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chasm said:

22july2013 said:

If Google filters out any particular political view, are they subject to treat such actions as political support expenses?

There's no actual evidence that Google "filters" any particular political view. There are propaganda claims of this (about Google, about FB, about Twitter, et al), but no actual evidence that I'm aware of. What Google (and FB and Twitter) do do is block people who violate their rules/TOS repeatedly. Well, with one exception ...

Disagree.  Last year at this time any article that pointed towards collusion being fake news was buried deep in search results.  Also, that pesky little video of the meeting they had after Trump was elected showed the bias.  At the end of the day people program those search functions, are they above letting their personal feelings seep into the programming?  Hard to say but I lean no based on the previous two years.

frantisek said:

I think Apple skip car and go directly to flying saucer or iUFO :-)

A Ben Kenobi style landspeeder is all I ask for.

gatorguy said:

applejakes said:

tyler82 said:

The tax cut is likely responsible for the dip in sales. working and middle class people didn’t receive refunds or saw them reduced. 

Assume this is sarcasm because it certainly isn't true.

They have seen refunds reduced or *Surprise!* they owe the IRS more than expected. My daughter was one of those who traditionally rec'd a refund but this year owed it instead. It wasn't much that was owed but when you expect and plan for a refund it does change spending habits in the short term. 
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/6/18214039/irs-tax-refund-withholding-trump

She probably owed because her paycheck went up.  That was the case for 99% that got a smaller refund than usual.  They also did away with some deductions.  

Vox is known as an extremely liberal site so I'm not clicking on that.  They can't be trusted as we've seen with the collusion hoax.

tyler82 said:

The tax cut is likely responsible for the dip in sales. working and middle class people didn’t receive refunds or saw them reduced. 

Assume this is sarcasm because it certainly isn't true.

carnegie said:

applejakes said:

$24 billion spent on share buyback.  I've gotta believe that retired around 140 million shares.

Apple's outstanding share count dropped by about 123 million from the end of the previous quarter. So it bought back at least that many shares.

Thanks.

Just a measly 2.5% of the company.  The following quarters should buy 2% or more as long as the price stays low.