iPhone owners are dishonest, scientists say. Who really owns Apple's money?

Is it really difficult to look at open and completely official data from the register of shareholders? There is nothing simpler, and we can easily do it ourselves:
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 5.68%
State Street Corporation 4.11%
FMR, LLC 3.07%
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. 2.72%
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation 1.42%
Northern Trust Corporation 1.39%
BlackRock Fund Advisors 1.21%

Amazing. discovery, but Carl Icahn is not even among the ten largest shareholders of Apple! Who are these mysterious real owners?

In first place is Vanguard Group - for the uninitiated reader, and for many economists, the name is unfamiliar, although in any reference book you can find information that the company controls assets of as much as 2 trillion dollars ($2000 billion). Which is three times the cost of the same Apple! These are such modest people. In fact, the amount of assets under their control is several times larger, but we will look at this later.

Before moving on to further analysis of the shareholder structure and ownership, we should make a short digression.

The ideals of democracy(C) and the media image that serves as a screen for the true owners do not sit well with the fact that all of the world's largest companies are owned by the same few people. How to hide this obvious contradiction? Everything is very simple - you need to create the appearance that there are supposedly many owners (shareholders) and they are all “different”.

Indeed, how can the “masters of the world” have a measly 5-6% of shares? Any liberal will laugh in your face if you tell him this. The fact that these “measly six percent” are worth forty to fifty billion dollars does not bother anyone - with such a modest package it is guaranteed to appoint its own CEO. For full control a company with a turnover of hundreds of billions of dollars requires twenty percent - no more is needed, since it is impossible for competitors to collect a packet of more than 20% (it will cost under a hundred yards).

And suddenly, some Chinese will buy as much as seven percent of the shares and they will be able to run everything in the largest American company?

“This shouldn’t happen!” - the real masters of the world decided a long time ago and hedged their bets.

To understand how they exercised total control and maintained the appearance of the absence of one owner, we return to our list of shareholders. In second place is the company:

State Street Corporation - owns 4.11%

And who are they, the ordinary reader will ask? And again Google (yahoo) helps us:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=STT+Major+Holders

And who are its largest shareholders?

1.Massachusetts Financial Services Co (Canadian Insurance Company- who owns confusingly)
2.Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc - 7%
3.Vanguard Group (where would we be without him!) - 6%
4. BlackRock (coming soon!) - 5%

Let's take an even deeper look at who is the shareholder of Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc

and we see the same acquaintances: Vanguard and BlackRock (remember this name, it often appears, going hand in hand with our main character)

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=TRow+Major+Holders

That is, in exactly the same manner, the monster Vanguard controls the second main shareholder of Apple! A simple trick and ten percent of the apple's shares are already in your pocket. But that's not all!

In the top ten there are two companies with a similar name BlackRock &BlaBla and the third time the name BlackRock is mentioned in State Street shareholders. (by the way, Vanguard has such subsidiaries dozens - so it’s not a fact that we can count all their possessions even approximately - even the largest ones)

Naturally, among the owners of BlackRock we find all the same people: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=BLK

Add another four percent and we already get 14% of all Apple shares held by one company - Vanguard! And again, that's not all.

What else is left among the dummy owners of Yablouk?

FMR LLC (Fidelity Management and Research), Fidelity Investments, similarly, we will find exactly identical names among the shareholders: Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, and so on.

That is, Fidelity is again controlled by Vanguard Group!

Total: a “modest” 17% in the piggy bank.

A remarkable scheme of mutual ownership and cross-shareholding. And if any of the shareholders seems not to be directly connected with Vanguard, then its shareholders are definitely under their control, and even in the third iteration (level) the same will happen.

That is, Vanguard:

1. Officially - the main shareholder of Apple. For comparison, the clown who publicly portrays Apple's largest shareholder, Carl Icahn, has only 1% of the shares, which is five times less than this one package.

2. Vanguard also has the largest stakes in almost all other companies that own large shares of Apple. But even that is not enough!

3. Vanguard not only owns the largest blocks of shares, but also controls the shareholders of the companies from point 2.!!!

And in conclusion, a quote from Tatyana Volkova’s blog on the topic:

About the octopus, the pyramid - and in general a continuation about Vanguard

This is the picture that has emerged so far in the investigation. The largest companies in the world are banks Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Let's see who their largest shareholders are. Bank of America: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), Paulson, JP Morgan, T. Rowe, Capital World Investors, AXA, Bank of NY, Mellon.

JP Morgan: State Street Corp., Vanguard Group, FMR, BlackRock, T. Rowe, AXA, Capital World Investor, Capital Research Global Investor, Northern Trust Corp. and Bank of Mellon.

Citigroup: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Paulson, FMR, Capital World Investor, JP Morgan, Northern Trust Corporation, and Fairhome Capital Mgmt and Bank of NY Mellon.

Wells Fargo: Berkshire Hathaway, FMR, State Street, Vanguard Group, Capital World Investors, BlackRock, Wellington Mgmt, AXA, T. Rowe and Davis Selected Advisers.

Then check for yourself. The largest financial companies are fully controlled by ten institutional and/or stock shareholders, from which a core of four companies can be identified that are present in all cases and in all decisions: Vanguard, Fidelity, BlackRock and State Street. They all 'own each other', but if you carefully balance the shareholdings, you will find that in reality Vanguard controls all of these partners or 'competitors', that is, Fidelity, BlackRock and State Street.

Now let's look at the 'tip of the iceberg'. That is, a few, selected as the largest, companies in various industries controlled by these 'Big Four', and upon closer examination, simply Vanguard Corporation: Alcoa Inc.

Altria Group Inc., American International Group Inc., AT&T Inc., Boeing Co., Caterpillar Inc., Coca-Cola Co., DuPont & Co., Exxon Mobil Corp., General Electric Co., General Motors Corporation, Hewlett- Packard Co., Home Depot Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase & Co., McDonald's Corp., Merck & Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp., 3M Co., Pfizer Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., United Technologies Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, CBS Corporation, NBC Universal...

Yes, you guessed it right - we are talking about British scientists. Psychologists from the Universities of Lincoln and Lancaster recently published the full results of their study in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking.

Over the course of two years (2015-2016), they talked to 530 people and asked each study participant a lot of questions. The questions related to personal characteristics, behavior patterns, and preferences in choosing mobile phone. And, as it turns out, the choice of Android/iOS can really say something about a person.

“I was concluded that iPhone owners are most likely young people. And there are more women among them. In addition, most of them are confident that the telephone is not just a means of communication, but a sign of status,” the scientists write.

It turns out that the owners of “Google Phones” are right in their claims and Apple for many is not so much smart choice, how much is “playing to the public”?

But that is not all! According to British scientists, iPhone owners are less honest and conscientious compared to those who chose Android. They are also much more selfish, emotional, uninhibited and prone to violating moral standards.

Scientists write about the owners of Google phones - they are older, more conscientious, and easier to negotiate with. conflict situation. They are less interested in the cost of the phone.

“Our phones are essentially our electronic copies, noted one of the researchers, Heather Shaw. - It’s not surprising that many people don’t like it when someone else picks up their phone. This device can say a lot about us.”

According to Ellis, the next interesting step will be to study people who switched from iPhone to Android and vice versa. What has changed so seriously about them? In addition, the scientist asks not to transfer the results of the study to every owner of an iPhone or Google Phone. Obviously, everyone is different. But based on some characteristics, the majority have common features.

What do you think about this opus of British psychologists? In my personal opinion, 530 people is not such a large sample. In addition, it is obvious that the iPhone is an expensive and high-status device. There are basically no cheap iPhones. Well, there are many different “androids”. It would be interesting to compare the statements of owners of Apple phones and top-end Samsung phones, for example. Well, perhaps scientists will do this too, what else can they do?

Recently, the world was shocked by sensational news - the capitalization of the Bitten Apple company exceeded $700 billion. But that’s not all: “Apple investor and major shareholder Carl Icahn estimated the value of one share of this company at $216, which is $91 higher than their current value

Recently, the world was shocked by sensational news - the capitalization of the Bitten Apple company exceeded $700 billion.

But that's not all:

“Apple investor and major shareholder Carl Icahn estimated the value of one share of this company at $216, which is $91 higher than their current value. According to Icahn, Apple’s capitalization should be about $1.3 trillion” (RBC)

Let's leave the question of the fairness of such a fantastic share price, and take it as a fact that Apple is the largest global company. Let's ask a simple but sensitive question: who owns this company, at a cost equal to the budgets of several European countries combined?

It would seem that the quote from RBC clearly and clearly states that the main shareholder is a certain Carl Icahn, an eccentric billionaire, a cynical business shark, a famous raider and extortionist, a brawler and much more. In fact, it is he who is most often mentioned in the media as the main shareholder and newsmaker. There is also Tim Cook - CEO Apple (the one that is officially gay), but he is a figure appointed by the shareholders, that is, he is not the owner in any way.

However, after carefully studying the situation, we discover amazing fact- billionaire Carl Icahn owns only 1 (one) percent of Apple shares. Of course, the cost of even one percent is a huge amount, but it’s only one hundredth! Where is the rest? The question is not so much hidden, but in the example of the same RBC, it is not only hushed up, but also openly falsified in the media.

Is it really difficult to look at open and completely official data from the register of shareholders? There is nothing simpler, and we can easily do it ourselves:

Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 5.68%

State Street Corporation 4.11%

FMR, LLC 3.07%

BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. 2.72%

Bank of New York Mellon Corporation 1.42%

Northern Trust Corporation 1.39%

BlackRock Fund Advisors 1.21%

Amazing. discovery, but Carl Icahn is not even among the ten largest shareholders of Apple! Who are these mysterious real owners?

Before moving on to further analysis of the shareholder structure and ownership, we should make a short digression.

Indeed, how can the “masters of the world” have a measly 5-6% of shares? Yes, any liberal will laugh in your face if you tell him this. The fact that these “measly six percent” are worth forty to fifty billion dollars does not bother anyone - with such a modest package it is guaranteed to appoint its own CEO. For complete control of a company with a turnover of hundreds of billions of dollars, twenty percent is required - no more is needed, since it is impossible for competitors to collect a packet of more than 20% (it will cost under a hundred yards).

And suddenly, some Chinese will buy as much as seven percent of the shares and they will be able to run everything in the largest American company?

“This shouldn’t happen!” - the real masters of the world decided a long time ago and hedged their bets.

To understand how they exercised total control and maintained the appearance of the absence of one owner, we return to our list of shareholders. In second place is the company:

State Street Corporation - owns 4.11%

And who are they, the ordinary reader will ask? And again Google (yahoo) helps us:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=STT+Major+Holders

And who are its largest shareholders?

1.Massachusetts Financial Services Co (Canadian insurance company - who owns it confusingly)

2.Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc - 7%

3.Vanguard Group (where would we be without him!) - 6%

4. BlackRock (coming soon!) - 5%

Let's take an even deeper look at who is the shareholder of Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc

and we see the same acquaintances: Vanguard and BlackRock (remember this name, it often appears, going hand in hand with our main character)

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=TRow+Major+Holders

In the top ten there are two companies with a similar name BlackRock &BlaBla and the third time the name BlackRock is mentioned in State Street shareholders. (by the way, Vanguard has dozens of such subsidiaries - so it’s not a fact that we can count all of their holdings even approximately - even the largest ones)

Naturally, among the owners of BlackRock we find all the same people:

Add another four percent and we already get 14% of all Apple shares held by one company - Vanguard! And again, that's not all.

What else is left among the dummy owners of Yablouk?

FMR LLC (Fidelity Management and Research), Fidelity Investments, similarly, we will find exactly identical names among the shareholders: Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, and so on.

That is, Fidelity is again controlled by Vanguard Group!

Total: a “modest” 17% in the piggy bank.

That is, Vanguard:

2. Vanguard also has the largest stakes in almost all other companies that own large shares of Apple. But even that is not enough!

3. Vanguard not only owns the largest blocks of shares, but also controls the shareholders of the companies from point 2.!!!

And in conclusion, a quote from Tatyana Volkova’s blog on the topic:

About the octopus, the pyramid - and in general a continuation about Vanguard

This is the picture that has emerged so far in the investigation. The largest companies in the world are Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

JP Morgan: State Street Corp., Vanguard Group, FMR, BlackRock, T. Rowe, AXA, Capital World Investor, Capital Research Global Investor, Northern Trust Corp. and Bank of Mellon.

Citigroup: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Paulson, FMR, Capital World Investor, JP Morgan, Northern Trust Corporation, and Fairhome Capital Mgmt and Bank of NY Mellon.

Wells Fargo: Berkshire Hathaway, FMR, State Street, Vanguard Group, Capital World Investors, BlackRock, Wellington Mgmt, AXA, T. Rowe and Davis Selected Advisers.

Then check for yourself. The largest financial companies are fully controlled by ten institutional and/or stock shareholders, from which a core of four companies can be identified that are present in all cases and in all decisions: Vanguard, Fidelity, BlackRock and State Street. They all “belong to each other,” but if you carefully balance the shareholdings, you will find that Vanguard actually controls all of these partners or “competitors,” that is, Fidelity, BlackRock and State Street.

Now let's look at the "tip of the iceberg". That is, several selected as the largest companies in various industries controlled by these "Big Four" and, upon closer examination, simply the Vanguard corporation: Alcoa Inc. Altria Group Inc., American International Group Inc., AT&T Inc., Boeing Co., Caterpillar Inc., Coca-Cola Co., DuPont & Co., Exxon Mobil Corp., General Electric Co., General Motors Corporation, Hewlett- Packard Co., Home Depot Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase & Co., McDonald's Corp., Merck & Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp. ., 3M Co., Pfizer Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., United Technologies Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, CBS Corporation, NBC Universal... published

For a company of Apple's stature, it is very important point is to determine the target audience. Sometimes multi-page reports are published on this issue, sometimes cartoon articles are published. We decided to collect the most objective materials and find out who most often goes to the store to buy an iPhone. IN Nizhny Novgorod, in Vladivostok or in Moscow - we did not do any special gradation here. We looked at Russia as a whole and on average. The same principle applies to the USA.

Rich and well-read

Let's start with the overseas guys. Polls show that there the target audience The “apple corporation” is characterized not only by a certain level of income, but also by a certain (usually high) level of education. Apple smartphones are acquired precisely because of their functions, but status also matters. The wealthier a US citizen, the more likely it is that he has an iPhone rather than an Android smartphone. Judging by surveys, if an American’s income is more than 150 thousand a year, then he will almost certainly have a phone with an Apple symbol in his hands. But, as we have already mentioned, it is not only about income, but also about education. Here is the percentage of people with higher education also more, but among those who only finished school, Android is more popular more than twice. And yet, a lot has been written about the iPhone being preferred by “whites” (we hope we don’t sound “racist”): less than 20% of African Americans (and about the same number of Latinos) choose products from the concern that Steve Jobs founded.

Love for the special spirit of Apple in our country.

And now about us. If you are an observant person, then you can clearly see that in Russia there is no direct dependence of owning an iPhone on income level.

Here we are incredibly loved by young and very young people. A quarter are people under 23 years of age. About 20% are from 24 to 29 years old.

Accordingly, the older age group we take the less iPhone owners among it we will find. A third of respondents in Russia firmly believe that this is a smartphone without flaws, an ideal companion for all occasions. At the same time, every fourth owner lives with the thought that he will definitely acquire new model when she comes out. The reports that caught our eye did not say anything about the level of education, but there is, for example, data that the iPhone 5 in Russia is bought more by the fairer sex. These are the statistics!

Steve Jobs was a great dreamer, and he probably would have even enjoyed watching his fans here with us, on another continent with a different mentality. It feels like nowhere more iPhone So they don’t appreciate the spirit (even before the functionality).