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Thank you for your sharing. To make the article easier to understand, I further summarize the main idea as follows:

I. (Paragraf1-2) The mountain of Apple's cash is getting higher and higher.

II. (Paragraf3) Apple's growing cash is a double-edged sword: on the one hand it can give Tim cook a big boost; on the other hand it pressures its boss and board about explaining what to do with the extra cash.


III. (Paragraf4) The obvious solution is giving cash back to the shareholders through dividends or share buybacks but this wound make a big departure from the founder's philosophy (take Microsoft as an example).

IV. (Paragraf5-6) Apple is not likely to follow Microsoft's fate because demand for its products looks insatiable and it is unlikely to change the policy of long shunning megadeal and preferring smaller firms with technology and people it covets.

VI. (Paragraf7-8) It will take time to know how to make the most of $100 billion because much of its money is outside America. And  Apple may have trouble finding a good way to use but its shareholders will not.

小小黑马 发表于 2012-3-20 15:47
Thank you for your sharing. To make the article easier to understand, I further summarize the main i ...

糟糕，上面段落标错了，最后一个段落应该是V,not VI. Sorry

楼主翻译的不错。

First，Apple make a remarkable amount of DollaR through their unparalleled products，
then comes the problem of spending it。Some companies have  Similar problems。
there are also battlefields for these entities。
But Anyway，It's happiness trouble，Isn't it？  

The key problem for Apple is how to spend money efficiently. But Apple can't find better ways of using the cash.  The company really don't need that much money! Unbelievably.

The developing of Apple show us the importance of innovation and the service for customers。

翻译很牛，膜拜ing

占座学习！

I dont know much about the Apple， maybe I'm not fashionable。
To the thing itself, I think Apple as a mature and ritional firm， it will think of the strategy thoroughly。 And I think now some controversial decisions can attract concern of people， and people like to talk about the popular thing in a certain time。 get it easy，Apple fans， you are always the little sheep。  Forgive my evil thought。

Bob Hope