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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

Motley Fool Money: 09.21.2012

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

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🗓️ 21 September 2012

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Apple's new iPhone goes on sale.  Microsoft increases its dividend.  Nike buys back shares.  And an online real estate company makes a big splash with its IPO.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

0:16.0

From Fool Global Headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

0:19.6

Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here. I'm your host, Chris Hill, and joining

0:22.7

me in studio this week from Motley Fool Inside Value Joe Megger, from Motley Fool Income

0:27.1

Investor James Early and for Million Dollar Portfolio, Ron Gross, gentlemen. Good to see you

0:31.3

as always. We have got dividends on the rise and one coffee stock on the decline. We've got

0:37.5

one hot internet IPO and one retailer leaving investors cold. And as always, we've got a few

0:43.4

stocks on our radar. But we begin with the biggest public company of all, and of course,

0:47.8

that is Apple. Guys, shares cross the $700 mark this week, but by Friday, the big story

0:54.2

was what CNBC was calling the Maps Fiasco. The operating system in the iPhone 5 has a new

1:05.7

built-in map system from Apple that replaces Google Maps and Joe, if the reports and what

1:12.5

we're seeing on Twitter and on Facebook is to be believed, people are just not happy.

1:17.7

So my question is, how bad is this for Apple? Well, it's bad in the sense that it's going

1:22.0

to shatter this image of Apple being the true absolute champion of user experience. Clearly,

1:28.0

from all the reports we've heard, Google Maps is a superior offering. So it's frustrating

1:32.9

if you're a user, like I personally not upgraded on iOS or upgraded iOS 6 because I don't want

1:39.0

to give up Google Maps. I'm pretty reliant on that. I do think that's going to hurt the

1:43.5

image in a long term sense, but there's still going to sell several dozen million of these

1:49.0

phones. At least a few dozen, I would think. So I don't think it's going to be a backbreaker.

1:53.0

James, it's just petty, too. That's the thing that gets me. I mean, that they're taking

1:56.1

a page out of Microsoft's playbook, and that's what I don't like. I don't know if Steve

1:59.7

Jobs would have done this, but I'm not sure he would have. I think what they're trying

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