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Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's
Lawrence Person writes "Mac Daily News was one of many Apple-followers to note that Apple Inc.'s market capitalization exceeded Google today. That means that the combined value of all Apple's outstanding shares of stock exceeded the combined value of all Google's outstanding shares of stock. Apple's stock is worth $157 billion and change vs. Google's $156 billion. Other companies Apple has surpassed in market cap include Cisco, HP, and Intel. Also, Apple is now worth 3 times the value of Dell Computer, despite Dell's founder and CEO declaring over a decade ago that if he ran Apple, he'd 'shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.'"
Mac products are great value nowadays (for me, at least), but we already know that there are Apple fanboys who would pay twice the price for half the product, just because it comes from Apple. Shares are no different - people invest in attractive companies, or companies with a cult following. Ford, GM, Playboy, Google ... lots of people buy shares at a higher price because they like the company, and it tickles their ego to have a piece of the pie. Sometimes they are right.
That's because they are retarded.
(I don't need to post as anonymous coward, *care* about how mac fanboys moderate me.)
I own a macbook pro but I'm not happy with the purchase and was more or less forced to buy it since I had paid for the ADC student membership to get it cheaper anyway. But then this edition had the same retarded 128MB of VRAM and they still have shitty screens, not to mention ridiculously overpriced and ran hot as hell.
I don't think it's right to say buy an HP and install OS X on it but you sure as hell get a much better product for your money.
Apple only spends $292 on R&D? No wonder all their shit is overpriced plastic crap!
Horns are really just a broken halo.
Oh yea, and can actually play decent games on my under $1k pc. Solid games, like cod4, crysis, etc. F apple.
Horns are really just a broken halo.
Oh yea, and their new iPhone is a great toy, nice fun! But in the work world where I have a job to do - F the iPhone. It's a great fun toy - but fails to do important stuff, you know, like handle phone calls well. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097000494697.htm
Horns are really just a broken halo.
Who else will mod you down for merely suggesting buying a product NOT made by Apple.
Sacrilege! Blasphemy! Madness!
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
"Most of their software stack is open."
Most of their software stack is a mix of open and closed.
"Only the OS UI and non-OS applications are closed."
Define "OS UI" and "non-OS applications".
"It's slightly less secure than the average Linux distro, slightly more secure than Vista, and *radically* more secure than XP"
It's not even close to as secure as Vista, and probably on par with XP SP2. The number of exploits demonstrating that is artificially low because the target base is lower.
I've always hated Apple. One mouse button and a crappy early OS turned me off for life.
OK. I don't normally swear on /., but this is bullshit.
First, the $2500 MacBook Pro you price has a 512MB video card, an option that is not available on any of the Dell Studio series. You should be comparing to the $2000 Macbook Pro, which has the 256MB video card.
And once you include things like Wireless-N to match the Mac and the Ultimate version of Vista to match OS X, it becomes less of a blowout. And then you have to match the software bundle, etc. And most Mac users don't buy RAM from Apple, since you can get it much cheaper from third party vendors. And then you end up paying more to Dell for a backlit keyboard, camera, etc. And then there's things like Magsafe and so on.
Worse, you are comparing the low to mid range Studio series against the high end Macbook Pro, when you should be at least comparing the XPS series, or more appropriately the Pro class laptops that Dell sells. These are more expensive because they have better components and aren't made on the cheap.
I don't doubt that you can buy an equivalent Dell for slightly cheaper than a Macbook Pro (a few hundred dollars difference). But dishonest exaggerations like yours are just stupid.
"by that I mean people who don't sit on slashdot all day wondering why everyone else isn't building robots" DECS