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A New Threat to Apple?

By Chris Hill - Apr 5, 2013 at 8:30PM

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NASDAQ: AAPL

Apple Inc.

Market Cap

Today's Change

(1.89%) $2.63

Current Price

$141.56

Price as of July 5, 2022, 4:00 p.m. ET

Best Buy teams up with Samsung. Should Apple be worried?

The following video is from Friday's Motley Fool Money roundtable discussion, with host Chris Hill, and analysts Ron Gross, James Early, and Charly Travers.

Samsung announced it will open 1,400 mini-stores inside Best Buy (BBY 4.81%) locations across America this summer. Does the move pose a serious threat to Apple (AAPL 1.89%)? And speaking of Apple, Samsung is cutting prices on the iPad 3. Will Apple soon be launching a new iPad? In this installment of Motley Fool Money, our analysts talk about the smartphone wars.

The relevant video segment can be found between 0:23 and 2:20.

For the full video of today's Motley Fool Money, click here.

Stocks Mentioned

Apple Inc.

AAPL

$141.56 (1.89%) $2.63

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$69.98 (4.81%) $3.21

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