Chris Williams, The Register, Nicole Hemsoth Prickett, Tobias Mann, Iain Thomson, Brandon Vigliarolo, Tom Claburn
34 episodes
9 months ago
What's a kettle, you ask? Why a group of vultures in flight, of course. News, insights, analysis, and overall chatter around what's happening in the broader world of IT. With hosts Iain Thomson, Chris Williams, Brandon Vigliarolo, Nicole Hemsoth Prickett, and more....
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What's a kettle, you ask? Why a group of vultures in flight, of course. News, insights, analysis, and overall chatter around what's happening in the broader world of IT. With hosts Iain Thomson, Chris Williams, Brandon Vigliarolo, Nicole Hemsoth Prickett, and more....
Apple's response to a bad quarter is to spend, spend, spend...
The Register Kettle
14 minutes 20 seconds
1 year ago
Apple's response to a bad quarter is to spend, spend, spend...
Buying $110B of your own stock is legal, but isn't a good look.
It's earnings season and Apple showed less-than-stellar performance over the second quarter of 2024, but had a solution.
Was it to invest in the next must-have tech gadget? Maybe build its own AI model or search engine so that it doesn't have to rely on Google's technology in those areas? No, it was to spend $110 billion on its own shares - the largest share buyback in American history and a movie that the markets loved.
But - as we discuss in the Kettle you can watch below -stock buybacks (a practice that used to be illegal until the 1980s) are a bit of a red flag. When tech companies stop investing in development and start slashing the cash on buy their own shares - we're looking at you IBM, Intel, Google, Boeing etc…
The Register Kettle
What's a kettle, you ask? Why a group of vultures in flight, of course. News, insights, analysis, and overall chatter around what's happening in the broader world of IT. With hosts Iain Thomson, Chris Williams, Brandon Vigliarolo, Nicole Hemsoth Prickett, and more....
