Apple Profits, Mac Sales, and Fun with Apple’s Cash Hoard – ACM 396
Apple turned in a record December quarter this week, and Bryan and Jeff look at the numbers. They also look at this one weird trick Apple did to goose Mac sales—the company released a new Mac. And for grins, they discuss some of the things Apple could do with the astounding $246 billion in cash the company has squirreled away.
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Show Notes
Sources referenced in this episode:
- Apple Beats Guidance with Record Revenue of $78.4B and EPS of $3.36 [Update]
- Apple Cash Hoard Tops $246 Billion, Enough to Buy 4.9 Billion Amazon Echo Dots
- The Partridge Family - The Complete Series (on DVD) - Amazon
- Jeff's Twitter
- Bryan's Twitter
- Jeff's blog: Fresh Brewed Tales
- Bryan's blog: Geek Tells
meant AAPL of course
you said “I’ll accept that” just before the ordering event, from your pronunciation it may have been interpreted as “Alexa that” – but the assumption would be Alexa remembered earlier words
egalitarian – misused for Socialist/Marxist – when proposing to distribute APPL cash hoard to everyone
whereas if it were distributed to shareholders it would make a nice $ 46 per share special dividend
that would serve to shore up a lot of retirement plans that hold APPL
it would also reward me for holding shares since 2001 by increasing my total profit by another 25%