I came here to say "that's why independent tech podcasts are so important" but then I realized my own tech podcast was completely and utterly irrelevant :(

You have to understand something important here:

I'm karma whoring for the next Apple thread. :)

There are some medium-long term downsides to this, should Apple fall hard in the long term (ie; tablets prove to just be a trend, iPhone sales fall, etc...), but this is what investors have been waiting for. This is a fairly large buyback, which will inflate the price of the shares even more, but it's a small amount of money for Apple to be investing in itself.

This will more than likely force AAPL above $600 for the remainder of the financial year (and probably closer to $700).

There are a lot more people who are homeless who aren't begging for spare change at your local grocery store than you seem to be aware of. Many of these people actually still have some dignity left to seek out help at a homeless shelter, and to bust their asses to find paying work instead of turning to bumming.

You just don't notice them because they use whatever spare money they can muster up to buy a gym membership and shower there.

The drug cartels are not playing Anon's little kids game of doxing people. :(

Goddamn Universe! Stop treating us like we're kids! We want over a million factor reduction in our power usage! Imma go in a corner and cry :'(

That's called Reddit.

These scumbags - the RIAA and MPAA - act outside the bounds of government to force their worldview on us. When the fuck can I act outsides the bounds of the law?

Every time Apple says something like this, I get the uneasy feeling of working with a slick-haired businessman who promises that they've got nothing bad planned for the future, but then fuck you in the ass with Perry Saturn's mop.

Marketing claims to have a number. Engineers say otherwise.

Scott Adams finds more material to write about.