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Apple’s Stack of Cash Would Soar 32 Times Higher Than the International Space Station

If you stack every single dollar bill in Apple's $97 billion cash reserves, you would reach 6,583 miles into space. That's about 32 times the altitude of the International Space Station. It would look pretty much like this.

The math: 97 billion dollar bills, 0.0043 inches thick each. Total: 6,583 miles.

What's Apple going to do with $97 billion in cash?

During its earnings conference call, Apple confirmed the company is sitting on a treasure chest of US$97.6 billion. This stack of cash is steadily growing, up from $81.6 billion at the end of the September quarter. With all that money in the bank, you can't help but wonder... what's Apple going to with it all?

Rather than sitting idly in the bank, Apple said it's "actively discussing the best use of its cash," which could be a hint it's looking at strategic acquisitions. Neither CEO Tim Cook nor CFO Peter Oppenheimer would comment specifically on any acquisitions or what other plans Apple had for this cash. The only straight answer was that Apple, in the past, has spent its cash wisely and will continue to spend it wisely in the future.

Apple has a long history of quietly acquiring companies and adding their talent to Apple's hardware and software teams. In past few years, the company has acquired mapping company Placebase, 3D-map maker C3 Technologies and online music service LaLa. It recently scooped up voice control software Siri and flash memory maker Anobit.

If Apple does use some of its reserves to acquire new technology, which company will be next? Besides improving its Numbers app, what else could Apple do with its money?

Apple’s Monster Quarter

Apple’s latest quarter was a monster, all right.
Reporting first-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday, Apple rolled out the big numbers once again, its strong financials fueled by record iPhone and iPad sales.
The company posted a profit of $13.06 billion on revenue of $46 billion. Earnings per share were $13.87, far more than the $10.08 per share analysts had been expecting.
Apple said it sold 37.04 million iPhones for the quarter, up more than 128 percent from the year prior; 15.43 million iPads, up 111 percent (so much for the Kindle Fire …); 5.2 million Macs, up 26 percent; and nearly 15.4 million iPods, down 21 percent. Big numbers — all of them. And all but one trounced estimates.


Analysts had expected Apple to report first-quarter earnings of $10.08 a share on revenue of about $38.8 billion. And, on average, they had called for iPhone shipments of nearly 30 million, iPad shipments of about 14 million and Mac shipments of around five million.
“We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs,” Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said in a statement. “Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and we have some amazing new products in the pipeline.”
Apple’s guidance for the second quarter of fiscal 2012, as per usual, is comically low: Expected revenue of $32.5 billion and earnings per diluted share of $8.50.
Apple shares, which had slipped more than 1.6 percent to $420.31 in advance of the company’s earnings announcement, are now headed back upward in after-hours trading.
NOTES FROM THE EARNINGS CALL
Quick observations before the call: Apple now has $97 billion in cash, short- and long-term securities on hand. Apple’s profits exceeded Google’s entire revenue — $10.6 billion.
Q1 2012 brought with it all-time highs for quarterly iPhone, iPad and Mac sales.
Customers have downloaded more than 100 million apps from the Mac App Store in its first year.
iPod still claims more than a 70 percent share of the MP3 market.
The iTunes store generated $1.7 billion in revenue. $120 million in apps and music sold on Dec. 25 alone.
Strong iPhone growth across segments driven by iPhone 4S. Siri has “captivated consumers.”
Almost all of the Fortune 500 support the iPhone. Many are developing mission critical iPhone apps.
iPad is popular …
… with all segments of the market. Unprecedented adoption in Fortune 500 and education.
More than 600,000 copies of iBooks Author have been downloaded so far.
85 million iCloud customers so far.
By the end of this month, developers will have earned $4 billion cumulatively from App Store sales.
$6.1 billion in revenue from Apple retail stores. Each store generated an average of $17.1 million in revenue last quarter. That’s an increase of 43 percent from the year prior.
“We are actively discussing uses of our cash balance. But we have nothing to announce at this time. … We’re not letting it burn a hole in our pocket.”
Tim Cook: “The reception for the iPhone 4S has been breathtaking. … We made a very bold bet on demand, and it turns out we were short on supply throughout the quarter. … Actually, we ended it with a significant backlog. We’re still short in key geographies.”
Cook: “I think we made the right decision to go with a broad range of iPhones.”
Demand for the iPhone in China is “staggering.” Even though Apple is only selling through its Web site and retail partners, “demand is off the charts.”
Flooding in Thailand has forced Apple to pay more for hard drives. There wasn’t a material supply or cost impact on any product lines in the December quarter, but there will likely be a cost increase in March.
Cook: We’re really happy with the 15.4 million iPads we were able to sell. This is consistent with our long-term belief that this is a huge opportunity for Apple over time. And, as I’ve said before, there will come a day that the tablet market is larger than the PC market. IDC’s recent data shows that tablet sales exceeded desktop PC sales in the U.S. There is significant momentum in this space.
In terms of competitiveness, the iPad ecosystem is in a class by itself. We now have 70,000 apps. … I think people really want to do multiple things with their tablets, so we don’t see these limited-function tablets and e-readers as being in the same category as iPad. We don’t think people who want an iPad will settle for a limited-function device.
Peter Oppenheimer on Apple’s $97 billion in cash, and what the company might do with it: “We know it’s growing. We’re talking about it. … When we have something to announce, we’ll announce it.” He really doesn’t want to answer questions about this.
Cook on Apple TV and a possible Apple Television: Apple TV is doing extremely well; we just sold a record 104 million units. But we still classify this area as a hobby. We think it’s a fantastic product, and we continue to pull strings and see where we can take it.
Another question about that $97 billion. Did I mention that Oppenheimer really doesn’t want to answer questions about Apple’s cash?
Cook: We’re thrilled with iCloud. The response from our customers has been incredible. We’ve signed up 80 million customers in three months. It’s not a product, it’s a strategy for the next decade.
Nothing much to say about adding more iPhone carriers in China. Cook: “It’s an important market, and we continue to look at how to grow it further.”
Question about Anobit acquisition, but Oppenheimer dodges.
Cook on the iPhone in India and Russia: We’re selling in Russia through reseller and carrier partners, and we’re doing the same thing in India. … The next country on our list is Brazil — there’s a huge opportunity there. But I don’t envision Apple Retail going there in the near term.
Cook: When I looked at the data, particularly in the U.S., after Amazon launched the Kindle Fire, there wasn’t an obvious effect, plus or minus.
Cook: “There is cannibalization of the Mac by iPad, but there’s much more cannibalization of the PC. We love that trend. The iPad is beginning to appear everywhere. Enterprise has adopted it, education … we sold twice as many iPads into education as we did Macs. … It’s remarkable; we’ve sold 55 million iPads and we’ve only been in the business since April of 2010.”
Cook on Android versus iPhone: I wouldn’t compare it to Mac and Windows. The Mac has outgrown the market 20 quarters in a row, but still has single-digit market share. We’ve sold over 315 million iOS devices, and over 62 million were sold in the last quarter alone. I don’t have comparable numbers for Android, as I haven’t found a way to get very crisp quarterly reporting for Android like we do, that is transparent and reliable. … Nielsen shows iPhone at 45 percent and Android at 47; comScore shows iPhone at 42 and Android at 41. It’s a very close race.
I wouldn’t say this is a two-horse race. There’s a horse in Redmond that always suits up and runs. There are always other players. We’ll just want to focus on making great products. We ignore the number of horses on the track — we just want to be the one in the lead.

JANUARY 24, 2012 AT 1:30 PM PT

my 4 computers January 2012

the new iphone case.
its called the survivor, tested for military use.
i like it so far.
(And then all 4 of them together)
2008 sony vaio
2010 ipad 1
july 2011 macbook pro i5 ( my first mac)
october 2011 iphone 4S (my first iphone)

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Top 50 rank: 1
Rank in Computers: 1
(Previous rank: 1)
Overall score: 8.16
Why it's admired
For the fourth straight year, Apple tops Fortune's Most Admired list. The company's blistering pace of new product releases has continued to set the bar high for tech companies across the board.
Apple took a stock hit when iconic CEO Steve Jobs announced in January that he'd be taking a second medical leave, two years after receiving a liver transplant during a six-month sabbatical. But Jobs assured the market in the company's recent earnings report that Apple was still "firing on all cylinders."
It certainly appears to be. Apple nearly doubled its quarterly profits vs. a year ago. The iPad 2 was introduced in March, marking the second generation of one of Apple's milestone product successes. And Jobs made a surprise appearance at the launch.
Another huge move by Apple was the announcement this January that the iPhone 4 would be available from Verizon, offering another option to consumers frustrated with dropped calls on AT&T. --By Shelley DuBois



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