Google's Early Approach to Take on Apple Watch, Improving iOS 9 Adoption is High Priority, One Drawback of Holding $194 Billion of Cash

Today's Above Avalon stories: 

  • Google's Early Approach to Take on Apple Watch
  • Improving iOS 9 Adoption is High Priority at Apple
  • One Drawback of Holding $194 Billion of Cash

We kick things off today by talking about Google's new health-tracking wristband and why health is shaping up to be a potential competitive tool to go up against Apple Watch. We next discuss one new feature found in the second beta of iOS 9 yesterday focused on improving iOS 9 adoption rates. Evidence is adding up that management has placed improving OS adoption rates as a high priority. We conclude by discussing one drawback Apple faces by holding so much cash on its balance sheet.
 

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