Interest in Android drives the sales, and the royalty-free licensing keeps it from dipping into profits.
To bolster those reserves, managers will have to dip into profits.
Although some firms may dip into profits to plug newly exposed gaps, many more will continue the trend of junking defined-benefit schemes altogether.
In the mid-90's, expenses for workers' compensation insurers dipped and profits skyrocketed just as the stock and bond markets were at their most exuberant.
The largest gains in compensation, however, have come in an area where there is no evidence of increased demand or tight supply: the market for chief executives.Bouncing bonusesTop bosses' pay dipped with profits in the past couple of years although it could never have been called low.
In the first half of 2002 revenue dipped 5.7%; net profit, down 50%.
And there's already evidence of that, with revenue slipping 3 percent and pretax, preprovision profit dipping 8 percent from last year's fourth quarter.
While helping broker the deal between securities firms and the states, NYSE Chairman and Chief Executive Dick Grasso Dick Grasso has watched the value of an exchange seat decline 40%, member firms' profits slip 33% and specialist profits dip 4%.
Pay attention before your profits start dipping.
The central bank also took further steps to unwind the emergency measures it introduced in July, when the rupee plunged in currency markets.Apple's quarterly net profit dipped again, to $7.5 billion between July and September compared with $8.2 billion for the same period last year.
