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Apple just announced a major restructuring.  Tim Cook himself along with rants from Ahrends and a Cue from Eddie cooked up this idea over the last six months that Apple stock took a beating and broke the news in a classic midnight event hosted at their new Star Wars campus in Cupertino.

The new organization will be called Tree.  This tree will bear many new fruit along with other existing fruits, Apple being the biggest.  Smaller fruits will include berries like the recent acquisition bombshell of making Blackberry one of the fruit on the Tree.

This drove the Apple stock price skyhigh that the Tree started looking more like a Redwood rather than a fruiting variety.  To ensure alignment with this newfound image Cook than roasted Oracle's goose and acquired all of Redwood Shores where Oracle is housed (along with Redwood City with plans to also eventually acquire Palo Alto and surrounding real estate).  Larry's Lanai acquisition merely looks like a condo in comparison to the Apple move.  When you got billions show it.

Therefore the Tree now has its World HQ in two places like a banyan tree has roots all over the place, one in Star Wars campus in Cupertino, CA and the other in Redwood Shores, CA.

Representatives of Golden, Murugan and Openyammer were at hand as the financial wizards that unlocked share holder value.  Large amounts of fanfare and candles and fireworks followed this announcement along with the lighting of the Diya (Indian oil lamp) by the newly anointed CEO (another bombshell - not to be confused with prior fireworks) to compete with the South Indian invasion in all things tech.

This new dude hails from Kerala - the other south Indian state who had not seen their representation in America's tech leadership.  His name - Bahubali Ganesan.

A graduate of 'A School I did not go to' he has been an exemplary leader in all aspects of fruit rearing and a supplementary degree from France in agriculture adds to his charisma.

He leads a Gandhian lifestyle with no interest in being the face of Apple and is reportedly media shy - another reason why no one has heard of this force in the dark.

Tim will primarily be cyclist in chief - helping newly hired interns learn the street maps (of the newly released Apple campus Map) on a cycle, which will be battery operated and give Musk nightmares.  This will ensure a work life balance for Tim who is a fitness freak.  Balance is also very important for riding bicycles.

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