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Apple Predicted to Become Trillion Dollar Company Within 12 Months
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Why should they pay more than they're legally required to? Apple alone already pays a significant portion of the overall tax paid by corporations.
Which is a pretty nutty thing to say since none of Apple's portables use spinning rust anymore. Unless you were joking. If so, I apologize.
Yeah I was joking. I thought my proposition would be so far out that it could only be seen as a joke
Don't forget it was MicroSoft who bailed out Apple back then, and kept them from insolvency with a timely loan.
Quite a magnanimous gesture from Bill. People losing their job is not a laughing matter.
What about the families who 401k and other investments rely on companies like Apple doing well in the stock market?
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Bypassing the 'laugh' part about people losing their jobs, you might want to search who saved apple from bankruptcy back then ?
What’s unethical about not stupidly (and unnecessary) giving your money to the government?
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Why?
Hearing impaired accessibility.
Autism.
Healthcare collaborations & HealthKit.
Renewable energy.
Education & iTunes U.
Shall I go on? I'd say those things help improve the world.
Oh wait. Tim Crook...*grumblegrumble*...offshore accounts...*grumblegrumble*...Ireland...*grumblegrumble*...innovation...*grumblegrumble*... greedy...*grumblegrumble*...corporate meanies...*grumblegrumble*... now we're back in the comfort zone.
Self-fulfilling prophecies anyone? People read articles like that one, buy more stock and inflate the price.
Yeah... only if you can afford said better place
I'm 25 and have hundreds of times more in index funds right now. I'm testing the waters on what it's like buying stocks and working on finding more companies that seem like good investments. The one share of TSLA was far outperforming the index funds up until two weeks ago, and I expect it'll resume outperforming within a month.
As I have more at my disposal, I'll become less risk adverse and begin putting more into stocks and less elsewhere. I asked myself how much money I felt comfortable knowing it could vanish in a moment if things go all wrong, and I arrived at $500. About the value of one share of TSLA and one share of AAPL.
No. They just take advantage of the fact people think they need the products and are willing to be ripped off.
Great post! Sorry to hear about your dad. May he may he rest in peace.
I bought my mom and dad iPhones and share pics and vids of their grandchildren all the time and they can see all those precious moments since I devices are so easy to use. That make them happy. My 2yrs old daughter ft her cousins, grandparents, aunties, on her own and have regular conversations with the family through ft, etc. My wife and I use iPads as baby monitors when our kid sleep and enjoyed HD quality with long battery life instead of those ugly and expensive baby monitors.
So yeah, Apple devices made our lives better and closer to each other as well.
Haters gonna hate.
Sure you can dink around with a few shares of something sexy here and there if you find that to be entertaining, but you're in a really good place to keep taking advantage of index funds. The risk-return ratio is much better than any individual stocks you can pick with a dart board. I only wish ETFs were around when I was 25.
http://store.asus.com/us/item/201610AM190000002
You think that that iMac Pro is that high!?!? The Windows PC from ASUS in this link is $4k and doesn't come with a monitor and only has an Quad-Core Intel Core i7 at 4GHz.
So let's be real.
Wont take long to get to a trillion when Macs cost the same price as a used car - and people are willing to pay it.
Apple's stock price has declined around 9 percent from its all-time high of $156.10 in May, but Wall Street analyst Brian White believes the recent sell-off represents "yet another buying opportunity" as investors turn their focus to the so-called "iPhone 8" rumored to launch this fall.
Well with making more crappy products and even more crappy software, more chinese children at work and using the "amsterdam route" to dodging taxes, they will proberly make it!
Trying to get a mental idea what a trillion looks like in my imagination (sorry) can someone make it easy for me, apples, bananas, iPods, everyday life , thanks.
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I would argue if the new iPhone X costs from 1000 Apple will be pricing itself out of the market, that's nudging towards the cost of this new RED hyper phone that's coming out and that IS going to be a premium device, with a true 3D screen and probably some sort of revolutionary camera knowing RED, yet it costs from around 1200 dollars. And Apple with its OLED screen and no bezels will be competing against it...
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Being tight and penny pinching I find gets more extreme the richer you are..
Well said. Ignore the cynics, can't avoid them. Apple products are simply a joy to ease and they do make communication so much easier. That's not to say there aren't other products who can perform similar functions, but few companies care about the ultimate experience the way Apple does.
I'll give you that on the communications side. The iPad is the best tablet, very easy to use, my mum loves hers, I got her 2 over the years as presents. And I use my iPad Pro almost exclusively now. I like Apple products but dislike some of Apples practices..
I'm not sure what the fuss is anyway though as Apple is number 3 or 4 in the world for value I thought? Can't remember the other 2 but I would think they will be worth a trillion dollars first?
I mean I now fully intend to upgrade to the 10.5" Pro and maybe the Apple keyboard, that's how much I use it.