cnocbui

mike1 said:

Shouldn't every business squeeze every supplier, every time?
TSMC and Largan are probably excluded because they've already reached agreements and signed deals.

Apple has long worked to diversify their supplier base. This would result in few orders for legacy suppliers and is not necessarily indicative of fewer phones being sold.

What if that squeezing results in the suppliers cutting things like worker safety and pay?  Is that OK?  Do you think Apple needs to squeeze the little guys because they are hard up and their margins are wafer thin?

lkrupp said:

igorsky said:

Wait so Apple is really doomed this time? I'm just amazed that this company is still in business after all the times it's been doomed.

Who gets all that cash when Apple goes bankrupt tomorrow?

The taxman.

nolamacguy said:

cnocbui said:

Oh that makes such a difference, knowing she's actually only overpaid $49.8 M a year instead of $99.8 M.

by which metrics do you define her job performance? have you compared your meticulously collected data to those which Cook and the board use? why not? oh, right, because you haven't the faintest idea what those are, because you're just some random guy in Ireland and not her boss. got it. 

keep on hating.

Angela Merkel 'earns' $1.5 M a year, Angela Ahrendts is 'paid' $50 M.

Keep on riding into every thread like a white-knight, perched upon your horse 'outrageous indignation', slaying all the trolls and dragons.

sog35 said:

cnocbui said:

The scheduling Oberführer will reserve a non-peak time period and will issue a command where upon it toddles off to a high amp charging station and gets itself hooked up and filled with 100% renewable energy courtesy of the national grid and the nearest coal/gas fueled power station.

has anyone done a study if electric cars are actually more enviromentally friendly? Talking about generating electricity and producing batteries.

Yes, but people prefer Unicorns to facts.

A diesel engine is about 35-42% efficient in turning fuel into energy.  Coal/gas fired power stations are 32-42% efficient in turning fuel into energy, so electric vehicles powered from the national grid in any country that isn't largely geothermal or nuclear, are no cleaner or greener than a diesel powered car.

OK, that isn't probably entirely true as diesels spew out carcinogens while less efficient petrol engined cars spew out mostly water.  Coal-fired power stations spew out carcinogenic dioxins so, ride a bike or walk, I guess.

Diesels are very popular in Europe, thanks to the CO2 global warming nut-jobs, so no one will be left alive to enjoy the nice warm weather because they will all have died of cancer before it arrives.

The Medieval warm period was the greatest time Europe has ever known:  food was plentiful, (which is how all the cathedrals could be funded and built) the wine flowed, even in Scotland, and a damn fine time was had by all, for the most part.

ericthehalfbee said:

sog35 said:

So this is the type of amazing insight we are paying Angela Ahredts $100 million a year for.

worth it.

Stop lying. She made around $74 million in 2014 (mostly with stock options) and then around $25 million last year (again, mostly from stock options). So she's made $100 million in TWO years, and this is going to drop sharply for 2016. She hardly makes $100 million a year.

Oh that makes such a difference, knowing she's actually only overpaid $49.8 M a year instead of $99.8 M.