What are Apple going to do with that mountain of cash they've built up?

[Jay]

Have a guess before they announce it... That's a LOT of money and today is the day they're going to announce what they will do with it!

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/apple-to-reveal-today-how-it-will-spend-62bn-cash-pile-50007370/

[Jay]

What a boring announcement, like much of their product announcements  
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/03/apples-plans-for-its-100-billion-cash-pile-dividends.ars

Amid all flaming they've taken about how much the employees at the factories get paid they go and announce this... So much for those poor Chinese making their devices getting a pay rise, eh?

[R32UK]

i wonder where this big pile of cash actually is 

[jv]

At the bottom of the euro wine lake? Behind the butter mountain?

Dull but very sensible move. Has been a bit of a joke not paying a dividend.

[Jay]

Aye, I was shocked when I read they hadn't paid out since 1995 I can understand way back then when they were about to get tits, but they've been doing well for years...  Oh well, guess the share holders are going to be happy, silly Microsoft shouldn't have sold their shares