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Quote: Originally Posted by I am a Zither Zather Zuzz Has this sort of thing ever been done by companies in the past? In any industry? Has Ford ever had the top 3 car models all at once? Have there been musical groups with the top 3 singles…
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As an Apple stockholder, I think this is great news. But another way to read the headline is: Apple customers pay far more beyond above unit cost than customers of competitive phones. Nothing inherently wrong with that, just pointing out …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Swift You didn't read the story, did you. I guess your little own apocalyptic drama fit better, so why not get all dramatic? They were all doing it. It's all over now. They've agreed to stop. In 2007, Jobs asked Schmid…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Well, Steve made great products. Bill made great copies. Other than the lying to the creator of DOS to get an improbable discount and the theft of Mac OS 1.0 to make Windows and stagnate the industry fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta You're using the capital gains tax rate - and dividends are NOT taxed at capital gains rates. Not so fast. We've got another year of tax-advantaged status for dividends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Can you show me any serious research that links PEG to anything? I'm not sure what you're hoping it links to? Much like P/E, PEG is just another tool for comparing valuation. P/E can be useful for …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I take it you weren't around for the 80s or 90s, so I'll make the overarching statement that others are implying: Windows would not exist without Microsoft's theft of software from Apple. Period. I w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Dividends are flat taxed at 15% (even less for very low earners), which is way less than most of us pay for earned income. As we know this is the aspect of the tax code that's helped the rich get way richer…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Except that cash is not subtracted from share value to calculate PE (and debt is not added). Stockholders have absolutely no access to this cash unless the company pays a dividend, so the share value minus …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Actually, even that's misleading. Apple's market cap is $400 B. They have about $100 B in cash, so the share price values the company at $300 B - or something like 8-9 times earnings. WAY lower than any ration…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Red Oak I'm not sure why Apple does not do a massive stock buyback given it is undervalued. Something in the order of $50 billion dollars. Investors are not valuing the company properly and Apple should take advantag…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton I challenge you to name one company that has done more. I challenge you to name one company that releases annual audit reports and shows that poor conditions have been addressed and corrected. Nike.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Indeed, and since Apple legally DOES control Steve's likeness in at least some states, this figurine's legality is moot. What? Where did you hear this? Since when do our employers control our likeness? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton I don't really get this "tribute." Seems opportunistic. Sort of like Franklin Mint's "Twin Towers 2001" collectible coins. There are better ways to pay tribute than that. Whether it's a tribute or no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by zaren It's just you. Serifs, different thicknesses of the lines... Garamond is a Serif font. Note that I'm not suggesting they copied the font on Apple's slide, just that they used the font that was, for decades, as…
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Is it just me, or did they even use Garamond for their font?
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In principle I agree with the folks saying that it's nobody's business who Steve Jobs donates his money to. Except that... He *sought out* a biographer to write the story of his life. The story includes intimate details about his relationship wit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacBook Pro This article isn't worth discussion. The report is fundamentally flawed. "According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, Android?s operating system (OS) share of smartphone sales grew to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by halfyearsun Apple has had voice recognition for as long or longer. It sucked just as bad as googles The voice calling Apple had previously was somewhat akin to the voice dialing that has been available on bargain ba…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Santoanderson I think the whole "think up an original idea" line is meant to be "Hey Google, why don't YOU come out with the brand new, killer feature that everyone talks about, first? It just seems like you scoffed sa…