The stock continues its upward path in a difficult market.

It must have been a good meeting.

Where are my dividends and shareholder discounts? I don't want to liquidate in order to get value out of my shares. Jobs has been dodging these questions for far too long, and I for one intend to show him I've run out of patience next voting cycle.

As an interested shareholder I attended the meeting and found it very interesting.

First off, my question, during the Q&A was concerned HD content for the iTunes store (for AppleTv use of course) and the possibility of being able to rent videos through the AppleTV as well:

"When a shareholder asked Jobs for high-definition video content on iTunes and asked if his Apple TV could allow him to rent movies, the CEO smiled. 'One never knows,' he said cryptically."

Now that may seem like an artful dodge, but what didn't get reported was when a question that another shareholder asked as to whether or not Apple was going to be getting into the medical data collection field. To which questions Steve Jobs flat out told him, no we are not.

So a cryptic "One never knows" probably means it's only a matter of time (hopefully short) until these features are present in the AppleTV universe.


Truly the most disappointing part of the meeting was all the special interest HACKS that showed up to spout their self-righteous opinions as to how Apple should be running their company. The Greenpeace hack was actually shouting most of his statement. And that's not an exaggeration. It only made him lose more credibility.

Here's how the meeting went down in the Reader's digest version. The board's proposals were announced and voted on. Then the shareholders (special interest group's) motions were read and voted on. Then we learned that given the preliminary voting data ALREADY in to Apple, all the Board's motions passed. All the Hack's motions failed.

Then they took some Q&A where the Hacks each came back to attack the board members again. Fortunately they were limited to just a few minutes each.


As an Apple Inc. shareholder, and part owner of the company, here is how I see it. The Board DOES and SHOULD run the company. Special interest groups should stay home, or as Jobs recommended seek a more constructive way of communicating with companies. As a shareholder I am free at anytime to vote with my shares. If I think the Board isn't running the company well. Then I'll sell my Apple shares and look elsewhere. And they know that.

They made a mistake with the options backdating. They learned their lesson (several times over). Now let's all just move on...to June and iPhones for everyone...

Al

Quote:<hr />
I'm glad to hear that Apple is wrestling with opening the iPhone up to third party application developers. I think it's essential that Apple consider the iPhone a true productivity device for which Apple cannot think of or provide 100% of the solutions.

Third party applications are critical to making almost any platform successful. Cell phones have been exempted because of their limited abilities. PDAs, on the other hand, have not been exempt. As the iPhone seeks to move beyond the traditional boundaries of the cell phone, I think it would become a more compelling device as a platform open to a diverse range of applications. Being able to build on top of OS X, would make it a truly powerful device.

<hr />

Yes however Apple will want to guarantee the experience the same way they do the iPod and it's ecosystem and to a lesser extent these days the Mac OS X applications.