Good job. I received a degree in finance and ended up not wanting to go into banking so I went back and got my CS degree. Like you said, looking back it was definitely worth all the time and effort.
Mansfield has a successful track record with respect to Apple products.
With that said, this is his most difficult challenge to date and I'm not sure how successful he and the company as a whole will be given the difficulties of bringing an autonomous car to market.
Besides their newly released app, what's proprietary about this business? What would stop a big coffee company from replicating this at a cheaper cost?
The possibility of becoming poor and/or bankrupt as a result of an injury is the scariest part of being part of the American society. Hope this changes one day.
"Apple’s stock price would be just as high as it is today (or more likely higher)"
How is this hindsight on par? How is he so sure that the stock price would be higher? Hindsight is 20/20 but making BS hypothetical claims with no backing is unprofessional. He's just guessing.
"I believe – although this is impossible to prove – that Apple’s stock price would be just as high as it is today (or more likely higher) had they spent that $100 billion on a combination of smart M&A and smart R&D that would have continued to extend Apple’s lead over other Android phone makers."
Anyone else find this peculiar? A whole article based on the author's hindsight of what Apple's stock price MAY have ever been with no proof/facts.