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Apple’s challenges in China, and what investors need to know

By Chris Umiastowski, Thursday, Apr 4, 2013 a 10:19 am

In the not-so-distant past, Tim Cook has been quoted as saying he expects China to emerge as the company’s largest source of revenue. Back in January, we discussed this growth in China, along with Asymco.com’s estimate that China would overtake US sales at Apple by 2016.

Has anything changed?

Apple investors: How to stay sane by staying long

By Chris Umiastowski, Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 a 10:54 am

Earlier today I had a quick chat with iMore’s editor-in-chief, Rene Ritchie about all the crazy rumours and bad journalism that Apple has had to deal with lately. But more to the point, we talked about how this stuff can hurt small time investors if they don’t know how to deal with it. So that’s what we’ll talk about here.

Are the risks to Apple's stock as serious as some investors think?

By Chris Umiastowski, Wednesday, Nov 14, 2012 a 11:11 am

The equity research arm of Barclays just put out a report on Apple, and it has a handy chart summarizing all of the main concerns investors have with the stock right now.

The concerns are: 1) Long term operating margins; 2) competition for iPhone; 3) competition for iPad; 4) no “next big thing; 5) concerns over maps; 6) management changes; 7) production execution; 8) execution risks in vertical integration

Let’s dive into these a bit, shall we?