Six weeks ago I sold everything and bought Apple.
The $3 billion acquisition of Beats had nothing to do with it.
The music business is dead on arrival.
Tim Cook is a great supply chain guy who is clueless on innovation.
Beats’ Jimmy Iovine and partner Dr. Dre are no Steve Jobs.
The music business is dead.
Apple just wasted $3 billion on Beats.
And I still sell everything to buy Apple.
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