How did Apple's chief executive pioneer the personal computer, revive the Apple brand in 1997 when it was close to bankruptcy and grow Apple into the most valuable tech company in the world?
To grow, Apple will be pushed into bigger business where it remains unproven.
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The talk of the town is the recent announcement he will be stepping aside to let other seeds grow at Apple.
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That's a big number, and it will continue to grow as Apple ties iTunes to new products like the iPhone (which has been a hit) and Apple TV (which has not).
There grow Cisco, Apple, Sun, Oracle, Ebay--all fewer than 25 years old.
The next two years are Apple years, as smart phone and tablet markets grow like mushrooms, and Apple takes share of market and adds new carriers.
At this point in the markets where Apple competes competitors are serving to grow the market more than take sales from Apple!
To grow music sales, Apple launched Ping, a social music service that also failed and recently shut down, causing Apple to retrench to its original iTunes offering.
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Samsung might gain a little on Apple after releasing its Galaxy S4, likely in March, and Apple might grow its own profit share if it ever releases a cheaper iPhone.
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Just like maps, and most of the rest of technology, Apple likes to grow its own.
So if Apple wants to grow with its existing product line, an ongoing profit squeeze is inevitable.
To be sure, it is kind of incredible that a business as big as Apple is can grow as fast as it has.
Wolf notes that Apple plans to grow the number of Chinese stores it operates to 25 from 3 over the next three years.
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By contrast, Bernstein expects Apple iPod sales will grow just 6% to 22.4 million iPods over the year-ago period.
In contrast, Apple sales are tipped to grow by 33 percent, to 180 million.
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According to the New York Times, Einhorn declared that Apple is not going to grow 80% a year.
China is becoming a key market for Apple this year, and we expect Apple's share to grow rapidly in 2012, despite countless copycat rivals.
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Apple is too big to grow at much more than high single digits or low double digits (March revenue guidance at the mid-point is up 7%).
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Apple has been able to grow its earnings per share at more than 60% a year, which is the result of tremendous revenue growth and margin expansion.
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Assuming a company will grow like Google and have margins like Apple is, by definition, optimistic and this value would be at the upper end of my range.
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But in the long-run, Apple would be giving up a large number of subscribers who will grow up with Firefox OS and may never see any need to jump to Apple in the future.
Apple is promising that it can grow sales by more 38% over the year-ago quarter.
Apple had forced my daughter to grow up too quickly.
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Instead, he used an appearance at the Goldman Sachs technology conference in New York to reassure shareholders that Apple still has considerable room to grow and should not be judged on the apparent slowdown in its trajectory over the last quarter.
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The first chart above shows how optimism in Apple, though low, has begun to grow again.
Chinese users tend to buy very little from iTunes, but the content portion of Apple's business in China is sure to grow.
Banking on the continued adoption of smartphones, with Apple, Samsung, BlackBerry and others fighting to grow market share, Verizon would be perfectly positioned to take advantage of its size.
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