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RE: Apple Tops Harris Reputation Poll with Record Score
Only indirectly, ibuck—this poll is about reputation, which is all about perception.

RE: Apple’s Stock Sets New Closing High of $502.60
I had forgotten that MSFT used to be worth something! I edited the story accordingly. Thanks, gents.

RE: Analyst: Paying a Dividend Makes Sense for Apple
Apple's board of directors and offers have [url=http://business-law.lawyers.com/small-business-law/Fiduciary-Responsibilities-Corporations.html]various fiduciary responsibilities[/url] to the company's shareholders. Remember that the shareholders own the company. Additionally, the board and all of Apple's current officers…

RE: Analyst: Paying a Dividend Makes Sense for Apple
If a fund already has, say, 10% of its money (a figure I am pulling out of thin air), doubling the number of shares outstanding to halve the price won't change anything. They'll have twice the shares at half the price and it will still be 10% of their total assets, the theoretical limit of how much of their fund can be in one basked at our…

RE: Analyst: Paying a Dividend Makes Sense for Apple
Lee, a split won't do anything to address its cash hoard. It's something the company could do, of course, but it won't have any effect on its cash or reduce pressure from shareholders to pay a dividend.

RE: Analyst: Paying a Dividend Makes Sense for Apple
And this is why: As Apple's cash hoard grows, the propensity of its shareholders to give management free reign over that cash is shifting and will continue to shift. While some argued for a dividend more than $70 billion ago, the majority of shareholders were quite content to let the company keep doing its thing. I was certainly among them.…

RE: Analyst: Paying a Dividend Makes Sense for Apple
I believe it will. This year, at that.

RE: Canaccord: Apple Claims 80% of Q4 Mobile Handset Profits
Yeah, the problem is that there are lots of different ways for different people to look at different aspects of the industry. Hardware share, OS share, number of apps, number of app downloads, percentage of app downloads that are free vs. paid, smartphones, feature phones, ad views, ad taps, ad sales, prepaid, post-paid, new subscribers, churn...…

RE: Canaccord: Apple Claims 80% of Q4 Mobile Handset Profits
Paul, that's 8.1% of the mobile handset market, which includes all mobile phones. The other market share numbers that also apply to iPhone is the subset of the handset market known as smartphones, where Apple's share is far higher.

RE: Apple’s PC Phone Support Satisfaction Leads Dell, HP
Agreed, Geo.

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