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Apple’s new party trick
BofA Securities analyst Wamsi Mohan is leaning harder into Apple’s AI story. He reiterated a Buy rating on AAPL and bumped his price target to $380, up from $330, arguing that the next big smartphone upgrade cycle may not be about a shinier camera or a slightly faster chip. It may be about agentic AI — the kind of assistant that can actually do stuff for you instead of just answering questions like a glorified search box.
Why Wall Street is suddenly obsessed with the iPhone
Mohan’s pitch is pretty simple: the most valuable platform in an AI world is the one that sits closest to your intent, your identity, your apps, and your wallet. That’s Apple’s happy place. The company’s chips, iOS permissions, app access, and payment rails could give it leverage over model makers, app developers, merchants, advertisers, and payment networks. In other words, Apple doesn’t have to win the AI arms race by building the smartest robot in the room. It just has to be the room.
Siri gets a glow-up?
The analyst says Apple’s next move is to turn Siri into the iPhone’s orchestration layer — the thing that understands what you want, pulls the right context, calls apps, and finishes tasks without making you do the digital equivalent of filling out a DMV form. His wishlist includes:
- newer iPhones with much better on-device AI
- hybrid processing with Private Cloud Compute
- a more capable Siri that can route requests and complete workflows
- broader App Intents so apps can be machine-controlled
- stronger trust features, like permissions and user confirmation
The market read
Apple shares were already up 0.83% to $311.40 when this hit, so the stock clearly wasn’t exactly hiding in a bunker. But a bigger target from a major bank is still useful fuel for the “Apple as the AI gateway” bull case. If agentic AI really becomes the next consumer interface, Apple looks well positioned to collect tolls without having to build every bridge.
Big picture: the AI hype train still needs a conductor, and Wall Street keeps betting Apple is holding the whistle.