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Share Buybacks Make Apple Sweeter

Here - here - down with the short-term focus and business planning based on quarterly EPS financials.

Apple is NOT in business to please day traders and investment bankers!

Apple shareholders know that if Apple uses its "war chest" (why must everything devolve to military and combative cliches?) to invest in R&D that it will blow the doors off the market, while its competitors are marking time, drowning in debt and suffering from lower revenues during the downturn - and NOT able to significantly invest in R&D.

That's what I want to see. That's what has lasting shareholder value. That's what makes an even bigger "war chest" and makes big dividends and buy-backs even more plausible when the economy turns around.

Apple, do the right thing and don't cave to these short-sighted talking heads!