(Seven Day Cooldown)

Remember that story about ? Turns out it was just that--a story. Valve co-founder Gabe Newell said on a podcast that Cook didn't meet with anybody at Valve, and never came to the company's office. Hate to break it to you, Gabe, but Tim Cook is such a smooth operator that by the time he walked out of that building he Valve.

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If you thought that would quell analysts' constant questioning about Apple's plans to for its cash holdings, well, you clearly don't know analysts. The is that Apple is buying up crucial elements for its supply chain. You know, this is a terrible secret plan: I still maintain they should have spent the money hollowing out an island volcano for Tim Cook's lair.

(Wired)