Apple Most Valuable Company in the World
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Yep! That’s Apple for you.
AND ... with Apple being such a successful American company, which people here on Free Republic are all for “business” doing that (... American, free enterprise, extremely successful, happy customers, making a boatload of profit) ... why on earth do you find some FReepers being such rabid, obsessive and totally irrational Apple-haters?!
That is more amazing than Apple being the most successful company in the history of companies!
Might be the huge cult following...
History...no. Right now...no doubt. I’d line up any number of energy and transportation companies of the last century. We also don’t know the shelf life. Technology changes quickly. Companies at the top of the game a decade ago are of minimal value today. I see Apple sticking around, but can they continue this level of dominance?
A lot of hyperbole there. is the value normed in any way for inflation?
Carnegie Steel, 475 million back then is 75 billion today.
Apple? 56 Billion.
Carnegie steel utterly changed the infrastructure of the nation, probably to a bigger degree than apple which has numerous acceptable substitutes.
Apple opened China? Wag the dog much?
Fanboy breathless pronouncements aside, apple is a good company. But best in the history of the world? Not so much.
Might be, though they are totally irrelevant to me. Yeah, I bought an Apple 2C sorta laptop thing back in the day. Nothing since. I vote with no dollars.
I’m very stubborn and Conservative. Many friends admonished me to switch my computer to Apple, and for years I resisted.
I finally relented and now I can say they were right.
I’m not a huge fanboy, but sorry, PC’s break down fast.
I have beaten the cr*p out of my Apple for a very long time, and it appears not to have noticed.
I own no Apple products. That being said it is hard not to be impressed at the Apple brand. They are doing great things. However, they are always the next Prodigy, World Com. and Republic Steel.
They are a Corporation, even worse a technology corporation. Corporations have a habit of becoming complacent. Apple did in the past and damn near went out of business. They had to bring back Steve Jobs to basically rescue them from imminent demise.
We will have to see if the present management lead by self identified Sodomite Tim Cook can continue to inspire and innovate. They can never get Jobs back another time.
In time even Apple will go the way of DeSoto Motor Corp. Bough or buried.
“3. Apple makes more money than any company ever”.
Is this true in constant dollars? Some of those robber baron fortunes were off the charts in actual buying power.
I bet you are so proud of your cheapskate employer.
Apple is not an American company when it uses so much foreign labor then also keeps the cash outside the US. Sorry, but if the work is not done in the US and the profits are held outside the US, it isn’t a US company any of us give a crap about. Apple does very little good for the US. What, a few engineers in Kali and a few retail stores and that’s about it? Apple sells foreign made goods and keeps the proceeds outside the US; it is a foreign corporation. You seditionists are lousy citizens.
I’ve never been an Apple fan. Unfortunately, there was no good replacement for my old Palm PDA other than an iPod Touch. So I bought Apple stock at the same time, figured that if it increased in value, it would pay for my iPod Touch. Now, three years later, the increase in the value of my Apple stock has paid for a Toshiba laptop, two iPod Touches, two Google Nexus 7” tablets, and, as of this week, an iPad Air 2. It will also pay for whichever cell phone my husband decides to get when he retires next year. I’m still not an Apple fan, but at least my Apple stock offsets my reluctance to buy anything Apple. :-)