In my opinion, Apple is extraordinarily overvalued. If Apple were to disappear tomorrow, this would have far less of an impact on the world than if Amazon (& all subsidiaries), Alphabet (& all subsidiaries), Meta (& all subsidiaries) were all to simultaneously vanish.
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Apple Briefly Exceeded Combined Market Value of Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta This Week
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If you only had to add ONE additional zero, I’d say you’re still pretty well offAnd I briefly surpassed them with my funny money until I realized that I added one additional 0 to my funny money checkbook
This company is incredible. Apple never misses. Kudos to Tom Cook and the team. It’s very well-managed for such a large organizatio.
It's a pretty black and white statement to suggest Apple's stance on privacy is bullsh*t just because it isn't draconian and absolute.
Could you tell me which major consumer tech company is more pro-privacy than Apple? Would seriously love to know.
I remember back in 1996 when I told my aunt, who was then a financial planner, that I wanted to take a chunk of my money that was invested in mutual funds and bonds and buy Apple stock. She said I was crazy and that Apple would probably be bankrupt within a year, if not sooner. Well, at that time, I could have bought one share for 18 cents (accounting for stock splits, etc.). If I had just invested $1,000 in Apple at that time, it would be worth approximately $750,000 today. Oops. Needless to say, I never let her forget that she advised me NOT to buy company stock just because I like a particular company. I kept telling her, "But they have GREAT products! It's just that most people don't get it yet!!" Little did I know they would bring Steve Jobs back within a year and he would perform the greatest corporate turnaround ever.
Only if I could use that funny money to buy things, hahaIf you only had to add ONE additional zero, I’d say you’re still pretty well off
The problem with this line of thinking is forgetting that these kids will eventually have to start paying for their own stuff instead of mommy and daddy. When the current crop of kids who don’t want to work gets older, they won’t be buying iPhones (unfortunately)!
If your government disappeared tomorrow, it would have several orders of magnitude more impact than all those companies put together. So, smile when you pay your taxes!
They don't make the profits that Apple does. As a percentage of profits, they're fairly comparable.
Which are two different things, IMO.
Take Twitter for example. It apparently has such a huge impact on the flow of information around of the world, yet struggles to turn a profit and stay afloat. This incongruence is most likely due to Twitter's inability to properly monetise its hundreds of millions of users around the world (compared to say, Facebook).
You probably meant to say "overrated".
A few tech companies are not long for this world. And Facebook can try and hide its name in shame, but it can't hide from the Grimm reaper. And for a company to blow a monopoly as bad as Intel blew theirs with incompetence and complacency, it deserves to die. Now Intel is shamelessly lobbying the government to help fund their incompetence.
There is a tech crash coming. A slow motion crash that has been obvious for over a decade. Facebook and Intel have been dead companies walking for over a decade.
Amazon and Google will be fine. Both offer services that we all need and love whether we like to admit it or not. They are not going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
Apple is doing well today, but it has to work the hardest to stay on top. They are operating in a fickle space. If they drop the ball it's game over. Without the hard work of Apple Silicon, the Mac would have been toast. iPhones would have been toast. It has to work the hardest to please an ever changing fickle consumer that can pay far less for competing products. Apple consumers are fickle consumers. I am a fickle consumer. I personally only bought my first Mac because I knew how good the iPad Pro's were. There is no way I would have ever bought an Intel Mac. There have always been far better computers for far less money. Apple has to work to get our money. Google and Amazon just have to exist.
There is a tech crash coming. A slow motion crash that has been obvious for over a decade. Facebook and Intel have been dead companies walking for over a decade.
Amazon and Google will be fine. Both offer services that we all need and love whether we like to admit it or not. They are not going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
Apple is doing well today, but it has to work the hardest to stay on top. They are operating in a fickle space. If they drop the ball it's game over. Without the hard work of Apple Silicon, the Mac would have been toast. iPhones would have been toast. It has to work the hardest to please an ever changing fickle consumer that can pay far less for competing products. Apple consumers are fickle consumers. I am a fickle consumer. I personally only bought my first Mac because I knew how good the iPad Pro's were. There is no way I would have ever bought an Intel Mac. There have always been far better computers for far less money. Apple has to work to get our money. Google and Amazon just have to exist.
Not yet … that day is coming though … the EU and AppStore / USBC mandates is just the start towards open competition, which will eventually lead to hardware … batteries may be the pivotal hardware component that ushers this era in …
I did indeed mean overvalued as stock price is moved by investor confidence rather than any single financial metric
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I've got no idea where the connection is, but the closest equivalent of a government stock exchange would be the foreign exchange market
Huh, Apple is worth 20 times as much as it would cost to prevent the climate hellscape indefinitely. Too bad that’s a matter of transitioning the entire World and not just about cash.