Apple breaks world record in profitability.

[Julius Seeker]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... one-6-plus

"The tech company – already the most valuable on the stock market – reported profits of $18bn (£11.9bn) for the third quarter of the fiscal year, surpassing the previous record quarters set by oil companies ExxonMobil and Gazprom."

That's a pretty big chunk of change.

[Replay]

Call me when they share any of it with the Tibetan kids who harvest their coltan.

I am not a big Apple fan. I had an iPhone 4. I am not one who finds it hard to love any given computer; but that was a shitty computer and I could not love it. The best thing it ever did for me was crap out early so I had to get a different brand; and I suspect it relates. Shitty Chinese electronics; Tibetan coltan harvested by starving kids - Cook's business acumen isn't in doubt, but does he have a heart?

[ManaMan]

I'm sure their tax dodging isn't hurting their profits (thanks Ireland!).

Apple makes slick, overpriced, prestige items for the upper-middle class. They're the Audi of electronics.

[Oracle]

Apple makes slick, overpriced, prestige items for the upper-middle class. They're the Audi of electronics.

Then there's this shit

http://www.vertu.com/