An Apple a Day

Apple makes my phone and the Pad that seem to work pretty well and actually the gizmos are easy to use; enough so that an old fool like me can figure them out. Apple is also sitting on about $100,000,000,000+ in cold hard cash.

We note that there is some unrest among the shareholders that this money isn't being returned in dividends or something and/or put to better use than just sitting around some bank.  Reminds me of a fable of sorts:

  A MISER sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he
buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and
went to look at daily.  One of his workmen observed his frequent
visits to the spot and decided to watch his movements.  He soon
discovered the secret of the hidden treasure, and digging down,
came to the lump of gold, and stole it.  The Miser, on his next
visit, found the hole empty and began to tear his hair and to
make loud lamentations.  A neighbor, seeing him overcome with
grief and learning the cause, said, "Pray do not grieve so; but
go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the
gold is still lying there.  It will do you quite the same
service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did
not make the slightest use of it."