Kettle Apple had a moderately dismal first three months of the year, although iGiant found a way to keep the key people happy. Yes, we mean Wall St.
Why did Apple announce a SHARE BUYBACK?
Was it to invest in the next actual must-have technology? Maybe build its own iSearch engine so it doesn't have to rely on, or dare we say compete with, Google? No, it was spending $110 billion to buy back its own stock—the largest stock buyback in American history and a move the markets loved.
For this latest episode of The Register's Kettle, our fine journalists Brandon Vigliarolo and Tom Claburn, our editor Chris Williams and your host Iain Thomson dived into Apple's view of the as well as the DOJ-Google lawsuit. You can replay our discussion below.
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