"In a bid to lure an outside investor, CEO Bob Iger has said Disney wants to keep ESPN and will try to create a streaming app for it by either forming a joint venture or finding a buyer for a minority stake in the network."
"Premiumization has started in the world’s second largest smartphone market and Apple has again got the timing right."
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"Compares continue to remain easy for the App Store category for the balance of this year (although Q4 tougher vs. Q3), and so we expect growth to remain positive." — Analyst Amit Daryanani
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"The health and fitness tracker market is rapidly growing, with some projecting it will become a nearly $200 billion-a-year industry within a decade."

The Street -- as reported by Thomson Financial — is considerably more bearish than team Apple 3.0.

From Apple's "Behind the scenes: An Apple Event shot on iPhone" posted Tuesday.
"We believe the "growth demise story" of Apple being spun by bears is a dynamic we have seen constantly over the past decade and this is just another chapter in that book."
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