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    BrtStlndHamilton Nolan
    6/02/15 3:01pm

    Them flat computers aren’t that profitable. It’s all the iPhone... and its sweet, juicy, fat margin, brought to you by the indentured servants at Foxconn.

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      meeooumboodogfaceinthebananapatchBrtStlnd
      6/02/15 3:08pm

      And all the fanboys and girls who are willing to shell out a thousand bucks every year or two for the latest and greatest (disappointment).

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      Cam/ronBrtStlnd
      6/02/15 3:09pm

      It’s amazing how fast the iPod became a virtual non-entity.

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    Medieval KnievelHamilton Nolan
    6/02/15 3:09pm
    • 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.

    These two are actually quite unimpressive.

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      Hamilton NolanMedieval Knievel
      6/02/15 3:11pm

      Hey man—that’s hurtful

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      Sean BrodyMedieval Knievel
      6/02/15 3:11pm

      This one got me

      • 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.

      Fuck, that is some dollars.

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    FauxhemianRhapshodyHamilton Nolan
    6/02/15 3:10pm

    For now ...

    If you could go back in time and tell your great-grandparents that Woolworth or Montgomery Ward wouldn't exist in a few decades, they would think that you were crazy.

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      JonattonYeahFauxhemianRhapshody
      6/02/15 3:14pm

      But things are different now.

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      Cam/ronFauxhemianRhapshody
      6/02/15 3:15pm

      Hell, if you went back to 1995 and told everyone that Circuit City, CompUSA, the Good Guys, and Borders wouldn’t exist in 20 years due to the Internet they’d think you’re a schmuck.

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    Don'tPokeTheWhereHamilton Nolan
    6/02/15 3:09pm

    At this point Apple’s cash mountain may end up generating more interest than all the other stuff generates profits. Which I guess is a good thing long term for the company.

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      tehGnomeArmyDon'tPokeTheWhere
      6/02/15 3:42pm

      They should become a bank.

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      Resolute BlueDon'tPokeTheWhere
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    TaternutsAnonHamilton Nolan
    6/02/15 3:12pm

    More amazingly, you could make a reasonable argument that Apple is undervalued.

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      SetteOttoTaternutsAnon
      6/02/15 3:17pm

      Carl Icahn thinks so.

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      Don'tPokeTheWhereTaternutsAnon
      6/02/15 3:19pm

      With what measure?

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    Don'tPokeTheWhereHamilton Nolan
    6/02/15 3:21pm

    Apple is doing well now but given how poorly they’ve done in the past, it is likely history will repeat itself. They’ve ceased to be a computer manufacturer and become a consumer electronics vendor, but with an amazing PR machine. The thing about them that makes me a little queasy is how few legs this stool has, and how relatively easy one or two could fail.

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      awalawal3Don'tPokeTheWhere
      6/02/15 3:42pm

      Apple trades on growth, and growth requires innovation.

      It appears that most of the innovation left the building with Steve Jobs.

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      Don'tPokeTheWhereawalawal3
      6/02/15 3:45pm

      I think that’s inaccurate. Jobs wasn’t contributing that much in his later years, between his crackpot theories on curing his own cancer and his own growing (always present) megalomania. He was never the innovator, he was the PR guy.

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    GumboHamilton Nolan
    6/02/15 3:16pm

    This only holds up because Apple keeps everything in that one metaphorical basket.

    For example, Samsung as a whole absolutely dwarfs Apple and nearly every other company on the planet. They do everything from those smartphones and tablets people love to hate, to TVs and appliances, to several of the tallest buildings in the world, countless hardware components for other companies - including Apple, an entire city in Korea, some of the biggest baddest ships on the sea, etc. But the various branches are counted as separate entities merely under the same brand umbrella. So like many other tech giants, they don’t brag about this type of awfully selective figure.

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      BrtStlndGumbo
      6/02/15 3:25pm

      What you say about Samsung is not true. They’re worth about ~$200M USD... so less than 1/3rd of Apple’s current value. We’re talking about market cap here.

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      GumboBrtStlnd
      6/02/15 3:38pm

      What I’m saying is true. You just missed my point.

      Without limiting it to the market cap of one particular part of Samsung, everything under the name dwarfs everything under the Apple name.

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    Rom RombertsHamilton Nolan
    6/02/15 3:17pm

    What if I told you that you could have a product so small it could fit in your mouth? What if I told you that computers held between your tongue and the roof of your mouth can operate at very fast speeds? Speeds so fast it would make you wonder, hey can it really be that fast? What if I told you that the donut you are holding is a satellite? What if I told you that your dog has been cheating on you with Al Roker? What if I gave you a box of jelly and told you it was going to change the world? What if I changed the world so that, instead of wearing hats on our heads, we wore phones? What if our phones were pants?

    At Apple, we’re changing the world and doing lots of stuff. Eat your computers. Wear your satellite donuts on your head. Divorce your dog. It’s all possible because nothing is impossible. Except saving for a down payment on an Apple iHouse, which is very small and very expensive and will also change the world.

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      sour duckHamilton Nolan
      6/02/15 3:18pm

      I read that Apple has something like $128 billion just sitting in a bank. They have so much money it just collects dust (and interest).

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        Don'tPokeTheWheresour duck
        6/02/15 3:24pm

        Money doesn’t collect dust, that’s for the shit your grandma bought thinking Hummels would appreciate.

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        RobNYCDon'tPokeTheWhere
        6/02/15 3:59pm

        Ugh, haven’t we all been to someone’s house who collected that shit?

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      Cam/ronHamilton Nolan
      6/02/15 3:25pm

      I recall Wired’s infamous cover when Apple was on its knees 18 years ago:

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