Nuthin’ But A 5G Thang
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🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Apple’s iPhone 12 event was all about 5G. Tim Beyers analyzes the new devices and shares two additional companies with a stake in Apple’s fortunes. Plus we discuss the latest earnings from UnitedHealth and whether its worth holding on to shares of Disney that bought in 1993.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 14th. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me today. |
| 0:08.0 | Our man in Colorado, it's Tim Byers. |
| 0:10.0 | Good to see you. |
| 0:11.0 | Good to see you, sir. |
| 0:13.0 | We have got the latest from United Health. |
| 0:15.0 | We are going to dip into the full mail bag, but we're going to start with yesterday's event that Apple held. |
| 0:21.0 | Apple unveiled four new versions of the iPhone 12, including the mini, the pro, the pro max. |
| 0:30.0 | Tim Cook said this is the beginning of a new era and this from an optic standpoint |
| 0:37.8 | Tim this appeared to be very much about not just the new phones but 5G. The CEO of Verizon Hans Vespers |
| 0:48.0 | joined Cook on stage from a safe social distance. What did you think of that, we'll get into the phones |
| 0:58.2 | themselves in a second but what did you think of the 5G messaging that was coming out of Apple yesterday? |
| 1:05.6 | Oh, it was amazing messaging. |
| 1:07.8 | If only it were as accurate as the hype was making it out to be. |
| 1:14.0 | I take, so my headline on this Chris is that this is an amazing announcement for a lot of people but not necessarily Apple. |
| 1:23.8 | The 5G, here's the problem with the 5G news. |
| 1:26.5 | If you put cardboard in front of a millimeter wave 5G device, then that 5G device is essentially it is stopped from doing any kind of 5G |
| 1:39.9 | broadcasting. It's not that Apple has done anything bad here. |
| 1:44.8 | It's that they're touting 5G in a way that makes you believe that as long as you have |
| 1:50.8 | a phone that says 5G, you are going to get 5G speeds. |
| 1:55.0 | That's just frankly not true. |
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