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Last quarter before Trump tariffs sees Apple beat Wall Street with $95.4 billion earnings
melgross said:I’m still ticked at Apple’s indifference to direct shareholder benefits. Seriously, a 4% increase in dividend payments when they declare another massive $100 billion in buybacks? It should have been at least a 10% increase and they could have taken a few billion off the buybacks and nobody would have noticed. I’d also rather see them begin to pay off the $132 billion in debt instead of constantly increasing it in order to pay for buybacks. This is not good, folks.Mel stock buybacks is a management and Wall Street insider 1% thing which should be illegal, oh that’s right it was illegal for a long time after the 1929 crash until it was made legal again. It will just keep going on until the upper division or the general public come to their senses and make it illegal again, and as a long time investor I hate it, but the system is the system. on the bright side Apple keeps iterating. They’ve had several splits (4) since the year 2000 and they do pay a dividend, which, depending upon how many shares you own, still pays out quite nicely.
The General public at the grassroots level in reality doesn’t own that many shares on Wall Street despite some of the rosy statistics put out by the financial industry mutual funds don’t really count the returns on them while good aren’t even close to owning individual shares. Stock ownership by the public is usually inflated by including ownership in mutual funds, but it is not the same as ownership of individual shares.
Something else I might add owning individual shares, stock splits, and dividends are the three best ways to compound your investment as an individual stock holder, over the years if you look at some of the financial sites and look at some of the forums, many of the so=called management class professional investors? Always argue against stock splits or even paying dividends to individual share owners, which is no surprise to me now after owning shares and participating in some of the forums over the years.
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Epic Games vs Apple -- The continuing App Store saga
loopless said:So I guess the end result could be an app developer can now be on the App Store as a free app, then have a link to an outside payment system to activate paid features as to completely bypass paying Apple for the incredible value of the iOS ecosystem and App Store?That will mean the end of the App Store and all the freebies/low prices for the developers and the public, After all, there was a time when the developer tools cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars many of the developers are going to get sticker shock when they presented the bill for X code and all the other API’s develop over the years. It will also mean a smaller more highly curated App Store similar to what Nintendo or Sony has done the Gold Rush Pioneer days are coming to an end, Sometimes you can’t have good things at least not for long until people F it up.
Does anyone know how many apps are in the App Store? Is it 2 million, 3 million, Out of all those apps, how many does Apple really need to have a valuable ecosystem across five Apple OS’s? 200,000 300,000 apps? In reality, it’s probably not that many for every ten apps there are maybe three out of ten apps that are any good, in short the number of good apps needed isn’t infinite, the number of cad or word processing, page layout, calculator programs, note taking programs is finite, even the game category isn’t infinite, most people believe it or not don’t play games at least not the tech boy AAA games if that was true Apple would’ve already been dead as a company years.
Sony and Nintendo seem to survive worldwide, being in the Apple Appstore is a privilege not a right many of the developers think it’s their God given right to be there for free….
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Meta, Spotify lobby to pass the buck on age verification to Apple and Google
Judge Gonzalez Rogers would probably agree Apple and Google should do it for free as a service and if Epic over charges a minor in any of their games in the Apple AppStore, Apple should be the one to give a refund too why not….
Epic and Qualcomm seem to have better junkyard dog lawyers than Apple, it seems the more outrageous the argument the better chance you have at being successful, I still can’t get over the disconnect between digital and physical stores with a digital store if you for one moment, let in any outside developers at a near free price you forfeit control over your own store, probably explains why Sony and Nintendo keep it closed and charge big bucks to be let in. Be careful, Apple or anyone creating any new ecosystems with hardware and software in the future because in the New World in time, you’ll be expected to provide the infrastructure for free (EU style) if you have any type of success.
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Amazon denies it had plans to be clear about consumer tariff costs
anonymouse said:mikethemartian said:
Bezos will cave.anonymouse said:So, did Bezos finally grow a pair or will he step in and scuttle this plan? If he's grown a pair, maybe he'll decide it's time to restore WAPO to being an actually newspaper. If not, he should sell it.
It's funny and disgusting at the same time that the "White House" considers it a "hostile and political" act to tell the American public the truth about Trump's tariffs.
A safe, and correct, prediction it seems. How did such a weenie ever build a company like Amazon?
Spineless Jeff and his yes men lawyers probably decided to wait until Amazon is taken to court and ordered to do so or they are going to wait until their main competition Costco? shows a line item on their bills to the customer, ultimately big ticket consumer items like cars, trucks, furniture, stoves, refrigerators, big screen televisions etc hiding the cost won't fly for long irrespective of what the White House wants, the retailer isn't going to take the blame at ground zero....
And at the end of the day the customer is going to ask for a itemize bill Ha.Ha.... -
Arms race: Apple's waiting for robotics for US iPhone assembly, says Commerce Secretary
dewme said:
You are pretty much correct. None of the top 10 industrial robot manufacturers are based in the United States. Some of them may have US subsidiaries but Germany, Switzerland, and Japan currently dominate the market. Fortunately, the US is stronger in the industrial automation and process control markets with three US based companies in the top 10.anonymouse said:Unfortunately, all the robot arms — as well as legs, heads and torsos — will be subject to tariffs.
I have heard the arguments that automation will increase the number of higher paying jobs versus factory worker jobs. I have seen this to be true over the course of my career. However, it’s never going to be a one for one replacement, not even close.The other effect I have also seen play out personally is that the demand for the workers needed to fill the far from 1:1 replacement jobs have an under supply of US based candidates. The first reaction to this deficit involves hiring more non-US based workers. The second thing that happens is companies who jumped on the outsourcing bandwagon to fill deficits realize that they can also outsource a chunk of their US based workers with outsourced workers.
I suppose the third step is to replace both US based and non-US based workers with automation. I’m not sure how long it will take to go all-in on step three. At some point the huge population of displaced and replaced workers and politicians will likely take action to prevent manufacturing from ending up where it would obviously go if driven by for-profit companies and technologists alone.The combination of AI and Robotics in the year 2100 A.D. oh boy…..
