davgreg

There are no tears in my household for data miners, online advertising companies and anything related to Facebook.

Long before Tim Cook took over as CEO he earned a place in Apple’s history.

When he arrived Apple had the highest cost supply chain and overhead in the industry and he quickly moved to rationalize and streamline and get things in order. The financial impact on Apple’s bottom line and profitability cannot be underestimated. 

During Steve Jobs’ medical absence - which was considerable- he proved himself more than capable of the job of CEO. Jobs spent considerable time in Memphis (just off of East Parkway) awaiting a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital and recovering afterward.

That Jobs selected him and told him to run the place as he saw fit speaks to the confidence he had in Cook. None of us would likely have made the same decisions as Cook, but one cannot argue that the company has continued to grow and flourish during his time as CEO.

As a shareholder, Apple has made me an awful lot of money - I bought my first shares just about the time of the OS X Public Beta and those shares have appreciated greatly and split 3 times since then. I stopped buying somewhere in the run up above $300 a share before the big split as I was worried that it was overvalued. A significant part of my retirement money will be because of that Apple stock.

I love my current iPad Pro but would gladly upgrade if there is enough there to justify the expense.

It would be nice if the next iPad Pro fits the current Keyboard which is nice but a little pricey.

Eastern District is the Rocket Docket for patent trolls, right? So the Western District is not in on the grift?

I will keep my Bowers and Wilkins.