financial system on production in advanced capitalism. Just the opposite. These successive technological revolutions in the endogenous character production structure, requiring increasing amounts of funding. More than ever, the twenty-first century capitalism is a "mode of production".

The cost of an investment is measured in future productivity (estimated) of the assets in which it invests, not the expected rate of return immediately. Therefore, the cost of capital (interest rate) is not determined by the current level of earnings, but according to the expectations that the new wave of innovation technological-productive.

In the Q1, Apple sold 43.7 million smartphones ($26,000 million) and China amounted to $9,300 million, up from income earned in Europe, Middle East and Africa, added.

In the next two years, 70% / 80% of current Internet users change their mobile devices for the next generation (5S / 6S), especially those under 30, who are 2/3 of them. 

The new technological revolution is the combination of two factors: mobile Internet, coupled with free access to the "cloud." Through it, the Internet becomes a virtual avenue, global and instantaneous, in which all human activities in each of its phases, all the time are processed. Financial capital is not the highest stage of capitalism. 

iPhone sales continue to grow, shortening positions with Samsung

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Is the iPhone in crisis? Not likely at all. This analysis shows that IDC notes that iPhone sales have grown in the last quarter compared to last year and very highly.

As we have seen in recent months, the market for mobile phones seems to be gradually becoming saturated. However, in light of the analysis of IDC with respect to sales of the iPhone and other companies during the first quarter worldwide, it seems that Apple is not stopping its growth in sales. 

In fact, according to data provided, Apple is narrowing the difference in iPhone sales over herself while fast approaching the number of Samsung, who is still dominant. IDC analyzes show that although Samsung has sold more phones in the first quarter, Apple has beaten back its iPhone sales record, reaching 43.7 million units (compared to 60 million Samsung). Apple, with its relatively limited supply, compared to the broad market, has managed to successfully defend themselves from rival companies.

While Samsung has reduced growth by 1.7%, Apple has increased by 16.8%

This is shown by the growth in iPhone sales, which in turn is increasing as even though the number of Samsung phones have increased, their growth has declined a slight 1.7%. Growth in iPhone sales, as we said, has increased 16.8% over the first quarter of 2013, a modest but very positive number and exceeds the expectations of analysts and the company itself. This means that Apple continues to grow in terms of sales of the iPhone worldwide.

However, also shown in the analysis of IDC, we must say that companies like Huawei or Lenovo, with its recent acquisition of Motorola, have grown to 63.3% in sales of devices, which is highly commendable despite not going from 13 million phones sold. iPhone sales have not been affected in the same way as we talk about premium devices, so that the target user is not the same. Either way, it is clear that Apple is growing.

MacBook Air, a new low price of Apple laptops

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Inconspicuous renewal of the MacBook Air, which has been limited to equip a more powerful Intel processor and lowering its base price. But if we focus on prices that has been in the United States, we are at the cheapest Mac laptop in the entire history of the company. 

In the USA, the base model of the new MacBook Air has been lowered to $ 899. There have been only another Mac at that price, the white polycarbonate MacBook when it was directed to educational institutions. But considering that the general public could not access that computer, the new MacBook Air surpasses.

In Spain, the lowest we've had for a Mac price have been 879 € with the white MacBook 

In the case of Spain the white MacBook was to cost 879 euros when sold at the original price, but rose to 979 euros when Apple inflated him with a little more power. But that $ 899 for a product designed for the vast majority of the public (and not for those just looking for something affordable as happened with the white MacBook) laptop, Apple said they want to cover more market.

Not meant to be cheaper than the PC, but it is obvious that the costs have been lowered. And the best part is that Apple can break this record again with minimal future models. How far are the $ 6,500 first Macintosh Portable.

Spotify, ready to beat iTunes in Europe

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The race to be the best digital music service seems to be changing position. Spotify, according to one of their representatives, would be gaining ground in Europe at the expense of the services offered by iTunes.

Spotify has added more than a million active users in the UK for the past four months. This move is part of its attempt to take control and gain ground on iTunes for the service of the European continent's largest digital music. The benefits of Spotify could have exceeded those of iTunes in Europe.

This was stated in a responsible Sportify in Business Insider recently also explains that the service is growing rapidly, much more than expected for your satisfaction. According to reports, downloads sales are declining in large numbers while Spotify is growing greatly throughout Europe and through iTunes, particularly in the UK. In addition, as indicated by the representative, a large part of the new users are also subscribers Spotify premium service.

Kevin Brown, the source of these claims Spotify has indicated that they do not see iTunes as a true competitor. "Actually," he explained, "the real danger is on Youtube." In addition, Brown has not hesitated to criticize the ability to keep out of Spotify to some artists who have had to date iTunes, although this has not been a real disadvantage, he says. These data come on the eve of an expected launch of iTunes Radio in other parts of the world, but do not know if it will be also for Europe and if this will affect this data.