“Last week, Apple reported that it now has reserves of $76 billion in cash, short term securities and long term securities,” Paul Boutin reports of Technology Review. “As many wags pointed out, that’s more than the cash-strapped U.S. government has left.”
“Never mind buying Hulu or some other company,” Boutin writes. “Here are five ways could Apple actually invent the future, and thwart other makers of phones, tablets, and computers.”
Five ways Apple should spend its $76 billion:
5. Color screens that work in the sunshine
4. Wireless network quality
3. Hands-free interfaces
2. Education
1. Reinvent the battery
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Why in these discussions about what Apple can do with their hoards of cash do I never hear anyone discuss charity? Apple has taken charge in being the most environmentally friendy of all the tech companies after greenpeace forced Apple to take accountability. That was an amazing step. Why can’t Apple donate a billion dollars towards student grants….oh they could start a worldwide charity like MS. I challenge Apple to find creative ways to take some of that money and give back to our society. Anyone with me or all we all just about the capitalism??
Microsoft did not start any charity. Bill Gates takes all the credit for that. It’s his money.
Apple does not make most of it’s money from your society, no matter where you live.
The money belongs to Apple’s shareholders. Apple better not piss away my money at your whim. I’ll sue them big time if they do.
Oh, and Greenpeace didn’t force anyone. Apple has always been the greenest electronics manufacturer. Greenpeace was just looking for donations when they targeted Apple.
Buy DELL, SIDAGTHBTTS. a large msgr of windoze crap will disappear, and then HP, Acer, Lenovo, etc will choke on picking up low profit margin mfg capacity, and then Apple will further dominate and crush them all!
Bwa-ha-ha-ha!
(Ok, Ok… buy monkey boy some hair plugs and bank the rest)
Hire a shitload of hitmen and take out all of those worthless scumbags in D.C. They aren’t doing jack anyway.
One word: Unicorns.
That might be as good of a way of spending the money as any suggested in the worthless article above.
Buy 48 million FloBees and set up iBarber shops around the world.
I was really in to the wet dream of buying Adobe, but changed my mind when I realized that that will mean Auto Save will be enabled in Photoshop…which will not happen otherwise.
1. Clone Steve Jobs
2. Pizza party!
3. Build cash haul, buy Microsoft, force Steve Balmer to wear organ grinder’s monkey outfit and dance at media events.
4. Buy own television network. Bring back every unfairly cancelled, popular show from the last ten years.
5. Blow it all on hookers and beer!
——RM
Man… I’ve been saying that if they could make that screen look as good outdoors as indoors, everyone else would be… FUBAR. They already are, but man it would be a critical strike.