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Apple’s Long Strange Trip to A $2T Valuation

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Wedbush Securities Analyst Daniel Ives offered a resounding yes in a research note on Sunday (Aug. But Apple notably has changed its focus in recent years away from being the world’s foremost inventor of new gadgets and into the construction of a more fully realized Apple ecosystem. Will Apple make it over the finish line?

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Smarter Homes And Offices

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That’s already starting to happen thanks to a recent partnership between Amazon and Microsoft that allows customers of each company to leverage the other’s voice assistant. Once it does, Alexa users will be able to ask Cortana to read their emails out loud or check or update a Microsoft Office calendar.

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

Barry Ritholtz

RITHOLTZ: In fact, there was a period of time where it looked like Microsoft Office wasn’t going to be made available. The antitrust case against Microsoft is the only thing that kept Apple alive. But anyway, it was a beautifully constructed stress ball called the Grip. It was tough, not everything was available.