Apple experienced significant stock growth thanks to the iPhone, but even Steve Jobs & Co. are susceptible to the financial doldrums. The entire tech sector is chill’n on the poop shelf and Apple’s stock is following the crowd down the hole. For the first time since January 9, 2007 – the iPhone launched on the 10th – AAPL is below $85 a share. Even MacWorld might not help the stock as the fund dropped during the MacBook Pro announcements just weeks ago and took a nose dive during last years MacWorld Keynote. Still, the iPhone is going strong and recently became the best selling handheld in American history so while the stock might be in the bargain bin, someday it should regain its value. Hopefully.
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Matt Burns is a longtime technology journalist, now Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group and formerly Managing Editor at TechCrunch. At Insight Media Group, he guides coverage and editorial across fast-growing tech publications of The New Stack, Towards Data Science and Roadmap.sh. Before that, he spent 15+ years at TechCrunch, rising from contributor to Managing Editor, helping scale the newsroom and program Disrupt’s stages and TechCrunch’s other events. Earlier, he also wrote for Engadget. Matt co-founded the Resilience Conference, an event series at the intersection of defense, security, and startup innovation. Across roles, he’s reported on and moderated conversations in AI, mobility, frontier tech, and the hard problems technology companies face. He’s interviewed world leaders, top investors, startup founders, and public-company CEOs. Lifelong Michiganian with plenty of Silicon Valley miles, he brings Midwest empathy and an editor’s eye. Offstage, he works with teams to sharpen narrative and validate go-to-market plans, and, when possible, camping along Lake Michigan.
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