Originally Posted by V_RocKs

In other words... The reason Steve Jobs never paid them was because it was a HUGE and UTTERLY STUPID way to spend the money. Instead use it to do R&D!

Use it to do things that push the stock price even higher. Giving the money to investors is the stupidest thing you can do as a company.

People with 1,000,000 shares of Apple stock made hundreds of millions of dollars on the share price. This dividend payout is just so fucking dumb...