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Notwithstanding, the valuation and its assumptions refers to, from what I understand, how a minority stock investor, such as ourselves - individuals, may value the stock for its IP…

They should have mentioned Starbreeze which seems to have found gold with its Payday 2. But from what I understand it is not Starbreeze that will make the new Riddick game, but ano…

How about Bang & Olufsen?

other than the increased cost may deter some customers

Any investments made that are meant as long-term (i.e. >1year) is capitalized on the balance sheet and is a use of cash in the cash flow statement. Any short-term operating costs r…

Also B&O's newest TV, the Beovision 11 (a real beauty - http://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/picture/beovision-11 ) has a compartment for an ATV (or other similarly designed thingy) in t…

This is actually not really news since Apple said this already on their dividend announcement in March. Check the transcript for source

That's why its compared to the same quarter last year (Q1 2011) and not sequentially

No Safari?

I actually hadn't thought of the rumored new iPhone 5 design as a possibility of it being the next iPod Touch. Maybe that's why we haven't heard any iPod Touch rumors yet?

While I agree that there are many companies that do strip out stock-based compensation charges, in my opinion their reasoning, as you put it: "accounting mumbo-jumbo" charges" I do…

It should also be considered that the underwriters gets paid on the amount raised (7% according to the article), so the underwriters also "lost" money from that perspective.

Actually, when buying back stock you're essentially reducing the number of shares outstanding, which, all else equal, would translate into a higher stock price.

They're really speeding up their release schedule. Not really related to the topic, but I'm curious why is the Mac build twice the size of the Windows one?

All pages link: http://hbr.org/2011/04/why-most-product-launches-fail/ar/pr (for Instapaper users)

Personal hotspot works perfectly. Actually, even better than perfectly since it's activated on my iphone without me paying anything extra for it. Very nice.

Why change the title of the article from Intel's technology to Apple's?

Actually, in my mind price is what anyone will pay for something - the value may not be the same as the price