Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of The World — IBM Is
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#2"But I don’t think Jobs would see much pleasure in winning by such means. I’d instead expect he’d want to win the prize based upon the performance of the company and beat the rest without an asterisk next to the record."
What a load of crap. I fully remember when Jobs tried to define NeXT as a if not the leading workstation company by twiddling the definition of workstation to exclude Sun and HP/Apollo.
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#3Why do people even care? Has consumer culture so overtaken our minds that we identify personally with the things that we buy?
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#4When are these numbers ever inflation adjusted? Biggest grossing movie of all time inflation adjusted is still Gone With the Wind, but that didn't really stop people from talking about Titanic or Avatar.
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#5>.... [Apple] would have a value of more than $3 trillion by 2020. As the Times points out, that is bigger than the 2011 gross domestic product of France or Brazil.
Comparing an outlandish guess for a 2020 market cap versus a 2012 gross domestic product (a flow of money, not a store) is hand waving, not analysis.
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#6It's gross how much of the article is spent postulating on what Steve Jobs would think. He's gone. It's both irrelevant and disrespectful to put thoughts in his head.
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#7What about what ever entities that went after the Spice islands? Or east india company? I guess they were commissioned from the monarchies or parliment themselves so perhaps they don't count.
Perhaps the oil companies of today?
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#8Most valuable publicly traded company perhaps, see Saudi Aramco:
http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/titman/2010/03/01/more-thoug...
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#9When are these numbers ever inflation adjusted? Biggest grossing movie of all time inflation adjusted is still Gone With the Wind, but that didn't really stop people from talking about Titanic or Avatar.
Well, funny enough, if you look at the hacker news thread about Avatar hitting 1B, it is in fact discussed (one of the people mentioning it is me).
I stand by this, just as with movies: it matters. If not these numbers are completely arbitrary and meaningless. It is equivalent to comparing, numerically, the price of one company in Pesos vs the price of another in Dollars, it would make no sense unless they are both converted into the same unit. In this case, we don't even have to go that far back: even Microsoft's market cap in 1999 (adjusted for inflation) was more.
Edit: link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079716
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#10When are these numbers ever inflation adjusted? Biggest grossing movie of all time inflation adjusted is still Gone With the Wind, but that didn't really stop people from talking about Titanic or Avatar.
"Apple's market capitalization is still well below Microsoft's 1999 record if inflation is taken into account. The $619 billion then becomes $846 billion."
-- http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-market-value-hits-600b-1...
note that was from april of this year.