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How many people remember Michael Dell's famous 1997 quote when asked what he'd do to fix Apple?
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," [^]
At the closing bell today Apple's market capitalization is $774.7 billion. That's right folks, bigger than Microsoft ($362.2B) and Google ($362B)... combined! Probably enough left over to buy Dell.
Regardless of how you feel about Apple products you have to admit that AAPL has been an amazing stock since 1997.
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That's not really how market capitalization works. I'll just give it to you, because I don't feel like arguing about it.
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Don't worry - I know what a market cap means. I was just being a bit overzealous...
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And then Microsoft stepped in and saved their ass!
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Too bad they didn't keep the stock - it would be worth about $30B today!
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Crazy, huh?
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Back then, the popularity of Win '95 had all but killed apple. It was money from microsoft that saved them.
And their rise back to solvency has had precious little to do with computers, but more with gadgets that have computer chips in them -- first the ipod, then the iphone and the ipad -- and with the money from the app store/itunes.
I wouldn't be surprised if they've paid out more in produce placement of their computers than they've made from them, even with their ridiculously high profit margins.
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I just knew people wouldn't be able to put their hatred of Apple away long enough to appreciate AAPL.
Let it go, man. Let it go. 
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WTF are you talking about?
I don't hate apple, I just have no respect for them -- and the day that money becomes the measure for identifying something's true worth is the day when we deserve a really big solar flare.
Drug dealers have huge profit margins, too. That doesn't mean they have a superior product.
Or are you saying that I should celebrate the money they make?
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Never mind. I was just appreciating the stock's performance - I have no desire to get into a discussion about capitalism or drug dealers.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: capitalism or drug dealers
See how well those things go together in a sentence?
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Not nearly as well as socialism and communism. 
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You obviously don't understand either word.
But that's not surprising, the amount of capitalist indoctrination and propaganda you appear to have been subjected to.
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Less so than your lack of knowledge of terms that you just drop into discussion, apparently.
Idiots who call themselves communists and idiots who call themselves socialist are just as ready to kill each other as idiots who call themselves capitalist, muslim, christian, or nihilist.
Only idiots who have been indoctrinated into one of the other groups of idiots believe that communism and socialism are in any way allied.
All any of the groups of idiots do is invent bollocks that states that their brand of idiocy is superior to all the other idiots' idiocies.
Your telling me that capitalistic gains are marvellous falls on ears that are just as deaf to idiots who tell me I should worship one African god or another.
Just keep your money-based religion out of the Lounge, eh? The rule is there for a reason.
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You may want to see a therapist, pal. You obviously have some serious issues that need to be worked out.
Good luck. 
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Just my way of letting the trolls know that bothering me is too much trouble.
Off you go, then. Go try to annoy someone else.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Go try to annoy someone else.
Huh? You're the one who responded to my original post crying about Apple's choice of products and product placement. Then you went off on a tangent about the evils of money and drug dealers before finally delivering a diatribe about "idiots" being indoctrinated into the "religions" of various political and economic theories.
By every definition, you're the troll in this "discussion". Maybe its time for a vacation... 
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No, I invited you to step off your capitalist pulpit by reminding you of history, and you decided to insult me.
That is how trolls behave.
I'm sure you'll think twice before doing it again.
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Good grief! 
The first insult in this thread was your snide comment about me being "subjected" to "capitalist indoctrination and propaganda".
Mark_Wallace wrote: I'm sure you'll think twice before doing it again.
I don't plan on reading any more of your posts if that's what you mean... and I'd appreciate it if you didn't respond to any of mine.
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So personally accusing someone of being a "hater" is your very best behaviour?
You just didn't want to be reminded that the capitalist idols you adore had had to be rescued from oblivion, so anyone who mentioned it must obviously be a "hater", mustn't he?
Just like anyone who doesn't worship Allah is a "hater" to the most heavily indoctrinated and deluded followers.
What a charmer you are.
Keep your religion out of the Lounge.
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That means apple could shut up shop and give everyone in the world $100
If it was spread around according to current wealth, it could solve poverty world-wide at a stroke!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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So.... what are we waiting for ?
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