Apple Success Factors: Should Apple Rely Less on the iPhone, More on Other Products?

“Everybody directly or indirectly likely has a stake in Apple. There is a real difference in Steve Jobs and Tim Cook that could be measured through the stock price. I mean, a lot of people who have watched Apple for a lot of years know that Steve Jobs wasn’t always on the company’s quarterly conference calls, addressing the analysts and talking about Apple as an investment. Tim Cook is actually a guy who has been doing that for a long time. He’s a guy for a long time who has actually met with investors. And a guy who has done some investment friendly things, like issuing a dividend, something people wonder if Steve Jobs would have done.”

Erlichman leaves the interview by sharing one last key point:

“Is Apple going to be a company that lets its products speak for itself, or if they think there is a trend changing in the number of iPhones they can sell, whether they need to do a lot more of those investor friendly things?”

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