“How do you decide to buy, hold or sell a stock? It can be as complicated as choosing which babe you ultimately will settle down with (or why settle down at all?)! Aside from using basic fundamental and technical data to sort stocks, I often use “tipping points” (like I did shorting RIMM) to decide position sizing and trade decision,” The Ugly Truth writes for Seeking Alpha.
“Steve Jobs told Isaacson that he’d rather wage ‘thermonuclear war’ with Google (GOOG) than make deals to share its technology with the maker of the Android operating system,” T.U.T. writes. “While it cannot be proven, it would not be far fetched to think that Eric Schmidt (a former member on Apple’s board of directors) did share Apple’s iPhone plans with GOOG. Also, does anyone remember what cellphones looked like before the iPhone was launched in 2007?”
T.U.T. writes, “To think that Tim Cook isn’t as shrewd as Steve would be a mistake; he just isn’t as bombastic as Steve. Given that there isn’t as much material relating to Tim as there is with Steve, I’ll attempt to paint a picture of the man whom I think is very underrated as a leader and manager.”
Tons more in the full article – recommended – here.
Still waters run deep -Tim Cook will not dissapointment.
We will see…and hope for the best.
Despite this squibbler’s annoying babe toss offs, article’s a plus for the canny profile of a guy more of us popcos should be talkin’ about–Tim Cook.
Let the “War Games” begin! Wonder if Matthew Broderick is available to reprise his role?!
Google, “would you like to play a nice game of chess?”
“To think that Tim Cook isn’t as shrewd as Steve would be a mistake; he just isn’t as bombastic as Steve.”
The first part of that sentence is accurate; the second part is relative and depends on your angle of view.
Cook’s relation with supply chain is best described by an anecdote reported by CNN, related to the period when Cook joined Apple in 1998 to straighten the operational morass that Apple was in. In a meeting convened to tackle a problem in China, he had said: “This is really bad someone should be in China driving this.” Thirty-minutes in the meeting he chided Sabih Khan, the then operations executive, saying “Why are you still here?”. Khan responded by immediately booking a ticket to China, sans a change of clothes.
Yeah, he’s a pussycat.
I don’t think you know the meaning of “bombastic” – this often told Tim Cook story simply illustrates his clear focus and decisive management.
Apple has already gone thermonuclear. The shockwave from the blast just hasn’t reached the observers on the sidelines yet.
The iPad blew away any chance of competition, apparently. I’d call that a ‘thermonuclear’ attack. I continue to see no chance of recovery in 2012. The pile of OtherPad corpses continues to mount. 😉
Love the “OtherPad”. Trademark!
Derek does have a way with words : )
“Thermonuclear” will be when Apple fires up its own search engine and makes it the default in Safari. Bye-bye Google!
We may not know much about Tim Cook, but Jobs examined him closely and then anointed him. Get it?
He picked Isaacson, too; and paperdisaster, er Papermaster.
This guy is advocating DayTraderTard behavior, IOW stampedes of sheeple in accordance with what they feel from one day to the next. These are outrageously lame ‘tipping points’. Apparently that phrase is the new nifty kewl meme of the month.
It’s called ‘investing’ for a reason. If instead you want to play roulette, go lose your money at a casino instead and leave actual investors alone.
All I know is when I was between jobs for about 6 months almost 10 years ago, day trading kept a roof over my head and kept my family fed. I made over $75K in those 6 months.
Wow!!! Good for you!
Doubt Jobs would have hand picked Cook if they didn’t share the same vision for the company.
Today, in the face of news that Apple was the only bright spot of all pc’s in this quarter and that if it was taken out of the formula pc’s did even worse than reported, their stock lost money, while the NASDAQ gained. Manipulation of the market is obvious and has been for a long time. How do these assholes get away with this for all this time?