And with plenty extra to light their cigars: Apple reported more than $10 billion in net income for the latest quarter Tuesday on sales of nearly $50 billion.
Although investors were disappointed because the report suggested the Apple Watch isn’t exactly flying off the shelves, that’s still a lot of money, In fact, Apple makes so much money that The Buzz proposes a new metric for reporting its earnings: How many plutocrats could bathe, Scrooge McDuck-style, in tubs full of $100 bills from Apple’s quarterly income?
(The answer: About 33,000. Nope, not showing our math.)
Who are they losing to now? The Seattle Mariners took the worst record in the American League into Tuesday’s game at Detroit.
But the pain will soon be over for local sports fans, because baseball season will end July 31. That’s when the Seattle Seahawks training camp gets under way.
Surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Debuting tonight on Fox is a reality series called “Home Free,” which challenges couples to renovate run-down homes.
Spoiler alert: Given the stresses of home remodelling projects, most if not all of these couples will later be seen in a very different TV show: “Divorce Court.”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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