If you pay $100 extra once in your life for the gold iPhone, then Apple has prob...

djyaz1200 · on Oct 9, 2015

True, more than the money it's the problem that all these super talented people are trying to relive Superman 3 instead of curing cancer.

czinck · on Oct 9, 2015

Have you found the cure for cancer and now you're wasting time while waiting for the FDA to approve it?

crdoconnor · on Oct 9, 2015

TABB group estimated HFT income to be $21 billion in 2009. That's about $65 for every man, woman and child in the US.

Ballpark figure, of course.

yummyfajitas · on Oct 9, 2015

Not quite, that's a theoretical upper bound - it's spread x share volume. Compare that to Apple's actual profit last year of $39B.

crdoconnor · on Oct 9, 2015

Losses due to burglary, by contrast, are around $5 billion a year. For comparison.

Which is probably more relevant than AAPL's net profit.