Is it smart to buy Apple before it goes ex-dividend?

Apple is about to go ex-dividend in just 3 days. You can purchase shares before the 7th of February in order to receive the dividend, which the company will pay on the 13th of February.
Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance:Apple’s next dividend payment will be US$0.77 per share, and in the last 12 months, the company paid a total of US$3.08 per share. Based on the last year’s worth of payments, Apple stock has a trailing yield of around 1.0% on the current share price of $309.51.
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