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Apple Sells $14 Billion in Bonds to Take Advantage of Low Interest Rates
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Can you expand on this please? Do you mean you regard the stock as being currently undervalued?
Well, imagine you wanna get a kid - will you „own“ a woman or man - or you wanna just get the final product.
Same is true in general - if you want to produce great products you should own everything involved.
Why is it not the case - because of globalization and corporate greed.
The best proof is apple themselves - why do you think apple is making their own silicon? And even plans to make their own Modem - although Qualcomm has brilliant tech - BECAUSE!
When i was young - it was normal that companies had their production lines in their country and owning it - i have worked in one before it got closed - so it might be normal today not owning it - but that doesn’t mean that there is a generell truth behind the not owning paradigm.
Apple does not MAKE their own silicon. Apple making their own cars would be be similar to Apple spending tens/hundreds of billions of dollars to set up their own state of the art world-class silicon foundry just to manufacture the custom silicon Apple DESIGNS. A huge outlay of capital, and a constant loss as foundries need to be operating 24/7 to be viable, and that's not even considering the R&D costs developing new processes.
If you feel differently, please write Tim Cook and Manfred Harrer and let them know they're making a huge mistake.
Its kind of a bad behaviour your last sentence as you know
How does a car production work - you don’t invent the foundry as the machines are made by other companies but you customize them to your needs and optimize the production process.
To make it short - as i always say i highly doubt a car under cook - this does not mean there will be no car - but cook is too wise (i don’t like him) to know building and selling a car is a complete other thing than electronics.
I mean VW the great great company built an e-car on existing foundry and failed massively. They have now the 2nd pure ev project running because the IDX platform is **** too - and they recognized they need something even better HW and SW integrated.
They will build an entirely knew production for that.
And you really say - apple goes to Hyundai and builds an apple product on their existing platform or even worse machinery.
If that’s really happening and it should be a consumer product - YES imho its a failure
But anyways - we know nothing what they are doing and what are their thoughts behind. For me cook just wants to have a car to position it like Apple TV against the competitor in the mobility race
can some one dumb down this for me? Apple is borrowing money with interest to give it back to their shareholders?