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Any idea how much money Apple is holding on to it? How much do they have in the bank? 🏦 🍎
About $50B at present. From https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/cash-on-hand:

Apple cash on hand from 2010 to 2022. Cash on hand can be defined as cash deposits at financial institutions that can immediately be withdrawn at any time, and investments maturing in one year or less that are highly liquid and therefore regarded as cash equivalents and reported with or near cash line items.
  • Apple cash on hand for the quarter ending September 30, 2022 was $48.304B, a 22.89% decline year-over-year.
  • Apple cash on hand for 2022 was $48.304B, a 22.89% decline from 2021.
  • Apple cash on hand for 2021 was $62.639B, a 31.12% decline from 2020.
  • Apple cash on hand for 2020 was $90.943B, a 9.56% decline from 2019.
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It’s more that Apple users are DOOMED to pay high product prices and to only get marginal software improvements.
I don’t get this argument. Don’t buy if you think Apple prices are high for marginal improvements. Apple isn’t putting a gun on people head and forcing them to buy.
Look up the word accountability and self control.
 
I don’t get this argument. Don’t buy if you think Apple prices are high for marginal improvements. Apple isn’t putting a gun on people head and forcing them to buy.
I’m not sure what argument you think I’m making. What I’m saying is that Apple’s success means that their pricing will remain high and that they have little pressure to improve their product quality, which in recent years has been increasingly lacking in the software department.

Don’t worry, I don’t buy if I don’t think it’s worth it.
 
As others have pointed out, it's kind of funny that a 5% decrease YoY is still $30 billion in profit. I'll tell you one thing -- I'd love to own a business where a bad quarter is still $30 billion! :p

Isn’t everything about GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH nowadays? It’s so ridiculous to me like what’s so bad about being steady? As long as u make money
 
you can definitely tell Cook is a supply chain genius. The low inventory amount is pretty nice. apple has great Working Capital management
 
Maybe they can afford to hire some software peeps?
They had one software engineer that was working in Cupertino, California and he is no longer there. Desperation is setting in. :p All jokes aside, the Hardware and Software team need to collaborate and communicate together. Pretty sure everybody called it when Apple introduce Stage Manager on iPad/mac OS.
 
When I read comments that imply, "I could do a better job steering Apple," I wonder how much skin the poster has in the game. How many shares?

I am v-e-r-y long AAPL, and am still pleased with the company's performance. Bravo, Mr. Cook.
 
Challenges: lack of innovation; unreasonable high prices for basically the same device year over year with a different name.
Advantages: country support blocking Chinese competitor at home; fanboys.
 
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In these times, good job Apple. Now let's see Twitter's quarterly... oh wait. he took it private, Enron does not have to post a report on his $44 billion fiasco.
Why do you bring up Twitter in a news article that doesn’t mention it at all?


Can you show on the doll where did Elon hurt you?
 
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