Answers From Steve Jobs at Apple's Shareholder Meeting 162
DECS writes "At today's Apple annual shareholder meeting, a series of proposals were presented for voting after which CEO Steve Jobs answered a series of questions from the audience. Jobs talked about Greenpeace, stock options, the iPhone, Mac OS X Leopard, and .Mac."
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Jobs on his salary: (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Anyone notice a change in Jobs? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Anyone notice a change in Jobs? (Score:5, Interesting)
Tim Fischer, the op at the time, threw him out. "Do you know who I am?" he said -- Tim responded "I don't care if you're f***ing Steve Jobs, get out of my computer room". Steve left and I believe TIm got a pay rise out of it, although he was a bit shook when he told me.
RSTS-E/Basic Plus -- everything you needed but address space...
do something with the cash! (Score:1, Interesting)
My opinion as an Apple shareholder (1000 shares).
Re:Anyone notice a change in Jobs? (Score:1, Interesting)
forget about being "slightly better" (Score:5, Interesting)
As for Apple, I wish they'd replace their styrofoam packaging with something recycled and biodegradable. Apple's packaging is like a throwback to the 70's.
Campaigning has cleaned up Ikea too (Score:3, Interesting)
Case in point, Ikea, which is nowadays greener and more ethical than any number of small furniture retailers, even the mom-and-pop operations that probably sell the worst kind of child labour produced rainforest wood furniture there is.
This due to being vocal about the problems by that company and now it turns out that if you want to be an ethical shopper you have to shop at Ikea.
Re:Anyone notice a change in Jobs? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:roughlydrafted.com article == blog entry? (Score:1, Interesting)
The alternative is beyond frightening. And it's scary that there are people like you out there in the world, purportedly thinking.
Or have IBT?
Re:do something with the cash! (Score:3, Interesting)
Well, it has been going up lately, [lenntech.com] but MS stock outperformed [google.com] it (click the Max zoom in the upper right hand area of the graph). A much better investment might be copper. I read an article years ago by an economic geologist (haven't found a link to it though) in which it was stated that at current known copper reserves, there isn't enough copper to wire the third world to the same extent the industrialized nations are wired (power and communications). Wireless may change that, but the third world still wants electricity, and China is building 544 new coal power plants [bbc.co.uk] in the foreseeable future. That's a lot of copper, and without some kind of gigantic new source, that's likely to mean higher copper prices in the future.
I'd advise apple to invest in either copper of MS stock.
Re:Jobs on his salary: (Score:3, Interesting)
I argue that all executives above a certain level should be on $1/year salary, with other money coming in based purely on performance. If the alternative (the current state) is huge bonuses on top of already huge salaries when the company is tanking and workers are getting shafted, then it'd be an improvement. It should also make executives focus on longer term success for a company.
Having said all that, the amount he was given by the board is excessively high.