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Friday Apple Quickies

Posted by pudge on from the he-shoots-he-scores dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Steve Jobs' $78 million Apple income tops Fortune magazine's list of CEOs whose companies lagged behind the S&P 500 performance last year. The number 'reflects the value of five million restricted shares Jobs got this year in exchange for 27.5 million underwater options.'" markomarko writes "Well, despite Charlie White making all us Mac users eat crow over his comparison of render times between a dual 1.25 GHz Power Mac and a Dell 3.06 GHz P4, it seems that that Dave Nagel has given us a reason to take another look at the Mac. His article shows how After Effects render speeds can be doubled with the Mac, by using both CPUs."

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  1. sorry bout that OFFTOPIC by Sevn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    brain no worky right dead tired sleep now.
    night.

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  2. -1 troll by dankow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, for the ability to just mod this entire story "-1 Troll." Pudge pratically trolls himself in this one! "Macs suck. No wait, they don't."

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  3. Fortune's figures on Jobs are bogus by rsfinn · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I wrote the following to Fortune magazine:
    In "High Pay, Rotten Returns" (April 28 issue), you peg Apple Computer's Steve Jobs' 2002 compensation at $78.1 million, saying "This amount reflects the value of five million restricted shares Jobs got this year in exchange for 27.5 million underwater options." First, of course, this grant was awarded in 2003, so adding it to Jobs' 2002 compensation is inaccurate. Secondly, according to Apple's press release the grant vests in three years, so assigning it any value today is premature -- no one knows what the stock price will be in three years, and in any case Jobs doesn't have the stock today.

    Apparently you wanted to get Jobs at the top of the list of "piggy CEOs". Fine. But how many other CEOs on the list draw an annual salary of $1? (Well, apparently Tom Siebel of Siebel Systems -- but he "sold lots of old options," and turned in others, like Jobs did.)
    (sources: Apple press release; article in 2003-04-14 MWJ -- a free trial before Monday should get you this issue)

    Fortune sent me a reply saying they're going to print this in the next issue.