[allmost]

Market share does not justify this valuation. Is Al Gore still on the Board at Apple?

[ClearCase_guy]

I'm not an Apple basher -- they make some fine products. But this sounds a bit like the heyday of Internet stocks. Exxon has control over a large amount of a crucial natural resource, and is vital to modern industrial life -- but Apple make a pretty nifty phone and thus has a larger capitalization. Yee-Haa!

My sense is that this doesn't end well.

[Swordmaker]

Apple poised to overtake Exxon as the most valuable company in the US. PING!

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[seton89]

http://gizmodo.com/5598828/apple-magic-trackpad-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-mac-os-x?skyline=true&s=i

Apple Magic Trackpad: The Beginning of the End for Mac OS X
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very interesting article

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Too bad, they don’t actually make their gadgets here.

Basically, Apple is a huge info-mercial.

[mainsail that]

“Consider this: At the start of the year, Apple’s market value was nearly $125 billion lower than Exxon Mobil’s.”

Easy come easy go. One video of an exploding laptop and you lose $50 Billion

[Biggirl]

I hope there is no bashing here on this thread.

[catfish1957]

In these hard times, it will just take one more economic blip to cut Apple valuation in half (Cisco comes to mind) Versus ExxonMobil which is one of the strongest defensive plays of all. When it boils down to buying gasoline to get to work versus buying that new generation IPOD, you know which will win.

[Atlas Sneezed]

That’s about $1000 per person in this nation.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I really like my Apple products, but I suspect the current valuation being greater than other companies is a function of the phase of the stock market and economy. Apple is making money and others, far less.

That will change.

[LexBaird]

Speaking of which... it's been three months:

Apple releases iTunes 9.1.1 for Mac and Windows April 28, 2010 3:56:29 PM PDT · 34 of 50
LexBaird to dennisw
Okay, just for fun, APPL is $261.60 today. Let’s check things in 3 months.

$257.85 as of July 30. Down a bit, but I hope you didn't short AAPL too much, Dennis.