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To: tacticalogic; Star Traveler
I can see you have never done any formal debating since you have no clue about the proper argument format. You claim I have to prove the negative of my argument. Apple has produced MORE profit in a single quarter than any other business in history and you say that I have to prove more than that? Why? That is indisputable. It was all over the business news.

However, since you are so dense and think I need to provide more evidence, I shall. . . and are implying that I am a liar. . . even though you have provided absolutely ZERO countering evidence, as is typical of you Apple-hating trolls, I will do as I usually do, prove you wrong.

Apple is way down the list of companies ranked by revenues.

Revenues are all well and good. . . but it's like Market Share. Unless those revenues stick to your fingers and in your pocket, they mean NOTHING. Unless you want to count certain Government national banks like the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China's profits of $ 42,718,000,000 with assets of 3,124,886,000,000 (that three TRILLION dollars). . . and the US Government's Fannie Mae withe profits of $ 83,963,000,000 on assets of 3,270,108,000,000 (another $3 trillion in real estate loans), There is NO OTHER COMPANY IN THE WORLD with profits like Apple's!

Profits of the worlds' largest revenue corporations in order of PROFITS:

WORLD CORPORATIONS IN ORDER OF PROFITS — 2014
Corporation US Rev. Rank World Rev. Rank Revenue Profit Rank Profits
Apple Inc. 5 15 $170,910,000,000 1 $37,037,000,000
Exxon Mobile 2 5 $407,666,000,000 2 $32,580,000,000
Samsung Electronics n/a 13 $208,938,000,000 3 $27,245,000,000
British Petroleum n/a 6 $396,217,000,000 4 $23,451,000,000
Chevron 3 12 $220,356,000,000 5 $21,423,000,000
Berkshire Hathaway 4 14 $182,150,000,000 6 $19,476,000,000
China National Petroleum n/a 4 $432,007,000,000 7 $18,504,000,000
Toyota Motor n/a 9 $256,454,000,000 8 $18,198,000,000
Royal Dutch Shell n/a 2 $459,599,000,000 9 $16,371,000,000
WalMart 1 1 $476,294,000,000 10 $16,022,000,000
Volkswagon n/a 8 $261,539,000,000 11 $12,071,000,000
Total Oil n/a 11 $227,882,000,000 12 $11,204,000,000
Sinopec Group n/a 3 $457,201,000,000 13 $8,932,000,000
China State Grid n/a 7 $333,386,000,000 14 $7,982,000,000
Glance n/a 10 $232,694,000,000 15 $ 7,402,000,000

73 posted on 03/07/2015 11:20:33 AM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker
The proposition at hand is that Apple is more successful than any company, ever. You still have a lot of years to account for.

Or you can just admit that you don't really know if it is the most successful "ever".

76 posted on 03/07/2015 2:39:02 PM PST by tacticalogic
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