Apple is bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Facebook combined
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Re: Apple is bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Facebook combined
#2For now...
I don't expect this to continue. They've picked some seriously big fights recently. From prior observation, I have always seen that it only ends bad.
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#4Seriously, I'm tired of all this BS. What matters for a real company is how they stand to innovate, not how much they make. Right now, Apple's strategy seems to be more of 'litigate' than innovate. What's the use of all this market cap by exercising unfair, unjust monopoly by abusing the patent system with trivial, BS patents?
I know a lot of companies that don't make a lot of money but strive for true innovation (Eg. Tesla Motors). Money is not everything, you know...even a prostitute makes a lot of money..and that doesn't mean that the prostitute is better than the average, faithful woman...because she stands for something true, unlike the prostitute.
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#5Am I the only one who is tired of being updated what Apples market cap is now bigger than?
At first they were interesting stats, but in reality it isn't overly useful information.
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Re: Apple is bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Facebook combined
#7Let's say one could choose only one of the groups: either have Apple while MS, Google, Amazon, and FB does not exists, or there's no Apple and the rest is there.
Would anyone really choose the first scenario?
Re: Apple is bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Facebook combined
#8Am I the only one who is tired of being updated what Apples market cap is now bigger than? At first they were interesting stats, but in reality it isn't overly useful information.
This. Clearly Apple is a hugely successful company. Are they ultimately more valuable than all of those companies combined? Not a chance.
The case could be made that those companies are undervalued or that Apple is overvalued but ultimately the comparison itself isn't very meaningful without any kind of opinion/analysis behind it.
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#9Apple has become the big bully a-hole company that Microsoft used to be (perhaps even worse). Apple always was the little guy and had it's faithful niche market. It was the "underdog" that everyone rooted (or at least deep down felt a bit felt sorry for). Now it has "sold out" and gone mainstream. It has become a greedy corporate giant and with it's figurehead now out of the picture - it's image has begun to tarnish even faster.
I predict that dislike or even hatred toward apple will begin to expand until it equals or surpasses that we see of Microsoft today. It will no longer be "hip" and once this image slips - Apple will plummet.
This coupled by other tech companies (including all other smartphone manufacturers) banding together and defeating Apple's garbage patent claims (they own a patent on a perfect rectangle as part of a UI design?) will spell an end of a great run for Apple where innovation boomed, but was overcome by greed -leading to their eventual downfall.
Re: Apple is bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Facebook combined
#10Seriously, I'm tired of all this BS. What matters for a real company is how they stand to innovate, not how much they make. Right now, Apple's strategy seems to be more of 'litigate' than innovate. What's the use of all this market cap by exercising unfair, unjust monopoly by abusing the patent system with trivial, BS patents? I know a lot of companies that don't make a lot of money but strive for true innovation (Eg…
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