15 Things Apple Can Do With Its Whopping $137 Bn Cash Pile
#2 Build An Apple-Branded Space Station
If Apple wants to say that it is the top tech company in the world, literally, it can build a Apple-branded space station. NASA ‘s budget was about $58.7 billion for the International Space Station from 1985 to 2015, which was about $72.4 billion in 2010 dollars—a 23 percent increase over around 25 years. However, the International Space Station cost around $150 billion, but that includes the 36 shuttle flights at $1.4 billion each, adding $50.4 billion to the final figure. Apple doesn't have quite that much, but if Apple were to create its own version of the International Space Station, it probably wouldn't need as many flights to and from the station.
#1 Write Every American a check for $436
With the population of U.S. at about 314 million, Apple can give each of the residents a check for $436 that includes toddlers and kindergarten kids.
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