[stonesam92]

It's sarcasm.

Industry analysts and the media often claim that Apple is doomed, but given their earnings obviously this is far from the case.

[TheOtherHobbes]

They still can't fix their software. (Drag and drop is intermittently borkened in El Capitan.)

And besides - what are they going to do with all that money?

At some point the actual size of the cash pile becomes an irrelevance - unless they're buying countries, secretly trying to set up a private army that could take on all the world's superpowers at the same time, or running a combined FTL/anti-gravity research lab.

[cryptoz]

> And besides - what are they going to do with all that money?

The consensus seems to be that they will enter larger markets, like automobiles. Cars cost billions to research and develop and are therefore a difficult and expensive market to enter. If Apple does enter and dominate this market, that would cost them a huge amount of their cash store but would open up additional revenue streams similar or greater than they currently enjoy.

[nickbauman]

World class software requires a certain amount of money. But increasing the talent and will for better software is not a problem you can just throw more money at to solve. The number of people who can write software at Apple's level is finite, and you can't just buy your way into owning all of them.