Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization

je ne sais quoi writes "Today Apple surpassed Microsoft in market capitalization, a metric of the perceived worth of a company. At around 2:30 pm EDT, the total number of Apple shares were worth $227 billion, whereas Microsoft's were worth $226 billion. Both companies' stocks ended the day in the red, and have dropped in value since the Greek crisis began, but Apple's share price has been falling less quickly. Of American companies, only Exxon-Mobil has a higher market cap at this point at $278 billion. According to the article: 'This changing of the guard caps one of the most stunning turnarounds in business history, as Apple had been given up for dead only a decade earlier. But the rapidly rising value attached to Apple by investors also heralds a cultural shift: Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology.'"

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[pandrijeczko]

After I use the camera to edit ...because NOTHING beats editing a photo on a 3" camera screen...

and post the pictures to the web

Huh! Would you credit it? And there's boring old me storing my photos safe in my home on hard disks and USB memory sticks...

the picture frame takes the little memory thingie right out of the camera

Ah, okay, so in order to successfully edit and transfer photos in your world, you also need to purchase a picture frame. Okay, do carry on...

the printer lets me copy them to another memory thingie

Okay, gotcha. So you need *TWO* memory thingies whereas I only need the one of them in the camera that stays in the camera because I have a USB port and cable for use by the camera...

the IPad plays music while I do the other 3 things

Yep, my £99 mini CD hifi sat on my desk also plays music, as do any of my laptops, desktops or netbooks in my immediate vicinity...

the big screen TV is hooked up to an Apple TV it plays music through my stereo and puts the movies on the TV the XBOX takes care of the games.

My Shuttle PC beneath my TV that has a £40 TV card in it acts as a MythTV PVR on FreeSat, but it also plays games, runs an Office suite, acts as a media player, lets me surf the Internet and write emails, etc. etc. But is this relevant?

The PS3 plays the rest of the high end games and plays Blue Ray and the Wii is the exercise unit and also streams Netflix

Like I said, is this really relevant? If it is, then let me tell you about my fridge...

With this arrangement at my house and an IPad at the parents (they hardly ever play games or stream movies) I don't have to go over the their house and fix their stupid Windows piece of crap that always falls off the network, gets a virus/malware or is being crashed by Flash!

WHOOSH!! That's the sound of your anti-Windows comments going straight over the head of a *primarily Linux user* like me. But I do use XP and never had it fall off a network (unless the network or an IP address was maybe configured wrongly) and Flash never appears to have crashed it - made it chug a little occasionally but that's better than not being able to play any Flash... whoops, sorry, a bit below the belt, that one...

Yes, the very infrequent piece of malware that I need to fix but not enough to make me such an unhappy person that I wouldn't help friends or relatives fixing their PCs.