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To: for-q-clinton
Not by as much as you might think.

Microsoft is currently worth about $90b and Google is currently sitting at $87.3b.

Considering that Microsoft has been around about a quarter century longer, it's pretty impressive what Google has done in less than 20 years of existence.

The real juggernaut is Apple, who were all but given up for dead back in 1998 when Google came on the scene.

Apple is worth some $111b and has had nearly $200b in revenue over the past year alone (more than both Microsoft and Google combined).

Apple is in uncharted territory and shows no sign of slowing down.

4 posted on 12/29/2014 3:06:53 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Apple makes money off of music (iTunes) and portable music players/cameras/phones now.


6 posted on 12/29/2014 3:10:22 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: SamAdams76

Google is essentially the US Government. So the numbers mean nothing.


7 posted on 12/29/2014 3:11:49 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: SamAdams76

Sinking so much money into a new eco-green - supposedly - and massive, hq, is a risk. Someone remarked that historically when a company’s done that, it was not a good sign for their future. Maybe apple bucks the trend, but without Jobs there so far nothing amazing has come out of there.


9 posted on 12/29/2014 3:23:08 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SamAdams76

Where are you getting your numbers? I’m referring to market cap. And Google was once the largest but is now being part up by Apple and Microsoft.


10 posted on 12/29/2014 3:51:43 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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