'tis the season

Michael Gartenberg | December 07, 2007, 02:16 PM

when the "what will Steve Jobs intro at Macworld?" rumors start. While I won't go there, I will echo John Fortt over at Fortune and ask, what would you do with the nearly $15b Apple has in the Bank (projected by some to be as high as 45 billion by 2010). At the moment, Apple has more cash on hand than IBM, HP, Intel and Google raising some interesting questions for what they might use it for.

Clearly there's going to be some put aside for a rainy day but this also is a fine time for Apple to potentially do some interesting acquisitions, there's a few companies I think might be a good fit and Apple might go for.