Apple No Longer World's Most Valuable Company

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[citation][nom]otacon72[/nom]Apples haters are the most ignorant group of people I've ever encountered.[/citation]

Hey Pot, this is Kettle, you're black.
 
[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]I would also like to mention that apple was "most valuable" for only a year.Microsoft was "most valuable" for three years..........[/citation]try applying inflation adjusted value, then u'll see nobody come anywhere near John D. Rockefeller's "Standard Oil". Infact Exxon Mobil was part of the standard oil split up. All thanks to US gov trying to split up a company that grow too big at that time
 
[citation][nom]otacon72[/nom]Apples haters are the most ignorant group of people I've ever encountered.[/citation]
Or they just see something you will never be able to... Enjoy your world while you still can.. sooner or later it will no longer exist and all you will have left is the reality the rest of us live in..
 
[citation][nom]sarcasm[/nom]This is great news. Maybe Apple will finally innovate again and not just sell minor upgrades to existing products.[/citation]

You may want to rewrite history but the "Updates" you mention are a bit more.

iOS existed before Android - the touch screen interfaces up thill then were pretty horrible. iPhone and it's ecosystem, for the most part was, revolutionary - This is why We have Google Play and Amazon's App store....

iPad existed before any Android tablet, the Windows tablets were pretty lame...

I'm just wondering why everyone on this forum is so angry, lol

Sent from my Nexus 7
 
[citation][nom]balister[/nom]While their profit was 13%, their overall revenue was flat. Combine that with the fact that they're cannibalizing their own customers (a number of Mac users are no longer getting Macs, but instead getting iPads). So, one part of the company is doing well (iPad) and another is doing bad (Macs). And when you look at the pricing, every Mac user that switches to an iPad is about a $500 to $700 dollar loss.[/citation]

The only reason Mac sales were so bad was because I like many others were holding off for the new range of Macs which didn't ship till late in Q4.
 
[citation][nom]otacon72[/nom]Truth hurts...[/citation]
Yes, we know it does.. Ironic that you make that statement on an article saying something negative about Apple..
but it's OK otacon, time will heal all wounds 😉
 
Apple has been in a bubble for a very long time... it's about time for reality to set in.

Apple produces the latest consumer fad
Exxon produces the energy that keeps the world going.

The relative value of the two companies is a no contest win for Exxon.

IB
 
LMAO, so much 'droid anger...

Impressive... Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well, you have controled your fear. Now release your anger, only your hate can destroy me." - Vader to Luke
 
[citation][nom]sundragon[/nom]LMAO, so much 'droid anger...Impressive... Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well, you have controled your fear. Now release your anger, only your hate can destroy me." - Vader to Luke[/citation]

iHaters live to post on Apple related articles :)
 
To say that Apple hasn't done anything, that their products "suck" and that they haven't been influential is being jealous, ignorant and a hater. Let's get that straight! Take a look at your phone and look at the advancements it has made on a few years. Much thanks to Apple and now everyone is doing a smartphone. 5 years ago, many of us praised the nokia 3310 (black/white screen mind you) and now you can't stand the thing. Sure, it's all part of evolution.
Now having said that, sure we are (and have been for some time) starting to get sick of the Apple's "philosophy". History keep repeating itself. We see smaller and smaller improvements and as always marketed to the usual planet Mars prices (in typical Apple fashion).
Companies like this enjoy EXTREMELY rapid growth on a very short time but because of weak and short-term startegies, the masses soon gets the hang and drops the hype. This leads to great massive drops on the stockmarket prices and that's what we're experiencing today.
 
iphone5 is no longer pretty, that utilizes ugly long screen (ar1.78).
better go back to ar1.5, sales order should come back.
4s have very minor change over 4, that still sell well, because its look was still good.
 
[citation][nom]jdwii[/nom]I like how they come up with reasons for why gas cost so much and then we hear this, Something needs to be done[/citation]
Gas prices will ONLY go down when demand is down, but people keep buying gas guzzling SUV's & sports cars when they don't need them. Stop driving & gas will become UBER cheap.
 
[citation][nom]Madjimms[/nom]Gas prices will ONLY go down when demand is down, but people keep buying gas guzzling SUV's & sports cars when they don't need them. Stop driving & gas will become UBER cheap.[/citation]
Actually it is when the difference between supply and demand is high that prices alter, if demand reduces and supply increases then prices go down, but if supply goes down then prices go up regardless of demand unless the demand drops off to almost nothing. Gas demand NEVER goes down, it only ever increases more slowly. OPEC are good at throttling the supply to the West and ensuring that production is ramped or relaxed to ensure maximum profits and market capitalisation
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So Apple have $100 billion in cash in a hedge fund? Chump change to some Arab oil families. OK they are not private companies like Exxon Mobil, but (for example) Sheik Mansour, (who bought the English soccer team Manchester City) his family have over $500 billion in assets and they are only a few of the hundreds of Arab families that have fingers in lots of pies
 
I'll give credit to Apple where credit is due.
The popularity of smartphones and tablets are due to Apple releasing sleek and functional products.
They weren't revolutionary or groundbreaking, they were just the first to do so at an affordable pricing point with acceptable level of performance.
The tablet pc existed prior to the iPad, it was just too costly, sluggish, ugly and had a terrible battery life.
Smartphones with touch screens existed prior to the iPhone, they too were sluggish, ugly and had terrible battery life.
Apple had a design and minimal OS in place and when hardware costs and battery technology were where they needed to be they swept in with a superior product and dominated those markets.

The problem is however, Apple feels no one should be able to copy or improve on what Apple has already stolen and re-branded as their own. That is why so many hate Apple.
Well, that's why most people hate Apple, I just hate them because 3 Apple products, 3 support nightmares including refusal to fix defective hardware and overcharging me for dated hardware labeled as new and not receiving what I paid for, then accusing me of trying to fraud them when I tried to return said product. They earned my scorn, and I will never buy or fix Apple products again.
But that's besides the point.

Point is, Apple isn't "innovating," everything is a minor upgrade and prices are still at a premium level as if they were still the only player in the game. iPhone and iPad are only getting minor speed bumps with minimal user interface upgrades, it makes alternative products that are cheaper and just as good or better a more attractive proposition.

Any company that would rather let their products stagnate and try to keep others from taking their market share via lawsuits isn't going to stay on top long, you have to keep moving forward, and I'm afraid without Jobs there to see the next big upcoming trend and put the ship on path Apple is just going to keep losing market and keep falling down the list.
 
And Microsoft did what with their massive market dominations (at one point is was 98% of ALL computing devices sold)? ... Windows 8 ... oh yeah that's the ticket to success!

Ballmer is unaware, uneducated, unrealistic, and can barely just add 1+1 -- why is has he remained the CEO at Microsoft?
 
[citation][nom]sundragon[/nom]You may want to rewrite history but the "Updates" you mention are a bit more.iOS existed before Android - the touch screen interfaces up thill then were pretty horrible. iPhone and it's ecosystem, for the most part was, revolutionary - This is why We have Google Play and Amazon's App store....iPad existed before any Android tablet, the Windows tablets were pretty lame... I'm just wondering why everyone on this forum is so angry, lolSent from my Nexus 7[/citation]

And Star Trek, the original show, had tablets too.
 
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