Apple Opens First Store in Malaysia, Apple and Emerging Markets, Signal-to-Noise

Today's Above Avalon Daily email contains the following stories:

• Apple Opens First Store in Malaysia

• Apple and Emerging Markets

• Signal-to-Noise

Welcome to a new week. Today's update will take us through Apple Retail land. We begin with Apple opening its first store in Malaysia. The discussion will then turn more broadly to Apple’s emerging markets opportunity and the impact such countries can have on Apple’s installed base growth. We conclude with the signal-to-noise topic which came to mind when thinking about Apple’s store opening in Malaysia.

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