tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712195.post115469335585928352..comments2008-12-12T02:31:51.421-05:00Philip Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15709596700848616677noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712195.post-1154965140401569982006-08-07T11:39:00.000-04:002006-08-07T11:39:00.000-04:00

I wasn't comparing Apple to Enron ... just it seems like the Mac Web is!

fixyourthinkinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15709596700848616677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712195.post-1154954262739750682006-08-07T08:37:00.000-04:002006-08-07T08:37:00.000-04:00

Apple Enron headline: satire?<BR/><BR/>Anonymous blogger's last comments: ridiculous?

blogdognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712195.post-1154913561296378652006-08-06T21:19:00.000-04:002006-08-06T21:19:00.000-04:00

Comparing apple to enron even in a headline is ridiculous. Enron was starting scores of shell companies, actively bilking customers and involved in all sorts of shady business practices.<BR/><BR/>This whole "scandal" is about a specific kind of stock options as a way of paying employees that has fallen out of favor and that apple doesn't practice any more. It's not nothing as Apple's accounting

Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712195.post-1154716775866268012006-08-04T14:39:00.000-04:002006-08-04T14:39:00.000-04:00

True ... Apple doesn't have an excuse ... HOWEVER this is ALL due to a law that was passed recently about disclosing stock options in quarterly profit counts. The law is retroactive to 2002.<BR/><BR/>It's murky water as to whether this is anything illegal or not.

fixyourthinkinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15709596700848616677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712195.post-1154713563653110962006-08-04T13:46:00.000-04:002006-08-04T13:46:00.000-04:00

It's also worth pointing out that most 'small businesses' aren't publicly traded companies that are required to be accountable to their owners, the shareholders. This is no Enron. Still, Apple, which ranks #159 on the Fortune 500, really has no excuse for misrepresenting compensation costs to its shareholders.

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