{"id":83,"date":"2012-03-19T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triangleappshow.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2022-12-15T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:47:00","slug":"apples-cash-and-your-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/blog\/apples-cash-and-your-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s cash and your app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Apple will announce what it is going to do with $100b in cash.  Yes that&#8217;s right 100,000,000,000 in cash!!  As app developers we have contributed a lot to that war chest.  That doesn&#8217;t mean that apple will reduce it fees, or reduce the cost of the devices, no they will probably announce a dividend.  At least that is the conventional wisdom on wall street.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to suggest a completely different take, given that apple likes to control its supply chain.  Can apple buy Foxconn?  This would make them masters of their own manufacturing.  Tim Cook has a history in supply chain, at IBM, compaq, and apple.  They could both buy them and fix their image problem.<\/p>\n<p>Nah, don&#8217;t think it will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Apple will announce what it is going to do with $100b in cash. Yes that&#8217;s right 100,000,000,000 in cash!! As app developers we have contributed a lot to that war chest. That doesn&#8217;t mean that apple will reduce it fees, or reduce the cost of the devices, no they will probably announce a dividend. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,136,324],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apple","tag-earnings","tag-profit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aMa8-1l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}