Apple Faces 'First Serious Threat In 20 Years' As OpenAI Acquires iPhone Maker's Former Design Chief Jony Ive's Hardware Startup, Says Gene Munster

Gene Munster, Managing Partner at Deepwater Asset Management, warned Wednesday that OpenAI represents the first serious competitive threat to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in two decades following the artificial intelligence company’s $6.5 billion acquisition of former Apple design chief Jony Ive‘s hardware startup. What Happened: “The real risk for AAPL is whether the threat of these devices from OpenAI compresses Apple’s multiple,” Munster wrote on X, highlighting concerns about the iPhone maker’s