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Liquid cash and total valuation. Before the government asked them to start divesting, they had something like 200 billion dollars in liquid cash, sitting around doing nothing.

you know that's bad, right?

Oh, for sure. The fact that a company with billions of dollars couldn't research a way to fit a 1080p webcam into their bezel is utterly hysterical, and it's pretty endemic of the pearls-before-swine attitude that the Apple Treasury takes.

This attitude is what caused Jony Ive's Apple in 2016. Thinner, lighter and less bezels is what made laptops worse. No thank you.

I'd rather have a thicker laptop with ports and longer battery life. I would rather have a higher quality camera than having a smaller bezel.

I'd rather not have to pick and choose between a congruous display and a webcam that is worse than the 2012 Macbook Air.

Bad for whom?

It allowed Apple to continue to pay its retail employees when the stores were closed for the pandemic. Seems like the opposite of "bad."

Brand value, probably.

money?