Share the View 2: Apple's World Domination

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JANUARY 28, 2015 bloombergview.com

TECH Katie Benner: "Apple revealed blockbuster quarterly financial results Tuesday that were so big, so surprising and so good that the Internet strained to put the results into context. ... Apple has created products that work so well that customers aren't just snapping them up in record numbers; customers trust its products to ease them into tech trends that have yet to blow them away." Read more... Matt Levine: "The basic contours of the Yahoo/Alibaba situation are well known. Yahoo owns Alibaba shares worth $40 billion. Those shares are in a glass box. They look so good, sitting there, in their box. Don't you want those shares? But be careful! If you break the box, then they stop being worth $40 billion." Read more... EUROPE Clive Crook: "A prediction for you: Greece and the European Union will split the difference in their quarrel over debt relief. What's uncertain is how their respective governments will justify the new deal, and how much damage they'll inflict on each other before accepting the inevitable." Read more... Leonid Bershidsky: "Greece's new rulers are engaging in dangerous brinkmanship: They may be bargaining too hard for the debt write-off they seek from the European Union." Read more... Justin Fox: "Good luck to Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's new finance minister! ... Varoufakis's views on how to solve the Greek crisis appear to be pretty similar to those expressed in multiple editorials here at Bloomberg View -- give Greece a break on its debts, and stop forcing it to try to slash its way to prosperity." Read more... FEDERAL RESERVE Mohamed A. El-Erian: "As the Federal Open Market Committee concludes its first two-day policy meeting of 2015 today, Federal Reserve officials have been weighing a complicated tug of war between domestic and international economic considerations." Read more... NEWS ROUNDUPS Benner (Read the news roundup) AT&T beat profit and sales expectations thanks to phone and tablet deals.Read more... Wickr, a disappearing-message-app startup, now lets users share secure photos that self-destruct with friends on Facebook. Read more... Not all on-demand workers are happy. Read more... Barry Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) The new phase of deflation fear and headline noise is actually a good thing for markets: Read more... Open letter to the German readers: that which you were never told about Greece: Read more... Pope Francis's U.S. tour will set off economic fireworks: Read more... Levine (Read the news roundup) JPMorgan did well on the Swiss franc: Read more... Don't rob a bank. Rob a bank's museum: Read more.... Today in fund management: Read more... Jonathan Bernstein (Read the news roundup) Sarah Posner at Religion Dispatches on "The Bid to Turn Pastors Into Politicians": Read more... No, ending extended unemployment insurance wasn't what sparked the economic recovery. Read more... Greg Sargent at Plum Line defends Mitt Romney on "authenticity" -- while drawing the important distinction between rhetoric and policy agenda: Read more...