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Apple Shareholder Meeting Notes: Directors Reelected, No Change in Jobs' Plans

chadley_chad said:
Never mind the f*!!!!g singing, they should concentrate on bringing some products to Market! Apple may be worth billions but logic dictates that if they had a current desktop and monitor offering, they might make more! Build it and they will buy!

To be honest, I'm fed up with Apple ignoring it's existing base of customers and today, after years of mac use, priced up a Dell XPS! Shock horror yes, but £1500 buys a 2.66 i7 quad core, 6gb, 1TB HDD, TWIN 512MB NVIDIA and a 24" display. Now I of all people know the benefits of mac os and iLife etc etc ... But even those caveats don't make for what I'm sure would be at least a £500 premium ... That's if Apple could ever squeeze all that in an iMac ... and would!

Let's wait and see if how Apple can surprise us SOON (I doubt unfortunately!)
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Have you ever used an XPS with Vista? If you had, you'd gladly go back to OSX ... it's not only about the specs.

One guy in my lab has an XPS notebook and a just bought a MacBook. The MB starts faster from totally off than his does resuming windows.

We found that I can ... swipe into the building, walk to my office, take off my jacket, take teh MB out of the bag and start using a Word document faster than he can resume Vista. LOL.

You get what you pay for ... you can keep the extra hardware and I'll take the nicer integrated package (hardware/software).
 
sam10685 said:
90 trillion cash. They are going to fix our economic recession soon.
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Well that explains why we haven't seen any new hardware lately. Why mess with engineering expense when you have money like that and people keep buying?

Apple is still doing great even with lengthening out their product cycles. There is no reason to rush things to market when you are in their position. I am not saying that it is the right thing to do, but if you are trying to make money during an economic downturn that is one way to do it.
 
Abercrombieboy said:
Well that explains why we haven't seen any new hardware lately. Why mess with engineering expense when you have money like that and people keep buying?
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Its almost $30 billion, Apple can earn $2 billion interest per year if they want to. Net income for 2008 was $4.8 billion, is this with or without there interest?

Seems like a good amount of cash to spend some time for.
 
macshill said:
Only CNBC shocked at Apple's media rules
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10172232-37.html


This reader's comment reflects my personal views:

"It's a shame that more people don't see through Apple and realize how much of a controlling company they are in all aspects of their operations. The masses are too busy dumping on Microsoft, while ignoring Apple's underhanded tactics."
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Steve Jobs reminds me of Jim Jones and the fanatic Apple fan boys remind me of the cult followers that drank the cool aid.
 
heh I thought all the fanboys here would be bashing me.

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I should put "Steve Jobs isn't God and Apple isn't Heaven." in my siggy. ;)
 
jaw04005 said:
They have to be reelected every year. It's a formal procedure.

"Attendees also participated in a singing of 'Happy Birthday' to the absent CEO, who celebrated his 54th birthday yesterday."

Anyone else laugh out loud? :D
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You bet I did. I could only imagine people being forcefully happy while signing an oversized birthday card being passed cubicle to cubicle.
 
macshill said:
heh I thought all the fanboys here would be bashing me.

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I should put "Steve Jobs isn't God and Apple isn't Heaven." in my siggy. ;)
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This is hilarious sad part is its true! all the pathetic fan boys with the little Apple altars at home. :D:D:D:D I guess when he dies most of them will need to take bereavement leave from work for at least a week or two. I wonder how many fan boys will camp out around his house holding votive candles during his last days.
 
macshill said:
Only CNBC shocked at Apple's media rules
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10172232-37.html


This reader's comment reflects my personal views:

"It's a shame that more people don't see through Apple and realize how much of a controlling company they are in all aspects of their operations. The masses are too busy dumping on Microsoft, while ignoring Apple's underhanded tactics."
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Please explain where in the article "underhanded tactics" are described.
 
acidfast7 said:
Have you ever used an XPS with Vista? If you had, you'd gladly go back to OSX ... it's not only about the specs.

One guy in my lab has an XPS notebook and a just bought a MacBook. The MB starts faster from totally off than his does resuming windows.

We found that I can ... swipe into the building, walk to my office, take off my jacket, take teh MB out of the bag and start using a Word document faster than he can resume Vista. LOL.

You get what you pay for ... you can keep the extra hardware and I'll take the nicer integrated package (hardware/software).
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I have an XPS notebook running 64bit Vista and besides playing Crysis, Bioshock, Sins of a Solar Empire, and Fallout 3, I use it to surf sites that I can't with my Powerbook G4. The biometric finger print reader's kewl... I don't have to worry about memorizing passwords. Only reason why I got it was because I got 2.9k USD off from a buddy of mine from the company who has the hookups. ;) but other than that, I agree w/ ya 99.9% *just sayin'*
 
mutuz said:
I wonder if the timing of his comeback is random, or if a revision of a product or two may be realistic in this period. Snow Leopard? iPhone 4G? :)
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I'm sure it is not random. I don't know why he or anyone else could have put such a strict time table on his recovery. Who knows when he will be feeling better. But "5 months" picked as an arbitrary number seems kinda strange.

I wouldn't call it a publicity stunt at all (like another poster called it), but he just wants to be back to announce the new iPhone or Snow Leopard. Seems like a reasonable goal to me.
 
otis123 said:
the singing of happy birthday to a person who even isnt there is a little weird.
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Yes, that is. That to me sounds like a publicity stunt. Unless they had him on iChat or speakerphone or something.
 
Bonte said:
Its almost $30 billion, Apple can earn $2 billion interest per year if they want to. Net income for 2008 was $4.8 billion, is this with or without there interest?

Seems like a good amount of cash to spend some time for.
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I'm unsure where they are getting a 6% return on their cash in this ****ty economy. I actually do wonder what they are doing with it. Is it stashed under Steve's mattress?

macshill said:
Only CNBC shocked at Apple's media rules
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10172232-37.html


This reader's comment reflects my personal views:

"It's a shame that more people don't see through Apple and realize how much of a controlling company they are in all aspects of their operations. The masses are too busy dumping on Microsoft, while ignoring Apple's underhanded tactics."
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Wrong board for this one. Round these parts, the kool aid flows out of the faucets.
 
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