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Just exactly how big is Apple?
#1
I thought the following trivia was interesting.


Apple is the biggest company in the world. Apple is worth $725 billion. How big is that, exactly?

Price Waterhouse Coopers today released its annual overview of the world’s largest companies. Some perspective:

Apple is worth almost twice as much as the world’s second largest company, Google (valued at $375 billion).

Apple is worth as much as the second and third largest companies in the world (Google and Exxon Mobil) combined.

Apple is worth more than Walmart, Facebook, and JPMorgan Chase combined.

In the past year, Apple increased in value by more than the total value of General Electric.

Apple is worth more than the gross domestic products of Pakistan, Peru, and the Philippines combined.

Apple is worth more than the gross domestic products of West Virginia, New Hampshire, Idaho, Delaware, North Dakota, Alaska, Maine, South Dakota, Wyoming, Rhode Island, Montana, and Vermont combined.

Apple is worth more than the net worth of the fourteen richest people on earth combined—a list that includes Carlos Slim, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, Michael Bloomberg, the Koch Brothers, and the entire Walton family.

Apple is worth more than $100 billion more than the entire 2014 United States defense budget, which includes all spending on the armed forces and Defense department and related departments and all international wars.
"You can be young without money but you can't be old without money"
Maggie the Cat from "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." by Tennessee Williams
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#2
quality over quantity.
''Do I look civilized to you?''
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#3
In College...I had a job as a waiter practically right next to Apple in Cupertino..you could walk there...Hewlett Packard was on the other side....

Mostly Apple peeps were customers..some HP guys as well. I worked the breakfast and lunch shift ...very busy.... and profitable...

I knew a lot of people who worked there as well and by all accounts...a great company to work for...

We had a booth where they would set up cameras sometimes for some of the morning business shows and interview the CEOs or movers and shakers in Silicon Valley over breakfast...

We weren't always called Silicon Valley though...we used to be called Blossom Valley because you could drive for miles and see all the orchards blooming with colorful blossoms. Apple..in part...changed that.
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#4
meridannight Wrote:quality over quantity.
hype .
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#5
funny coincidence, i just saw a similar kind of a presentation:
how big is samsung?
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#6
mrex Wrote:hype .

nope .
''Do I look civilized to you?''
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#7
Apple is HUGE. I love it though. Wink
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#8
to each their own. some are fond of apple, some are not.
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