Top Blue Chip Companies To Own For 2015

Top Blue Chip Companies To Own For 2015: Apple Inc.(AAPL)

Apple Inc., together with subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers, mobile communication and media devices, and portable digital music players, as well as sells related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications worldwide. The company sells its products worldwide through its online stores, retail stores, direct sales force, third-party wholesalers, resellers, and value-added resellers. In addition, it sells third-party Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod compatible products, including application software, printers, storage devices, speakers, headphones, and other accessories and peripherals through its online and retail stores; and digital content and applications through the iTunes Store. The company sells its products to consumer, small and mid-sized business, education, enterprise, government, and creative markets. As of September 25, 2010, it had 317 retail stores, including 233 stores in the United States and 84 stores internationally. The company, formerly known as Apple Computer, Inc., was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ashraf Eassa]

  Cowen's Timothy Arcuri recently published a note discussing Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) potential new 4-inch iPhone, reportedly slated to launch next year alongside the new "larger" iPhones. While this is still an unconfirmed rumor, and Arcuri's note seemed to imply that such a phone is a possibility rather than a definite, it's worth looking at what the specifications of such a device could look like. 

• [By Anders Bylund]

  Later in the same call, Chen made it clear that Boeing is a paying BES 12 customer. This cross-platform system lets information-technology managers enjoy some of BlackBerry's best securi! ty features without using any BlackBerry-branded hardware. For Chen's company, that's a smart way to stay relevant even when Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) iPhones and various Android models have rendered the classic BlackBerry handset obsolete and unwanted.

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