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In case you missed it, Warren Buffett spent about three hours this morning talking with CNBC's Becky Quick about a number of topics, one of which was Apple (AAPL), about which he seems to have a fairly positive view.

Quick asked Buffett about Carl Icahn's urging the company to borrow money to buy back more stock. Icahn met with CEO Tim Cook for dinner last month, and told CNBC that he suggested the company buy back as much as $150 billion of its shares, largely by tapping debt markets.

Buffett seemed opposed to Icahn's suggestion, insisting Apple's management knows what it's doing, and that further aggressive buybacks, on top of Apple's planned $60 billion, the largest in corporate history, would be simply a sop to short-term traders of the stock:

Quick: Icahn's now a shareholder there, what do you think about his request, or his demand, to buy back an incredibly large chunk of stock?

Buffett: Well, I think the Apple management's done a pretty good job of running the company. I just wish I'd bought the stock many years ago. I did advise to buy its stock a few years ago, and they're buying it, they're buying a lot of stock. They've got a lot of money that, it's not trapped overseas, it's just that they'd have to pay a lot of money, and of course they're hoping there'll be some repatriation at some point, so they won't have to pay that tax.

Quick: Carl Icahn is actually suggesting that they borrow money, instead of bugging it back, borrow money to buy back a big chunck of stock…

Buffett: Well, actually, a lot of companies have done that, includingCoca-Cola (KO). Coca-Cola has a fair amount of money abroad, and they're buying stock. I think the Apple management and directors have done a pretty darned good job of running the company, and so my vote would be with them.

Quick: Versus what Carl Icahn is saying?

Buffett: Yeah, I do not think that companies should be run primarily to please Wall Street, and largely shareholders who are going to sell. I believe in running Berkshire for the shareholders who are going to stay, and not the ones who are going to leave.

Apple shares today are up $2.35, or half a percent, at $501.03.