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Apple Named World's Most Valuable Brand Despite Recent Slowdown
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Because up until recently, they were called "Google," and old habits are hard to break? Apple was never called "Apple Macintosh," so your comparison doesn't really apply. Case in point, there's a gas station up the street called "Holiday." Up until two years ago, it was called "Mapco." Force of habit, I still call it Mapco, and everyone but folks that are new to town know exactly what I'm talking about.
This chart must be completely wrong because Donald Trump isn't on it! #makedonalddrumphagain
Apple has been named the world's most valuable brand in 2016, according to the latest Forbes rankings, despite posting its first negative-growth quarter since 2003 with declining sales across its iPhone, iPad, and Mac product lines.
Apple's recent slowdown was not enough to prevent the company from securing the number one position in the list for the sixth consecutive year, ahead of rivals Google and Microsoft. Forbes placed Apple's brand value at $154.1 billion, up 6-percent from 2015 and nearly double Google's value of $82.5 billion.
Coca-Cola, Facebook, Toyota, IBM, Disney, McDonald's, GE, Samsung, Amazon, AT&T, BMW, and Cisco rounded out the top fifteen. Apple Watch fashion partner Hermès ranked 48th on the list. Other notable companies listed include Intel (17th), Verizon (21st), HP (38th), Sony (76th), Netflix (79th), and T-Mobile (93rd).
Apple remains the world's most valuable company with a market cap of over $510 billion, despite its stock being down around 30-percent from May 2015 highs. Google parent company Alphabet trails closely behind, and briefly surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company in February.
Apple also topped Interbrand's most valuable brand list in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Update: AAPL is down nearly 3 percent in trading today, resulting in Google parent company Alphabet's market cap once again briefly surpassing Apple's. The two companies will likely continue to trade positions until the volatility settles.
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Apple has been named the world's most valuable brand in 2016, according to the latest Forbes rankings, despite posting its first negative-growth quarter since 2003 with declining sales across its iPhone, iPad, and Mac product lines.
Apple's recent slowdown was not enough to prevent the company from securing the number one position in the list for the sixth consecutive year, ahead of rivals Google and Microsoft. Forbes placed Apple's brand value at $154.1 billion, up 6-percent from 2015 and nearly double Google's value of $82.5 billion.
Coca-Cola, Facebook, Toyota, IBM, Disney, McDonald's, GE, Samsung, Amazon, AT&T, BMW, and Cisco rounded out the top fifteen. Apple Watch fashion partner Hermès ranked 48th on the list. Other notable companies listed include Intel (17th), Verizon (21st), HP (38th), Sony (76th), Netflix (79th), and T-Mobile (93rd).
Apple remains the world's most valuable company with a market cap of over $510 billion, despite its stock being down around 30-percent from May 2015 highs. Google parent company Alphabet trails closely behind, and briefly surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company in February.
Apple also topped Interbrand's most valuable brand list in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Update: AAPL is down nearly 3 percent in trading today, resulting in Google parent company Alphabet's market cap once again briefly surpassing Apple's. The two companies will likely continue to trade positions until the volatility settles.
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If apple has another significant drop almost certainly when the iPhone 7 is released as nothing new will really be shown. Then apple would be my number one investment stock at that time. If car rumours are true they are likely to double their current value in the next 5-10 years and iPhone 7 might mark it's lowest point. I still think ironically bitcoin is the best investment stock around and i'm not even some mad stocks guy but some of this tech is gonna blow over the next few years.
I know this comment makes me seem like a nutter.
I know this comment makes me seem like a nutter.
These three words:
"Apple is doomed"
Are so powerful, they cause deep emotional pain and very strong reactions from a surprisingly large number of devotees here in the forum. Acting as though Apple is a loved human being, a family member, the hurt feelings are very apparent.
It's this highly devoted army of people who buy anything Apple at any price, that keeps the Cupertino Co fat and happy. Amazing indeed.
"Apple is doomed"
Are so powerful, they cause deep emotional pain and very strong reactions from a surprisingly large number of devotees here in the forum. Acting as though Apple is a loved human being, a family member, the hurt feelings are very apparent.
It's this highly devoted army of people who buy anything Apple at any price, that keeps the Cupertino Co fat and happy. Amazing indeed.
really? .. I mean for tech things, wouldn't you need to hire people with technical skills rather than children? .. I can see children collecting fruits or seeds for a body shop scrub or something .. but this is major high-tech! ..
[doublepost=1463303916][/doublepost]I seriously doubt that!
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over-priced junk? .. are you kidding me? .. no one's forcing you to buy their products .. yet, you have quite a few of them ..
I like Apple because of Mac OS X .. so I use their laptops .. I am not really a tablet person .. and I don't like the iPhone .. so this is not coming from an Apple "fan boy" .. but, seriously, you have to give them credit .. Apple has, in the past 10 years or so, changed the way we use phones .. (who would've imagined a touch screen mobile phone that is practically half a computer, 10 or 15 years ago?) .. they have changed the way we use interact with the web .. no one else came up with a tablet type thing that you could do a whole bunch of stuff on .. except for those wacom tracing/drawing things .. the tablet is how A LOT of people consume the web .. and they have raised the bar/standard on notebook quality .. were there ever all-aluminium laptop before? .. laptops used to be bulky and fragile .. the next generation will never know what a non touch-screen phone was .. they (i.e. Apple) have gotten more and more people using computers .. (well, Apple and "Facebook") ..
Have you ever come across the word "sarcasm" before? It was quite obvious I was mocking the moaners by re-enacting a (slightly) extreme version of them.
There a dozens of reports about the working conditions at iPhone factories in China. Here's one:
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the eerie deserted dorms where Apple iPhone workers lived eight to a room, showered in groups of 20 and even PAID for the privilege
- Sprawling dormitory complex outside Shanghai housed workers who spend 12 hours a day making Apple products
- Eerie images show austere eight and 12-bed rooms and filthy 'bathrooms' where workers used communal showers
- Workers operated water taps by pedalling and squatting toilet cubicles positioned over open sewerage drains
- Dorms can house 6,000 workers at a time but were abandoned hurriedly, with mementos left behind
- Impoverished men and women from countryside work 12-hour shifts for £250 a month and pay £16 to live in dorms
- irty dormitories where Apple's iPhone workers lived 'like animals' are revealed
PUBLISHED: 16:12, 11 May 2016 | UPDATED: 13:28, 12 May 2016
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Apple-s-iPhone-workers-live-like-animals.html