Latko

Mike Wuerthele said:

Latko said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

Latko said:

Just look how much Jobs invested back versus how much cash has piled up since he died.
Steve was interested in product improvement, not in real-estate, luxury, or extreme wealth as such.
He warned against greedyness, and almost anything the current leadership prioritizes.
Pioneers shouldn’t be compared to milkers anyway

The data doesn't support your supposition.

Then please explain where those hundreds of billions come from, and what percentage of earnings became invested back over the years.
The problem is your micro-economic approach to macro-economic issues

We've discussed this ad infinitum over the last five years.  Your problem is your own micro-economic approach, meaning Apple not directly appealing to you anymore as a customer in a shift in focus to a different product line, to a macro-economic issue. On a per-unit basis, Apple is making no more money as a percent of what it costs the company to make under Cook, than it did under Jobs. The difference is the stunningly higher user base that the company accumulated.

I understand where you're coming from, but you're conflating several different issues.

My approach is macro.
I’m not looking at cost prices or margins, which is impossible because the prices they get at their volume are their best kept secrets.
I point at the immense cash reserves accumulated AFTER SJ and where that got directed to.
You seem unable to clarify those metrics from your micro-economical analysis and you avoid the questions I asked about them
Whether or not their portfolio is appealing is an entirely different subject - that has nothing to do with wealth attribution.
It’s not me who is conflating that.

Just look how much Jobs invested back versus how much cash has piled up since he died.
Steve was interested in product improvement, not in real-estate, luxury, or extreme wealth as such.
He warned against greedyness, and almost anything the current leadership prioritizes.
Pioneers shouldn’t be compared to milkers anyway

Still, this product feels compromised - either or not to maintain the other, more compromised/aging MacBook models.
Processor/port/RAM/HD wise. What about the TouchBar ? Has Apple decided that NOT to be an across-platform standard ?
What’s the policy here ?
Expandability...service...pfff. The whole planet now sees Apple is broadening its 1 year service window and busy defining repair programs as its quality standards appear to fall. This is not gratitude, it is a principal omission that the current leadership isn’t able or interested to address. I am not prepared to pay the premium price for a 2016-spec product designed not to compromise MBPro 2018
I am prepared to buy a $15 BT tactile keyboard substitute for daily use, which should have Apple ashamed as it denies the whole concept of mobility. My 2015 Air being the best mobile solution to date, is just insane. 

Allowing Apple Board to define its measures of productivity, trends, and success itself. No news at all isn’t the solution to fake news, Tim.

wlym said:

I was sure I read that OLED was supposed to be better for battery life because the black pixels were really off and not consuming power as opposed to just masking an always-on backlight.

Theoretically, someone might persuade those geniuses in Cupertino to introduce iOS-wide Dark Mode.
Theoretically, that is.