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by adventured 2440 days ago
Apple is printing massive profits, however they're not quite $20 billion per quarter massive.

Their last quarter was $10b in net income, and $11.5b in operating income. The last four quarters were $55b in net income, $64b in operating income.

Apple's current cash plan is to draw it down to net zero, according to Cook, through returning cash to shareholders. I would expect them to continue to be extremely conservative on investments and acquisitions as per their historical norm. Their net cash is down to about $100 billion now, and total cash was $210b as of the third quarter results (likely under $200b now).

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Would be nice if they could throw some change at a not-terrible keyboard design.