Apple's Middle Age
Any article that speculates on Apple&#x27;s future viability in the market would be remiss not to mention Apple&#x27;s unprecedented cash hoard. Currently, Apple is sitting on $126B in net tangible assets.<p>With 100,000 full-time equivalent employees, that means that Apple could pay every one of their full-time equivalent employees (which, as a reminder, includes a large number of retail employees) an average yearly salary of $100K for 12 years while making $0 in revenue and still not deplete their cash reserves!<p>Or, to put it all in perspective, based on Wikipedia&#x27;s cited estimate (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Space_Station#Cost" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Space_Station#Co...</a>) the International Space Station cost $150B to construct. Personally, I&#x27;m looking forward to visiting the iSS at some point in the future.