Second Investor Dumps Shares as Apple Stock Drops to Near Two-Year Low

Apple innovated to many watch bands and neglected their once core business of computers.

Stale designs and old hardware. 5400HHD WTF

I still don't understand how Tim Cook can decide to fit 5400 rpm physically spinning hard drives in $1000+ computers, and then turn around and say "We at Apple are committed to making THE BEST computers that we physically can"

This is what annoys me about him. He's not a tech guy, he has no idea, and just looks smug and lies thru his teeth to the public hoping most are too dumb to realise.

I'd actually love Apple to collapse in some ways so they got rid of these marketing idiots and got back to the core of their company and dumped all the old junk and REALLY made things the best that can like they pretend to now.

He sold at end of 2015. It was only 'spotted' now for obvious reasons. To try to drive stock lower so he can either buy back in or so his friends can. AAPL shares have been up and down like this for several years now. All ******** manipulation from the institutions. When it dropped from $700 to ~$400 it was completely unwarranted. Apple were doing very well at the time. Wall St. is driven by greed pure and simple. Since the housing crisis many people should have gone to prison, but politics in US is too corrupt now and your TV media is along for the ride. The empire is dead.

The only thing I hope for, is that Apple focuses on its business and innovation and less about its stock price, or who buys it. If you start worrying about the price of the stock, you take your eyes off of what got you there in the first place.

I find investing fascinating..... What I find even more fascinating is how much panic you can create so easily that causes people to start dumping shares. I am not an economist or mathematician but up and downs are completely inevitable. You an't sustain significant growth indefinitely. Since most of apple's revenue comes from the iPhone it had to happen sooner or later because there are only so many people with smart phones and let's be honest, the update from year to year is so insignificant that it just doest warrant you to get out and grab a new one. Except of course for the enthusiasts.... I'm actually hoping it will slip more so I can buy more of it because it will be back. Every few years there is a significant breakthrough in technology that pushes it back up.

I still don't understand how Tim Cook can decide to fit 5400 rpm physically spinning hard drives in $1000+ computers, and then turn around and say "We at Apple are committed to making THE BEST computers that we physically can"

This is what annoys me about him. He's not a tech guy, he has no idea, and just looks smug and lies thru his teeth to the public hoping most are too dumb to realise.

I'd actually love Apple to collapse in some ways so they got rid of these marketing idiots and got back to the core of their company and dumped all the old junk and REALLY made things the best that can like they pretend to now.

Absolutely. The Mac is garbage right now. I lose the OS's design and all that, but their hardware... it's just so slow. iPad's are catching up to it, and you can now buy computers in the $600 range that are faster than Mac Pros. Not cool. Not cool at all.

The 5400 RPM harddrive is also a great example. I dunno what the **** went through the minds of the people who put that in.

People have lost faith in Apple's ability to innovate. Investors want to see a roadmap.

Tim just can't say "everyone will need one". That line does not work anymore.

The only thing I hope for, is that Apple focuses on its business and innovation and less about its stock price, or who buys it. If you start worrying about the price of the stock, you take your eyes off of what got you there in the first place.

Here, here. They need to focus on what makes me pay over the odds for their products whether I need to or not. I have the money and I’m ready - just don’t like being ripped off.
At the moment it seems like they’re nickel and diming everyone.

Scott Forstall

Forstall is NOT the answer. He will never come back because he hates Jony. I wouldn't even want Scott running Apple. He doesn't have the IT factor. Seriously. Whenever I watched him on keynote years back, he looked like a creepy goof gabbing about.

Even if he was offered to run Apple, Jony and Tim would have to GO as per his demands. Otherwise, he's NOT the guy and nowhere as close to the level of Elon Musk. Not one bit. We'll never have another Steve Jobs but they could try to find someone who's similar to Elon and Steve as another " Tony Stark ".

But Cook? Hell to the no.
Williams? He's Cook's boy, so I don't trust him.
Cue? He's a drunken slob and needs to leave.
Schiller? Defensive loud mouth and needs a kick in the a--. Defensive = insecure. That's him.
Jony? Must leave immediately and go independent. He's burnt out and has too much power/control. Firing him would be the best move Apple would make in order to get fresh design language and reign in dandy crap that Cook's being approving of.
Craig? He's not bad and could have been a pretty good CEO. A far better choice than Cook.
Angela? I think she's working for the wrong company and needs to do something else. Tim recruited her for the wrong reasons.

Someday when Apple's stock is back down to $14.95 a share and Cook is gone and all the social & political correctness is purged too bad their can't be a "third coming" of Steve Jobs.
Maybe it can thru someone like Woz but I doubt it.

Scott Forstall