Because I'm realistic about the fact that money doesn't grow on trees, and businesses only keep things around in the long-term that clearly contribute to the bottom line.

> especially if they clearly don't need the revenue

Pretty much everyone with shares in Apple would very much like more revenue because those shares become more valuable. There's no such thing as shares that "don't need" to grow anymore.

> Are you ok?

How about we don't talk like that on HN? See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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