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Tim Cook and Eddy Cue Receive Combined $94 Million in Apple Stock
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Where are iPhone sales down? They're certainly not down by any sales metrics Apple releases, including China.
iPad sales, while down from start, is still a business any other tablet maker would love to have. iPhone sales up, not down. Apple Watch may or may not be as big a hit, we don't know the numbers or expectations and they said there would be no sales numbers BEFORE it went on sale - and Best Buy went from selling Apple Watches in a few stores to every store based on the early results. New Apple TV due soon.
That's not what I'd call a sinking ship.
If you cover Tim's head and look at his arm, it looks like the arm of a 20-something tough guy. He could take Eddy no problem. 
Money is never enough! The more you have it, the more ways you find to spend it. We, humans, are greedy (most of us)! I just look at myself. Hourly job during high-school was never enough! Better hourly-job during college was never enough. A great first job with a decent salary out of college was never enough. 10 years after college, and this awesome paying job is still not enough.
none of that matters, 200 billion in cash, apple is good for another 20 years.
Now let us just focus on MAC Laptops, iPads and iPhones. Let us just assume there are still niche, still there are plenty of cash coming. Watch, Apple TV and others are side business. Keep the cash, make the products at lower cost (with billion of dollars cash), there is a margin to be made.
Apple is not going to do what PC business do and shoot themselves. Cook is king of cost savings!
Yay news about rich people getting richer!! Let's all celebrate because amassing this amount of cash for one individual will benefit us all in the trickle-down economy. Tell me how they worked their ass off tirelessly to get to this point. Now excuse me while I go order off the dollar menu from a guy behind the counter with a PhD...
Cash out before it sinks entirely. Move on to the next golden parachute. Because we're Apple Management, and you can only dream of having it this good.
It brings me pleasure to see how everyone ignored your comment thus far. The truth is too much for people to handle on this forum. Well done.
And it's their job to get the ship pointed in the right direction.
Cash out before it sinks entirely. Move on to the next golden parachute. Because we're Apple Management, and you can only dream of having it this good.
Yeah apple watch is selling so bad that Best Buy is expanding sales to all its stores
What's suspicious about the timing of the photo? It's a nice photo of both Cook and Cue.
It brings me pleasure to see how everyone ignored your comment thus far. The truth is too much for people to handle on this forum. Well done.
Whats the issue to discuss? Foxconn workers need to all be paid a CEO's wages or something? When they were in the spotlight they got like 3 pay raises in one year. Products are built on the labor of workers. Is that something to be ashamed of? They got paid a laborers wages for doing labor. Let's all get together and feel bad because they aren't buying $5 Mochafrappos every morning while reading snarky forum replies.
Probably legal? Completely legal and ethical - there's nothing about this to feel "icky" about. What's wrong with having performance-based stock issued? Apple met goals as a company so they received shares as a reward. DO you feel bad when someone gets a bonus at work for doing well? Do you feel bad when someone gets an "A" in a class because they worked hard and did well? That's all this is.
This is why I'm for the repeal of the 16th Amendment and for the FairTax.
Also, when you look at your paycheck, who gets paid first?
The government.
There is something unholy about that.
Conversely, the current iPhone is the best selling model of all time and we have no idea how well the Apple Watch has sold, but considering people like Best Buy are pushing forward their plans to sell it, that would suggest there is demand for it. However, I think the demand for it is tied to support for contactless pay (And consequently, apple pay).
Because right now support for Contactless pay in America is laughable, if it's going to take off anywhere it'll be in Europe. I've got two people to purchase a watch after witnessing me using my card on it, it's the "killer app" that needs to have infrastructure in its biggest potential market (The US) to take off, which simply isn't there in America yet.
As for the Apple TV, they either need to do something with it pronto or ditch it, because like you said it's stagnating and losing ground against its competitors. Considering it's a growing market, now sooner than later would help.
Ok, we get the point that you don't like Apples products and sales plans.
Instead of just being negative how about you telling us what your grand plan is to turn Apple in an even bigger behmoth?
Drop OSX and start shipping Windows 10?
You forget to get the world beleaguered in there somewhere.
I mean, for old time's sake....
Apple's dividend is approximately $.50. So Eddie will make 1.4 million per year by just HAVING the stock. Nice little bit of free pocket change.
If by non-existent, you mean having larger annual sales of just iPads than the total revenue of all but 100 or so companies in the Fortune 500, then over 99.99% of all companies (and people) on the planet would love to fit your definition of non-existent. You just gave Apple a massive complement.
I'm far from an Apple apologist or sycophant; there are plenty enough blindly loyal morons on this board already, however, categorizing Apple as a "sinking ship" is laughably foolish. They're in exceptional financial, cultural, and influential shape. For evidence of this fact, check the number of blindly loyal morons posting here daily
Apple's op-ex is in the range or $30B/annum. So even if their sales went to zero, and they didn't cut any expenditures or have any layoffs, the corporation wouldn't run out of money for about 7 years.
But currently, just App store revenues would fund over half of their op-ex (and make Apple bigger than the entire U.S. movie industry), so they would last a lot longer, again, even with zero hardware profits.