“Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, will host a conference call to announce the outcome of the company’s discussions concerning its cash balance.” Interesting. They have $100 billion on the bank – any guesses? Dividend payout? A large acquisition?
…it’s been staring me in the face this whole time.
They’re going to buy the US Patent & Trademark Office.
Called it.
Hopefully they will do something cool like invest in resources to make a modern NeXT station. Yeah!
Next NeXT station?
Ha, with that much money, they might just by the US
Rolling On the Floor, Laughing! Excellent one.
LOL They’re going to become “Brawndo” from idiocracy.
“You have to buy an iPad…..it’s got megapixels! It’s what people crave.”
“What’s a MegaPixel?! Do you even know what a megapixel IS?!”
“Duuhhhhhh ummmm duuuuhhhh it’s what people crave!”
Their going to sit on it for another year.
Somewhere before the 12 months is out their going to buy Twitter.
set it all on fire and laugh.
Saving to buy Microsoft?
A world wide carrier that delivers unlimited plans for all Apple devices at break even cost.
Would drive sales of new products and allow Apple to add any feature without carrier consent.
It would revolutionize the market.
It would indeed create a revolution.
We can say what we want on Apple, they’ve been pretty effective when it comes to changing a market.
Before the App Store, most software publishers were charging WAY more than 30% when you wanted to sell mobile apps through their platform. Same goes for music.
They also force carriers to sell you smartphones with no added bullshit. With the apple tv, I’m sure they will eventually succeed at forcing hollywood to license its content.
Personally, I wouldn’t subscribe to Apple as a carrier because of privacy concerns and because I do not own idevices anyway.
But I seriously hope they, at some point, create competition among carriers because it will force other behemoths to change. And I’m not blind mind you, I know it benefits them first and foremost to “change the world” and the customer/developer/musician satisfaction is only a nice side effect.
Apple is going to change their name to Weyland-Yutani Corporation and start “Building Better Worlds”…..
Probably this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2m–tzNObc
After reading their Financial Statement Apple only has 10billion in real Cash in their bank account.. the rest of the 90B has already been spent on US Government Bonds and Other Corporate securities. They would have to sell their Bonds and securities to raise real “cash”.
Both of them are so easy to sell that they are mostly equivalent to cash.
…To build something that actually matters to the world.
iPads and iPhones are the modern day equivilant of Rubik’s Cubes and Yoyos.
Except they cost a whole lot more and need replacement every 12 months.
This gimmick can’t run out of steam fast enough for me.
And what is not? Android phones or tablets? LOL
Yeah, you can perform phone calls and browse the web, navigate, organize stuff, watch online video and read documents with Yoyo. I occasionally use my Android phone for some GPU coding fun. Also I use clojure and emulators.
That could be said about computer stuff overall.
Edited 2012-03-20 12:10 UTC
Well, they will build a spaceship, to up to the Moon and make it in the shape of an Apple logo.
There, a hundred bil well spent.
Actually, if they would do it, I couldn’t say it would surprise me, coming from Apple.
So they “invented” the Moon as well? 😀
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/03/apples-plans-for-its-100-…
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/03/what-apples-dividend-and-…