jonl

The new system with its inability to see one's own upvotes/downvotes when viewing threads, plus presenting the total number of upvotes/downvotes on the profile page, but again not showing the tallies for the individual posts, is the stupidest thing I've ever seen, to quote Steve Jobs (or was it Bill Gates). The old system was fine, and even better, it was not anonymous.

Also, I again find myself entering a message into a text box in Firefox where Ctrl+Left Arrow and Ctrl+Right Arrow takes me to the beginning and end of a line, respectively, instead of providing the standard behavior of skipping from word to word. I cannot even imagine how one manages to screw this up.

Is there anything better about the new forum software? I sure haven't noticed anything.

You guys realize the blackout period applies only to opportunistic buybacks, right? Scheduled buybacks proceed apace. Apple's been buying stock steadily every day.

Munster's brain is a smallish mass of neurons, randomly firing.

canukstorm said:

Makes no sense. This article contradicts this:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/28/angela-ahrendts-treats-apple-store-employees-like-execs-retained-81-of-workforce-in-2015

Working for an Apple store is not the same as working for Apple as a developer or engineer, which is what this article is about, as stated in its opening sentence.

apple iigs said:

Exactly why Tim Cook should stop kissing wall street. Stop giving Apple's money way. Stop buying back stock. Stop meeting with people like Carl Ichan. Stop all that. Stop paying so much attention to wall street Mr. Cook. They don't care about you or apple. Invest into Apple. Build Apple. Stop giving wall street anything.

Steve Jobs said it best. Paraphrasing... "when we as a company do good, the stock will follow."

Wall street is greedy. like the poster said. Apple give and gives. and wall street only wants more and more. Enough of this. Apple stop paying attention to this crap.

The problem is, they have no ideas on how to spend the $200 billion to grow Apple as you would like, and then there are the tax issues. They even ran a commercial in 2013 or 2014 stating they do a very few things, and they do them well. Returning the cash to investors is the thing to do in this situation, because it gives people a reason to buy the stock. It's not just for the benefit of evil Wall Street but also figures into attracting and keeping good people through stock options. The one thing you're right about is that it's been a thankless task, and the underlying problem remains that Apple is a hardware company. Cramer's mantra, "Own Apple, don't trade it" works only if you bought it many years ago. More recent buy-and-holders get to endure multiple 30-40% declines lasting many months at a time, all the while, the real sword of Damocles continues to dangle, because most of their revenue continues to come from the sale of devices.