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Apple Becomes The First US Trillion Dollar Company

Damn, this means they have a lot of employees & a lot of employees meaning they have a high payroll. I'm sure our government will cut their taxes some more to ease their payroll burden so they can survive. Anything else would just be punishing their success & thats just unamerican :|
 
SWEET said:
thats not liquid cash tho right
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apple has close to $300bill in cash reserves.

thing is...apple made their money by making a product and pushing how cool it is to have it and then slowed down the performance and blamed battery issues but it was too late because niggas already bought the new phone.

that on top of controlling the apps it puts out to make sure they get a cut.

that on top of the tax subsidies they get and the illegal state aid they got from ireland........


i know nothing....and wont say nothing ..

because niggas say i be hatin
 
that on top of paying $500 in taxes to every million and even that went down to $50 per million after a while.

but imma shut up
 
i wonder which hip-hop mogul is going to come out with their own phone first. That would be dope to see a phone with preinstalled apps from black companies like Tidal and whatever future black developer.
 
Shotta said:
i wonder which hip-hop mogul is going to come out with their own phone first. That would be dope to see a phone with preinstalled apps from black companies like Tidal and whatever future black developer.
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would you support it?
 
bout time, they been robbing ya'll blind for the last decade

what happens when the pirates ship gets too heavy tho?
 
DOS_patos said:
why so?

hes microsoft.

and if my memory serves me right....i think they stole the idea from apple or visa versa.

the a prompt vs the c prompt
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He invested $150M in Apple in '97. Insiders said that Apple was days away from shutting down completely when he did that. Microsoft was already fighting anti-trust suits and didn't need their one competitor to close shop; that would have made them a complete monopoly over the personal computer OS market. So, they stuck a deal: Apple drops their lawsuits against M$, make IE the default standard browser for MacOS, and re-install Steve Jobs as CEO and in return Microsoft will continue to develop MS Office for the Mac and other software... oh, and here's $150M to keep you afloat.
 
konceptjones said:
He invested $150M in Apple in '97. Insiders said that Apple was days away from shutting down completely when he did that. Microsoft was already fighting anti-trust suits and didn't need their one competitor to close shop; that would have made them a complete monopoly over the personal computer OS market. So, they stuck a deal: Apple drops their lawsuits against M$, make IE the default standard browser for MacOS, and re-install Steve Jobs as CEO and in return Microsoft will continue to develop MS Office for the Mac and other software... oh, and here's $150M to keep you afloat.
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Makes sense for them to do that. Damn near masterful.
 
DOS_patos said:
apple has close to $300bill in cash reserves.

thing is...apple made their money by making a product and pushing how cool it is to have it and then slowed down the performance and blamed battery issues but it was too late because niggas already bought the new phone.

that on top of controlling the apps it puts out to make sure they get a cut.

that on top of the tax subsidies they get and the illegal state aid they got from ireland........


i know nothing....and wont say nothing ..

because niggas say i be hatin
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Shit and NC
 
Sion said:
Nah not quite. He loaned Steve Jobs $11 million and Jobs paid him back not to long after.

Microsoft btw only makes up for 7% of Gates fortune. The rest of his fortune is all in successful stock investments through his holding company called Cascade Investments LLC. It is run by Michael Larson who may be one of the greatest value investors of all time but no one really knows him because he keeps a low profile. Gates is invested in everything from railroads, coca cola bottling plants, real estate, construction, hotels, steel, alcohol, recycling, meat and food processing companies, carpeting, power companies, and car dealerships (Auto Nation). It's quite impressive.

You can go to Apple's proxy statements or morningstar and find out who are the top 20 biggest shareholders both in terms of corporations or investment funds.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/ste...what-happened-when-microsoft-saved-apple.html

"... "Apple was in very serious trouble," said Jobs. "And what was really clear was that if the game was a zero-sum game where for Apple to win, Microsoft had to lose, then Apple was going to lose.

"There were too many people at Apple and in the Apple ecosystem playing [that] game," he explained. "And it was clear that you didn't have to play that game, because Apple wasn't going to beat Microsoft.

"Apple didn't have to beat Microsoft. Apple had to remember who Apple was because they'd forgotten who Apple was."

To stay alive, Jobs had to step outside of the competitive mindset.

"To me, it was pretty essential to break that paradigm," says Jobs. "And it was also important that, you know, Microsoft was the biggest software developer outside of Apple developing for the Mac. So it was just crazy what was happening at that time. And Apple was very weak and so I called Bill up and we tried to patch things up."

The two founders did just that, though their partnership met with resistance. When Jobs announced the $150 million investment at the Macworld Boston conference in 1997, the audience booed Gates' appearance via satellite.

For Microsoft, the investment meant propping up one of its greatest competitors, but it was also a new business opportunity..."
 
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