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Re:Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug by matwood on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @09:04AM (#19198963)
Again, thinking binary is incorrect here. Apple is spending 10B+/year on R&D [1]. They clearly can think of something. I guess it could be argued they should be the top R&D spender (they are trending that way), but even if they were they would still have enough money do stock buy backs and pay dividends. The amount of money they make is staggering.

Apple has traditionally not be an acquirer of large companies. I know many people argue for them to do some big acquisition. I'm not sure that's a good idea.

Apple Maps specifically has improved a lot since release. I can't remember the last time I used Google Maps. Apple is also collecting street view data [2].

Apple has plenty of areas to improve, but it is not from the lack of R&D spending.

[1] http://dashboards.trefis.com/no-login-required/MCeJl2Yc?from...

[2] https://maps.apple.com/vehicles/

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Re:Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @10:34AM (#19199608)
>Again, thinking binary is incorrect here.

They can only spend each dollar exactly once. In that sense it is binary. But of course they can decide to do buybacks and invest in stuff. That's what they're doing.

My point is that I don't get why a company like Apple doesn't see great investment opportunities for every last dollar they earn. Especially as they have really huge gaps in their strategy.

They are not on a great trajectory right now. The services business they want to expand on does not look that strong to me in spite of growing reasonably fast right now.

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