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11/11/09
11/11/09
I would expect Apple to use this cash for something more productive than financial holdings once the worldwide economy turns around. If you are a shareholder (and I am), you shouldn't be upset that Apple is sitting on a big pile of cash when financing is hard to come by and short-term financial investments have a large potential upside.
It's not like the CFO put the cash under his bed and refuses to let Apple have it back... #chartoftheday
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Its sitting there now. I'm sure they've got it in some great stuff that I could only dream of having similar returns but its not being used.
$34 billion is a lot. A lot is an understatement. Its the GNP of a small country.
Yes, financing is tough to come by in this economy. What are they going to have to finance for $34 billion though?
Its very, very similar to the money just sitting under Steve's bed. #chartoftheday
11/11/09
11/11/09
During recessions cash is king. Especially now when liquidity is hard to come by, it gives Apple complete freedom on how to run their business.
Agreed that 34B is a lot, but not for a company with the growth like Apple. #chartoftheday
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10/22/09
Why can't they simply enable push for all users the way Yahoo does? #creditscores
10/20/09
Who let the riffraff in? Look, just....just give them one of the leftover hamburgers and tell them to get lost! #creditscores
10/20/09
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Embrace the Goog, come on. :P #creditscores
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10/16/09
10/16/09
That site has to just be a bottomless burn pit for dollars. #googlestock
10/16/09
The one money-maker they do have, though, is advertising. And apparently, it's a whopper. Which makes sense. Google gets tons of money each year from advertisers who enjoy their targeted, intelligent ads. Meanwhile, Google runs other services that boost their name and brand for pennies on the dollar of what they're ads bring in.
Good business isn't about minimizing losses, but maximizing gains. So long as they can keep up their superior ad targeting systems, they can burn through as much money as they have. And frequently do. #googlestock
10/16/09
If MS really did want to get a leg up rather than trying to drive Google into the ground, they'd be attempting to bridge the gap with Google and offering paid for time in their apps/sites - maybe even focus on great products rather than trying to take down your competitors. Then again, that'd be crazy. #googlestock
10/16/09
"By making your biggest products cash losers and your biggest money makers merely integrated into the product"
So they DO make money from their "cash losers" then??
"Essentially if someone like Microsoft actually does kill a free service of Google's they'll almost be doing them a favour."
Then how about their "biggest money makers merely integrated into the product" thing? It got killed too right?
The thing is, if some of Google's popular features die, most likely they're suffering bad rep like Yahoo and it'll severely affect they stock. #googlestock
10/16/09
yeah, but if the website(youtube) itself isn't bringing in any money at all, and they just take a loss on it, how is that good business? Even if other parts of google can pick up the slack for youtube it doesn't change the fact that youtube is a money pit.
just my opinion. I don't know how any of this stuff works haha. #googlestock
10/16/09
Let's say for my day job, I get paid $500/hour. Hey, I can dream can't I? Well, that amounts to $20k a week, or little over a million a year. On that kind of money, I can afford to pay for a nice house, all utilities, college tuition for the kids I probably have and still have some left over to sink into my dream DeLorean (If I'm gonna dream, I'm gonna make it rock). Sinking a few hundred to a thousand a week into that thing is hardly hurting my salary. It's a money pit, but it's one I can afford.
As another real world example, for the longest time, Sony was selling the Playstation 3 at a loss per unit. As in, every time you bought a PlayStation 3, Sony lost money, since it cost more to make them they were charging for it. Yet, they made enough profit on games and peripherals to more than make up for it. Nintendo has banked on this strategy for years, selling cheaper than average systems, and yanking money out of your nose through cheap plastic peripherals.
A single product can take a loss, even consistently, if the revenue streams of the company as a whole make up for it. Even if YouTube is losing money, until it threatens Google's huge ad revenue, it's existence is an asset....like as a place to put ads. ;-) #googlestock
10/17/09
Thus, even at launch every Wii unit sold made Nintendo money. And then Nintendo made even more money from all the games and addons.
10/17/09
The point is to not view any one product as an isolated revenue stream that must sustain itself. #googlestock
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06/30/09
06/30/09
Maybe Blagojevich is still siphoning off cell signals for his own use.
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If I need a GPS, I have the Garmin eTrex Legend, and Nuvi 360. Sure, it's more gadgets to lug around, but I save hundreds of dollars before I even get to the insane service contracts we have in Canada...
06/18/09
06/19/09
Nah, I don't usually carry a GPS. The phone's on a belt clip, and the iPod shares a front pocket with my DS Lite. :)
06/18/09
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