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Hommels: US heart disease spending rivals Apple's total global revenue
“That the pay, the sum of what the US spends on heart diseases and medication, all that kind of stuff in the US is, is in the vicinity of Apple's revenue worldwide.”
Danny Rimer: Apple hitting $1T re-calibrated his ceiling for scale
“I mean, you know, honestly, I hadn't really thought about companies being worth multiple trillions until, until Apple hit that trillion number.”
Lanzone: Ask Jeeves was called the 'Apple of search' during turnaround
“We were later called the apple of search, believe it or not, by people in the search industry and just being really proud of that turnaround and what we were able to accomplish there.”
Fried holds index funds and Apple stock at a $2 cost basis
“My personal trading portfolio is like boring index funds, like S and P 500 in NASDAQ, the Dow, that kind of stuff. I've owned Apple for many years, split-adjusted down to, like, two dollars, so I've done quite well on Apple over the years.”
Creative Selection Accurately Depicts Steve Jobs' Apple Product Design Process
“Ken Kosienda's book, Creative Selection, I think it came out a couple years ago or so. My time I spent at Apple actually overlaps with the period he covers in the book, and the book is stunningly accurate in how it portrays how Apple designed and shipped produ…”
Smartphone wars created the low-cost component supply chain for consumer IoT
“Because of the smartphone wars, the war between Apple and Samsung and Google and Nokia and Blackberry, a lot of the components that you find in a... Everyone was trying to get a low-cost camera, low-cost accelerometers, low-cost Bluetooth chips and Wi-Fi chips…”