4.4 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Apple unveils its watch. Big banks get a passing grade. Disney announces a sequel to Frozen. And Twitter bets big on video. Our analysts discuss those stories and share some stocks on their radar. And sports business analyst Kristi Dosh talks about the business of March Madness.
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0:00.0 | Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money. |
0:07.0 | From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money. Welcome to Motley Fool Money. |
0:21.0 | Matt Greer stepping in for an under the weather Chris Hill this week. And I'm joined by James |
0:25.5 | Early from Motley Fool Income Investor and Matt Argersinger and Jason Moser from Million |
0:30.0 | Dollar portfolio. Guys, welcome. Hey, Matt. You're off to a great start. Thank you. |
0:33.5 | So far, so good. Say it. You're killing it, man. I'll try to keep it up. On today's show, we've got |
0:37.5 | Stress Test, Burger joints and the business of March Madness. But we begin with watches. Apple |
0:43.5 | finally unveiled its watch this week. Comes in three models. Goes on sale April 24th and |
0:48.5 | Price is range from $350 to $17,000. Matt, what do you think? Let's start with the positive. I |
0:55.5 | mean, it's, you know, I think fitness gurus are going to like this. It probably takes, you know, your |
0:59.5 | Fitbit or any of the sort of precursor fitness watches to a whole new level. It's got really, you know, |
1:04.5 | the touch interface is really pretty neat, probably, you know, really high tech. Some of the apps are cool. |
1:10.5 | I can open my car with maybe with my watch. You know, I can measure my heart rate. It has Apple |
1:15.5 | Pay, which I actually think is going to be huge for that because I mean, it's one thing to wave your phone and |
1:20.5 | Have your phone. But if you can run into a go for a jog, go into a store, wave your, you know, wave your watch in front of a |
1:26.5 | Key Oscar pay for something. I think that's a big upgrade. Oh, big bonus. It also tells time. |
1:31.5 | Wow. Huge, right? But to me, I mean, the negatives, the negatives to me outweigh the positives by a lot. I mean, you have, |
1:38.5 | For a lot of the applications, you have to have your iPhone and has to be paired with your phone. The price |
1:42.5 | As you mentioned, 350 to 17,000. I mean, $350. It's kind of a lot to pay for a phone, especially one that I have to recharge |
1:49.5 | Probably every night. And apparently if you're listening to music or doing a lot of heavy lifting on the phone or on watching the watch. Yeah, it's |
1:56.5 | You got to charge it probably every six hours. Multiple models. It just, you know, I want to be, I want to be open minded about this. I mean, we didn't know the |
2:04.5 | iPod when it came out 13 odd years ago that it was going to be this big platform for music. We didn't know how good the iPad was going to do. I mean, |
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