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howmayiannoyyouyesterday at 3:52 PM1 replyview on HN

Apple: $60b in cash.

The revenue from AI is growing at a much slower rate than recurring capex and depreciation is accumulating. This will create distress opportunities that cash-rich companies like APPL may seize. Might be a private equity deal, might be in the public markets as some of the players dip hard after IPO.

As this plays out, APPL's silicon has unified memory, power consumption and native acceleration that gives it an edge running SLMs and possibly LLMs at scale. Wouldn't shock me to see APPL introduce a data-center solution.


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queserayesterday at 8:51 PM

Nit: stock ticker symbol is AAPL.

APPL was the Type Code[0] for an Application, in classic MacOS (1984).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork#Types