sunman42

Mr. Douglas appears to be channeling his late father.

Ken Burns did a 4-hour (short for him) film on Franklin's entire life for PBS a couple of years ago. You can see aa discussion Burns had with Mandy Patinkin, who voiced Franklin's own words for the PBS movie, and Michael Douglas at:

https://www.pbs.org/video/a-discussion-with-mandy-patinkin-and-michael-douglas-flo8rz/ .

I broke down and paid Amazon its $3 a month hush money to avoid ads in Prime Video (other than, of course, its FreeVee offerings). Guess I'd have to do the same with Apple TV+ if offered the choice of that or oh so tasteful, oh so well curated ads.

Ontogeny really doesn't recapitulate phylogeny in the real world, but streaming video appears to be copying the bottomless descent of cable. Heck, I'm old enough to remember when the History Channel actually had history programming instead of, y'know, sharks, Nazis, and early medieval Scandinavians with axes behaving badly.

In addition to customary qualifications for the job, I suggest that the Apple Board have a battle of the bands to see who shreds the best. Craig would be a shoo-in.

Amazon already has a substantial (~ 18%, iirc) investment in Rivian. Does Apple management really want to get into the same bed as the Smiley-face people, even as a majority owner?

Massiveattack87 said:

Just ridiculous and "doomed" actions by AAPL. 

Human rights? Liberties? Gender pay gap?? All those things are really essential and should have been executed from the beginning on. 

What did AAPL say how to boost their stock price and how to generate their sales with "AI" etc.? 

No highlights in terms of their stategies??

Ridiculous and laughable. 

Nice of you to come out from under your bridge.

Apple has maintained, as long as I've been aware of (> 25 years), that it obeys the laws in any country in which it sells it products. Nothing new to see there, so move along. If you want proactive, note that Apple has more than once sent its CEO to negotiate face-to-face with Chinese government officials to prevent even more odious restrictions being placed on Apple's operations in China (e.g. data sharing).

Apple's share price is boosted by introducing products and services that turn out to be popular — not by talking about them at once a year shareholder's meetings.

 If, by the way, you're an Apple shareholder, the current share prices appear to be a bit of a bargain, so I'm guessing you could find a buyer if you want to unload yours.