candidate. you download this app, enter your zip code, and you would then be told by the app which opposition candidate in your district had the best chances of taking down a member of putin s party. that smart voting app, that whole idea was such a big threat to putin and his party that just days before the national election, the russian government started harassing google and am, literally threatening to prosecute russian-based employees of those companies if google and apple didn t pull the app from their app stores. and google and apple said, sure, okay. no problem. they caved. right before the election, the companies pulled the app from their platforms, letting the russian government have even more control over their already rigged elections, and kneecapping the opposition in their best effort, their best hope to finally stand up candidates against putin s party. google went one step further,
fixed and a perfect example is equifax. that was something they knew about and they didn t fixed. apple didn t know about it. once they found out about it they took responsible action. the question is how much should a company be responsible for knowing about a product that has billions of devices out there? it s a tough row to hoe. you want to protect privacy but you have to be a little realistic. sandra: as you point out privacy is the cornerstone of apple s market. we expect if we get a phone call or facetime call that nobody is going to see or hear us until we accept that call. that wasn t happening in this instance, morgan. no. in fact, they even went beyond. it was the video. there are a couple of blogs that follow macs that could show how to get the video as well by exploiting a couple flaws in the product. so i tell you, the law of unintended consequences. people want the technology but
lot so i don t get too alarm when he says dire things because he s smiling as he says it but one of the things he said, mostly was there are going to be a lot of companies reporting exposure to china and it s going to impact their earnings. now, they might a good man it of them i use it as an excuse but it s palpable. what are we likely to see? i think when first quarter earnings start in the next couple weeks we ll see what happens but remember apple didn t have good earnings before they came out with this last week. the last quarter of 2018 they got down and never recovered since then. they ve been selling off. neil: this is about revenues right? most companies would love to have the revenues that apple does. but apple is still a strong company, apple isn t going anywhere they could turnaround like that. neil: would you recommend apple? not to buy right now. neil: dan would you? actually i would. i do think there s runway with apple. i think part of this is a little bit of he
figuring what you want to hear. and he figured out what jonathan wanted was jonathan was after was getting the story and the facts right. he pulled you right in. he just like stuck out that worm on the end of the hook and yanked. he s really good. by the way, his father did this. oh. so the apple didn t fall far? he didn t use mr. baron. he used mr. green. that s what he used when he called up reporters. yes, he was mr. green. and donald s sister told me that she and her husband, a lawyer named john barry, they used to have a joke they were going to call donald s office and say there s a subpoena for john baron and see what happens.
true. is this the way you see donald trump, president trump hungry for affirmation? absoluterly. he s a conman and a salesman. i think what was interesting in those tapes he s really good at figuring what you want to hear. and he figured out what jonathan wanted was jonathan was after was getting the story and the facts right. he pulled you right in. he just like stuck out that worm on the end of the hook and yanked. he s really good. by the way, his father did this. oh. so the apple didn t fall far? he didn t use mr. baron. he used mr. green. that s what he used when he called up reporters. yes, he was mr. green. and donald s sister told me that