Almost everyone knows that Apple is sitting on a huge pile of cash, around $24.5 billion. That might be enough to fill one of Scrooge McDuck's cash vaults, but there have to be some other interesting things to do with that much money.
While feeling depressed about how low the value of Apple stock has fallen recently (below $90 per share), I checked out some other companies that are falling due to the same economic worries. There I saw the perfect company that is finally cheap enough that Apple can buy the whole thing: Dell.
After beginning with this non-starter the author, Frank Fox, goes onto suggest several reasons why this would be a good idea and what Apple could possibly do with the Dell brand (the best of which is to make Dell a "Linksys" like low end brand to Apple's high end "Cisco" brand). He does, however, miss the most obvious idea. An idea floated by Michael Dell himself in an inverse way.
Apple should buy Dell and then what?
"Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
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