Yes, hindsight is twenty-twenty, there was speculations about how Trump would implement the tariffs before he did it, and before it could be seen as taking the necessary steps to prevent the tariffs that Apple would be affected by, and bow it can be seen as it could have been worse.
As for loss of stock value, as long as the shareholders don’t sell out of panic, they still have the shares and can recover their losses if the share price goes up.
He spent a million dollars to curry favor with the man who’s going to control a lot of their interests for four years.
I think the shareholders would agree that its a good bet.
The shareholders who, as a whole, just lost $250B? You think?
Let’s be honest, if Apple didn’t pay that $1m then the shareholders would still have lost $250B. $1m is nothing in this.
Yeah scale. A million is like .001 billions. I would spend .001. Scale it down would you spend a tenth of a cent to possibly save $250? Yes.
I try not to.
I’ll toss this friendly jab, at the risk of offending SatansMaggotyCumFart:
At least you’re not a total failure!
I don’t have a long list of enemies but you just made it on there.
Good call.
I tagged you Fondant so I can remember.
That’s my evil twin.
Yes, hindsight is twenty-twenty, there was speculations about how Trump would implement the tariffs before he did it, and before it could be seen as taking the necessary steps to prevent the tariffs that Apple would be affected by, and bow it can be seen as it could have been worse.
As for loss of stock value, as long as the shareholders don’t sell out of panic, they still have the shares and can recover their losses if the share price goes up.
Someone’s an optimist.
So basically you’re saying he had to pay fief to the king.
More like protection money to the mob boss.
They are the same picture…