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allenu
8 months ago
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Palm’s CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)
That is quite amusing, but $10M is peanuts to Apple for some necessary patent licenses.
bryanrasmussen
8 months ago
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peanuts now, but peanuts then?
function_seven
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Yeah, even in 2007 Apple was a huge success already. Worth about $200 billion at the time, was earning about $3.5 billion a year in profit, and had $15 billion cash on hand.
https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2007/10/22Apple-Reports-Fo...
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