In previous times, I worked for a company that had the acronym AAPL. I kept getting the stock quotes for Apple every time I browse the company's intranet.
It's one of the many reasons I own AAPL shares. They have such a great following with many people who would never even consider moving away from Apple products and shun other brands. I don't see this changing for a long while.
There's a really effective way of dealing with your discomfort about Apple's policies - don't buy AAPL. Pretty simple. I personally am long on it because I trust what the board's done over the long haul. Might change.
Buying AAPL in the early 2000s seems obvious now, but it was not obvious then. Prior to the iPhone, in the midst of a market dominated by the likes of Microsoft, a lot of people had very low expectations for Apple. The chances of AAPL beating companies like XOM or GE were not predictable at the time, and you can say the same today about any stock. At the time, you could of course argue for why AAPL would have enormous future growth, but it wouldn't be a prediction, but a bet.
So you think it's purely a coincidence that AAPL is up 3-4x in the past 5 years while Radio Shack stock has lost 99% of it's value? It has nothing to do with the fact that Apple is making huge profits while Radio Shack lost money hand over fist?
They need Apple in the sense that AAPL is represented in many different financial instruments, products and portfolios, and it tanking would have consequences outside of shareholders just losing value.
I have to insert one mild troll here: you seem to be writing in the voice of an Apple investor, yet from context you seem more like a user or developer. Why is the value of AAPL a universal good? Seems like it's quite high enough already.
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