I think is few thousands.
Hmm, it says 5,000 employees disclosed. I know people that were disclosed but not on the team. They were part of helping the team get setup and use Appleâs IT systems. If it is 5,000, thatâd be about $1.5B/yr. There better be an amazing product coming with that kind of R&D spend. It doesnât take 5,000 people to develop a car. It can be done with about 1/10th that.
Cook to appear on Cramerâs show tonight:
Why is Cook so eager to pop up the stock price? Iâve never seen Jobs on Cramerâs show, or for that matter Zuckerberg, even though FB stocks has been in the toilet for months. Focus on products, Tim.
Zuckerberg didnât show up on Cramer yet FB dived even more than Apple though.
Jobs hated investors. He was downright rude during annual shareholder meetings. He didnât even attend quarterly earnings calls. He left it to the COO and CFO. The only one he attended was during the financial crisis to say Apple would not layoff employees.
Cook has been on Cramerâs show before.
Howâs the hostage doing?
When will the CFO be released?
Do you really think Iran is no threat at all?
Do you think Huawei is the only firm that does business with Iran? Do you think arresting a companyâs exec is the best way to address the issue?
You always avoid and deflect.
Huawei literally signed an agreement to buy certain US technology. They agreed they would not sell the technology to Iran. Then they violated that agreement shipping phones with Broadcom and Qualcom components. Iâm sure most companies are smart enough to not do that.
Canada obviously thought it was important enough to cooperate. Thereâs no way they would have done that if it wasnât a serious matter. Canada isnât going to do anything to help Trump.
I thought the public thought it was good when executives are held personally responsible for crimes their company commits?
As far back as 2012(aka, under Obama), we banned wireless carriers from buying Huawei hardware for their networks. Back in 2014 (aka, under Obama), the FBI, CIA, and NSA flagged Huawei as a risk and banned them from receiving US government contracts. This isnât just a Trump trade war thing. Itâs was ongoing before he even took office.
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When you only apply the law selectively that shows there are other motives involved. We almost never arrested company execs for their companiesâ wrongdoings. Just look at the financial meltdown that almost brought down the world economy. The US sued almost every major bank in the world, fined them billions of dollars but didnât bring any criminal charges against their execs.
If you see a cop only targets black drivers but turns a blind eye to white drivers speeding past, you know thereâs something other than ârule of lawâ involved.
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I donât âavoid and deflectâ. I see things as connected parts in a system.
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Do you have proof any other company violated the law or are you just speculating and pulling stuff out of nowhere?
https://ig.ft.com/jailed-bankers/
47 people went to jail for the financial crisis.
Any other fake info you want to pull out of nowhere?
How many of them were persecuted by the US? How many of them from major banks that were fined by US? Wells paid over 2B in fines. Did its CEO or CFO go to jail?
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How do they go to jail without prosecution? They just voluntarily go?
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Thatâs my whole point. Whether the US chooses to prosecute or not is a political decision.
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Health care is a big market, thatâs all good. But from selling iPhone to selling a heart monitor is like pivoting from selling sex to selling broccoli. From something fun to something âgood for youâ. Even in gyms I see at most 15% of the people wearing apple watches, and these are among the most health conscious people. Itâs just not as big a market as selling something fun and addictive.
So you want Apple to be a money face like MSFT or make insanely great products to change the world?
Make insanely great products to seduce the world.
Wearing a heart monitor on their wrists just remind people they are going to die soon.