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Apple Tops 'World's Most Admired Company' List for 14th Consecutive Year

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Apple continues to dominate Fortune's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" for 2021, taking the top spot for the 14th consecutive year.

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Technology and entertainment held the top four rankings, with Amazon claiming second place, followed by Microsoft in third, and Disney in fourth.

After a year in which humanity leaned more heavily than ever on tech giants—to connect, entertain, and even feed us in a time of isolation — it's fitting that Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft hold the top three spots in Fortune's ranking of corporate reputation. Apple, the premier personal-tech provider, tops the roster for the 14th year in a row, based on our poll of some 3,800 corporate executives, directors, and analysts.
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Elsewhere, Netflix returned to the top ten, placing ninth, and Walmart and Target earned their highest rankings since 2011 and 2008. Nvidia and PayPal also earned a place in the top 50 for the first time.

The 50 companies selected for the 2021 Fortune rankings were narrowed down from an initial list of the 1,000 largest companies in the U.S. ranked by revenue and 500 non-U.S. companies from Fortune's Global 500 database with revenues of $10 billion or more.

Management consulting firm Korn Ferry then asked executives, directors, and analysts to rate companies in their own industry based on nine criteria, from investment value and quality of management and products to social responsibility and ability to attract talent, and select the ten companies they admired most.

While the result is not indicative of financial performance, the list does provide an interesting insight into how some of the world's best-known companies are perceived relative to each other.

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SURPRISE!🍎💪 not really..wonder which company was #1 15 years ago. Sorry I didn’t read the whole article. Meanwhile Mark Zukerberg’s Facebook rank #1 overrated..it’s true. Hey Mark if you’re read this congratulations you finally BEAT Apple at something😆
 
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DinkThifferent said:
No surprise here! Apple is still setting the trend.

✅Multitouch
✅Touch ID
✅Removing DVD-drives in Macbook Airs
✅FaceID
✅Removal headphone jack
✅Wireless headphones
✅Tablets
✅Removal charger

and the list goes on.
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Apple did Multitouch 14 years ago, Touch ID 8 years ago, removed DVD drives from the Air 13 years ago, FaceID and wireless headphones were both done a decade before Apple added it, the iPad is 11 years old, and Apple removed the charger on the Apple Watch 6 years ago.

So Apple's newest innovation on your list is 6 years old. That in no way justifies Apple being at the top of the list today. Also of note - almost that entire list was done by Steve Jobs, not Tim Cook.
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
Apple did Multitouch 14 years ago, Touch ID 8 years ago, removed DVD drives from the Air 13 years ago, FaceID and wireless headphones were both done a decade before Apple added it, the iPad is 11 years old, and Apple removed the charger on the Apple Watch 6 years ago.

So Apple's newest innovation on your list is 6 years old. That in no way justifies Apple being at the top of the list today. Also of note - almost that entire list was done by Steve Jobs, not Tim Cook.
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Ah so you have to come up with new innovations and inventions every year to be relevant?

Look at all the "innovations" Samsung introduces and then cancels after one or two iterations. Like scrolling with your eyes, sharing files by tapping phones to each other or a dedicated bixby button! Great innovations that nobody uses.
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
Apple did Multitouch 14 years ago, Touch ID 8 years ago, removed DVD drives from the Air 13 years ago, FaceID and wireless headphones were both done a decade before Apple added it, the iPad is 11 years old, and Apple removed the charger on the Apple Watch 6 years ago.

So Apple's newest innovation on your list is 6 years old. That in no way justifies Apple being at the top of the list today. Also of note - almost that entire list was done by Steve Jobs, not Tim Cook.
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No. Tim Cook makes watch bands.
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
Apple did Multitouch 14 years ago, Touch ID 8 years ago, removed DVD drives from the Air 13 years ago, FaceID and wireless headphones were both done a decade before Apple added it, the iPad is 11 years old, and Apple removed the charger on the Apple Watch 6 years ago.

So Apple's newest innovation on your list is 6 years old. That in no way justifies Apple being at the top of the list today. Also of note - almost that entire list was done by Steve Jobs, not Tim Cook.
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And boy have we patented it..
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Apple did Multitouch 14 years ago, Touch ID 8 years ago, removed DVD drives from the Air 13 years ago, FaceID and wireless headphones were both done a decade before Apple added it, the iPad is 11 years old, and Apple removed the charger on the Apple Watch 6 years ago.

So Apple's newest innovation on your list is 6 years old. That in no way justifies Apple being at the top of the list today. Also of note - almost that entire list was done by Steve Jobs, not Tim Cook.
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No, FaceID was not done a decade before Apple added it, in fact it wasn't done until well, FaceID...nor were true wireless headphones. Apple's newest innovation would be moving their PCs to ARM seemlessly, which literally just happened. Perhaps you forget what the first USB C device was? Ever heard of CarPlay and Wireless CarPlay? Voice assistants took off because of Siri. 120 Hz screens in the iPad Pro? Every single iteration of Apple's ARM chipsets are leaps ahead of everyone else. I imagine you aren't aware of what Apple Pay did for contactless payments.
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
Apple did Multitouch 14 years ago, Touch ID 8 years ago, removed DVD drives from the Air 13 years ago, FaceID and wireless headphones were both done a decade before Apple added it, the iPad is 11 years old, and Apple removed the charger on the Apple Watch 6 years ago.

So Apple's newest innovation on your list is 6 years old. That in no way justifies Apple being at the top of the list today. Also of note - almost that entire list was done by Steve Jobs, not Tim Cook.
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Didnt know faceid, airpods or arm mac were under steve jobs vision
Apple is the best..Tim Cook brought apple as an 2 tril company , steve would never done that because was a visionary, not an accountant
 
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Iconoclysm said:
120 Hz screens in the iPad Pro? Every single iteration of Apple's ARM chipsets are leaps ahead of everyone else. I imagine you aren't aware of what Apple Pay did for contactless payments.
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120hz screens were in monitors for a long time
Maybe you wanted to say promotion, that was the big deal especially in a mobile world with adaptive refresh rate
The rest is on point
But lets not argue with people who cant see what apple did in the last decade, these people , like a lot who is not in tech industry, take all of that for granted
Remmeber how hated was steve when they didnt add flash for ios? Or removed the cd rom from the imac?! Jesus
 
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I'm old. I remember when IBM was on top, and Apple Computer was just a joke. One day, you "young'uns" will remember Apple, Inc as I do of IBM. Corporate culture is little different from the culture of the World Wrestling Federation.
 
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Iconoclysm said:
Ever heard of CarPlay and Wireless CarPlay? Voice assistants took off because of Siri.
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Ever heard of a Tesla? Tesla is to CarPlay what the iPhone is to the ROKR, with a small change that Tesla is older than CarPlay while the ROKR came before the iPhone.

Voice Assistants took off because of Alexa, despite Siri. If it weren't for all of the competitors which are universally considered better than Siri, I don't think people would even know Siri - she'd be as obscure as the Apple voice assistant that predated her (which... that's a good thing to mention. Siri is barely an improvement on Apple's voice assistants that are nearly 2 decades older - the Siri rebranding came a decade ago, but is hardly any different than the original Apple Casper voice assistant from 1992. It's nearly impossible to find mentions of it, but here's an article: http://readmultiplex.com/2017/02/18/in-1992-before-apples-siri-there-was-casper/ )
 
kennyt72 said:
From 52nd place they're just placed in alphabetical order so any "rank" past 51st is meaningless.
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True, but you can also sort by industry ranking. When doing so for motor vehicles X, Tesla rates 6 out of 8, behind BMW, Toyota, Daimler, GM, and Honda, and ahead of Hyundai and VW (assuming groups and not brands for the latter two).

macdos said:
Is this "world" as in the baseball "world" series?
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Not entirely, but definitely US-biased. Out of 332 companies listed, 241 (72.6%) of them are from the US. Otherwise, Japan has 16, Germany has 14, France has 12. The rest of the countries are in the single digits.

The first non-US company doesn't show up until #30 Unilever, followed by 31 Toyota, 33 Accenture, 34 Singapore Airlines, 35 BMW, 46 Nestle, and 49 Samsung (which rounds out the ranked - not alphabetical - portion of the list, which is top 50).

Compared to the overall list, only 13.7% of the top 50 (51 companies, as two are tied for 50th) are based outside the US. Even then, Accenture is really an American company incorporated overseas to take advantage of the tax rules (called a tax inversion), unlike the other companies which are truly non-US.
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
Apple did Multitouch 14 years ago, Touch ID 8 years ago, removed DVD drives from the Air 13 years ago, FaceID and wireless headphones were both done a decade before Apple added it, the iPad is 11 years old, and Apple removed the charger on the Apple Watch 6 years ago.

So Apple's newest innovation on your list is 6 years old. That in no way justifies Apple being at the top of the list today. Also of note - almost that entire list was done by Steve Jobs, not Tim Cook.
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Maybe you didn't read the article? This isn't about products Apple produced (but if you wanna go there the M1 chip alone makes Apple deserve to be on top) it's about Apple being the most admired company. That may also include the fact that they were the first corporation in history to reach a trillion dollar valuation and that is under Tim Cook. That alone is a lot to admire.
 
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