Wow thanks for the Info!
I'm going to go buy an IPOD shuffle and help out the cause dude
Gosh!
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:18:55 -0600, John/Slackonomics
<slack@slackonomics.com> wrote:
quoted 34 lines On Feb 12, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Andrew Hime wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Andrew Hime wrote:
>
> > Walkman wrote:
> >> As far as I know microsoft owns lots of apple shares:]
> >> So apple IS Microsoft.
> >
> > non-voting
>
> Actually they own nothing of Apple. In a nutshell, when Steve Jobs
> came back to Apple in the late 90s he knew that getting Microsoft
> onboard to deliver new products for the Macintosh and continued support
> was pivotal to the success of Apple. As a show of good faith, Apple
> replaced Netscape with Internet Explorer as the default browser on all
> Macs (Apple's superior Safari replaced it a few years ago). Apple also
> sold 150 million non-voting shares to Microsoft in return for several
> years worth of continued development of Microsoft Office for Mac (it
> should be noted that Apple had 1.2 billion in cash reserves at the
> time, so the 150 million was merely symbolic). Apple has since bought
> back all shares from Microsoft. Apple has several billion dollars in
> *cash* reserves and is 100% debt-free. They had the most profitable
> quarter in their entire history last quarter. It's safe to say Apple
> is doing better than ever. :)
>
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