Comments on: One man's opinion http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/18/one-mans-opinion/ Full of sound and furry Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:20:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: GadgetGav http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/18/one-mans-opinion/#comment-458 GadgetGav Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:33:48 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=73#comment-458 I think there's more to come in the options backdating, they need to come clean about how Job's underwater & potentially backdated options were valued when converted to outright shares. The statements today are still pending possible restatement of financials going back years. You just know that Jobs was making good money somehow when he was getting a nominal salary of $1... It wasn't just at Apple though, I think this was accepted practice for big cheeses. The problem is how they sort it all out now that the climate has changed and it's now frowned upon. I think there’s more to come in the options backdating, they need to come clean about how Job’s underwater & potentially backdated options were valued when converted to outright shares. The statements today are still pending possible restatement of financials going back years.
You just know that Jobs was making good money somehow when he was getting a nominal salary of $1… It wasn’t just at Apple though, I think this was accepted practice for big cheeses. The problem is how they sort it all out now that the climate has changed and it’s now frowned upon.

]]> By: babble http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/18/one-mans-opinion/#comment-457 babble Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:26:39 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=73#comment-457 Has the SEC begun and investigation, or have they indicated they might? Unless or until that happens, it seems rather pointless to speculate either way. The outcome of Apple's internal investigation is all we have to go on at the moment; folks can choose to see that as inherrently biased in Steve's favor, or not. Really, until Apple gets called to the carpet by the folks who actually have the power to charge somebody, it seems useless - given that the received wisdom at this point is largely speculation - to make any assumptions one way or the other. Has the SEC begun and investigation, or have they indicated they might? Unless or until that happens, it seems rather pointless to speculate either way. The outcome of Apple’s internal investigation is all we have to go on at the moment; folks can choose to see that as inherrently biased in Steve’s favor, or not.

Really, until Apple gets called to the carpet by the folks who actually have the power to charge somebody, it seems useless – given that the received wisdom at this point is largely speculation – to make any assumptions one way or the other.

]]> By: Bob Jones http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/18/one-mans-opinion/#comment-456 Bob Jones Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:46:21 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=73#comment-456 From the conference call. "Special committee found no misconduct of any Apple Board member including Steve Jobs." http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/11332/ Not that it's definitive or without bias though. From the conference call.

“Special committee found no misconduct of any Apple Board member including Steve Jobs.”

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/11332/

Not that it’s definitive or without bias though.

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