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He can live off the dividends after that and only pay 15% taxes too.


Sort of hard to do, if your stock doesn't actually pay any dividend.


many Apple shareholders would agree wholeheartedly with this statement.

With that said, all that cash they are sitting on is really interesting, considering they've been hoarding it for a while. Jobs was criticized for this in the financial arena, but his position always referred back to the days when Apple almost went down the drain. That has made them ultra-conservative from a financial perspective.


Yes, but now he has an incentive to fix that problem :)


What dividends? Apple doesn't yet pay out one, though it's possible that'd eh Luke sometime in the future.




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