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chasm said:

IOW, once the self-inflicted trade war is over Apple will go back to being the top dog in the tech world, and indeed weathered this crisis far better than its competitors (exhibit A, Samsung). Although investors should keep a close eye on (and pressure on their Congresspeople) the trade situation with China, in nearly every other possible area of the company, growth is still happening at an astonishing pace -- the increase in services alone almost made up for the drop in iPhone in China, though of course iPhones are more profitable than services in the short term.

focher said:

applejakes said:

Apple only spent $8.2 billion this quarter on buy backs after spending an average of $21 billion the last 3 quarters.  Could they be stockpiling money for a purchase?  If not it was a gross misuse of cash to not throw a huge amount at buy backs this quarter.  Something along the lines of $25+ billion.

Apple has pretty much never used its cash for buybacks. It has issued low yield bonds to fund them.

randominternetperson said:

6502 said:

DAalseth said:

6502 said:

This woman makes $100 of millions, dresses in thousand dollar outfits and has made no material changes to Apple retail since Ron Johnson. And, Apple retail employees still make lousy wages. Remind me how she is deserving of this? She is simply the token woman at Apple.

I'd suggest you look at this page:
https://www.apple.com/ca/leadership/
There's at least five highly placed women at Apple. That's not even counting the thousands of women in lower positions in the management tree.

I never said there aren't women employees at Apple. Angela is the token woman they drag out the most to say "look, we have women in leadership at Apple". She's accomplished nothing of significance at Apple, yet brings in a massive salary and pays retail employees crap. The only other one they drag out is Lisa Jackson who says the same thing every time on how environmentally friendly their products are. Yeah, we get it. And wow, Apple has a female head of HR; I've rarely seen a company that doesn't have a female head of HR.

Did you even read the flippin' article?  https://www.voguebusiness.com/companies/angela-ahrendts-apple-retail-strategy

normm said:

 And we should be fixing problems we have with China, not starting a war (trade or otherwise).