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9secondkox2 said: Um… EVERYONE knew the iPhone was a hit right off the bat. 

Very few people understood the importance of "apps" when the iPhone originally launched. 

jeffharris said:

Does this mean we’ll see some native Macintosh games? 

Negatory. 

Not really "half" the price of Pro Display XDR at $3199 versus $4999. The Dell doesn't offer a nano-texture option so $4999 is the price to compare with. At a glance, brightness and contrast ratio for the Dell are significantly lower...450 nits versus 1000-1600 nits, 2,000:1 versus 1,000,000:1. 

mike eggleston said:

I think the most damning part of the article is right here:

Large companies have complex financial systems, so it isn't going to be clear how the money saved from laying off those employees will be used. However, it is damning when a $70 billion stock buyback program was announced in one week, then SEC filings show the CEO got a raise in the next.

This is the smoking gun right here. A CEO knows that if they do layoffs, stock prices usually rise because the P/E ratio rises; then on top of that, a stock buyback means that Google (read: Sundar) knows that the price per share for that stock will skyrocket because there are fewer shares in the wild. As a result, the number of shares he gets (usually a fixed number of shares, depending on how well their stock is doing) will be worth substantially more.

In summary, I think the SEC should investigate his ass and see if insider trading laws can be applied to him.

What you describe is one of the primary reasons corporate executives do stock buybacks: it typically generates a personal windfall per the stock value. Even though it IS scammy, it's not something the SEC would be concerned with. Better approach would be for Congress to make buybacks illegal again like they were prior to 1982.  

9secondkox2 said: No business owner who actually cares about staying in business wants to deal with union crap. 

Business owners don't like unions because the union does the same thing they do: use whatever leverage is available to get better terms for themselves. Nobody in corporate management is shy about using leverage so there's no reason for the union to be shy about it either.