Google Surpasses Apple as World's Most Valuable Company

[djgamble]

well only selling 2 million iPad Pros in the LAUNCH quarter after all the hype Apple gave it last September has to be pretty disappointing. How about they tell us actual iWatch sales.

While Google (oh sorry 'Alphabet' seriously wtf?!?) is bleeding billions on projects like Alphabet Glass and Nest. Their only profitable area is the web search business (which I bundle with analytics, adwords, adsense...etc).

Take that away (e.g. DDG becomes the #1 search engine) and they are TOAST! Apple has heaps of successful products and makes a boot load more cash than 'Alphabet'.

 

[jujufreeze]

Apple will surpass google once again if it starts listening to its customers. The more it goes down the road of:

-make thinner phones with reckless abandon-->less battery life-->make big ugly battery case
-Buy beats-->remove headphone jack -->Give customers less choice and inferior alternative
-Keep 16gb phones, use 5400 rpm hard drives -->higher profit margins, bad for customers good for Apple
-Disable phones repaired by 3rd party vendors--> force customers to use 3x more expensive Apple repair
-Make weird ugly watch with bad battery life and no purpose, make big expensive
pro" ipad with $100 pencil on ios --> why am I excited about apple products anymore
-Make itunes more bloated and a pain to use, make icloud even stranger with questionable functionality
etc.the more apple stocks will nosedive. Steve Jobs had a knack for knowing what customers wanted/needed before we did, now Apple is telling us what we need and making life easier for them rather than us. Get back to grass roots and be the valuable company you once were rather than something Ive dreams up on his next 10 course meal dreaming THIN, THIN, THIN with Tim Cook "This is a great product that is far-out" and fake enthusiasm on lips with his real passion on insanely high profit margins he will gleefully inform his shareholders

Apple has good sales still from Jobs legacy and is now in the milking phase with incremental adjustment. We need revolutionary apple again

 

[AxoNeuron]

While Google (oh sorry 'Alphabet' seriously wtf?!?) is bleeding billions on projects like Alphabet Glass and Nest. Their only profitable area is the web search business (which I bundle with analytics, adwords, adsense...etc).

Take that away (e.g. DDG becomes the #1 search engine) and they are TOAST! Apple has heaps of successful products and makes a boot load more cash than 'Alphabet'.

The problem is that's never going to happen. Ever.

Apple makes nice shiny things. But Google succeeds as a search engine because it knows more about the world. The more people use it, the more knowledgeable they become. For Google, success begets more success. That's a very rare pattern but it is very strong and self-reinforcing. The longer Google remains the top dog at the search game, the more entrenched it will become.

At this point there's really not much anyone can do to beat them.

But Apple is just one failed launch away from utter disaster. The Titans of the phone industry today are the blackberries of tomorrow. Apple has been hijacked by a bunch of clueless bean counter MBA's and their days are numbered. Apple's position is much shakier than Google's. These days, I'm just not seeing many things about iOS that make it much more compelling to people than Android. Android has really caught up and it's pretty damned good now. But it doesn't really matter, Android could completely fail tomorrow and it wouldn't really hurt Google, but with Apple it's a very different story.

 

[Robstevo]

Google and apple are both massive massive companies , who make huge amounts of profit.

Saying either company is one step away from complete meltdown is completely ridiculous and idiotic. If anything it will take a good 4 or 5 years for things to Go completely bad for either company.

But they have enough talent and cash to nip things on the hunt quickly.

 

[Uofmtiger]

Apple will surpass google once again if it starts....

It didn't make headlines, but Apple was back to #1 almost as soon as the "ink dried" on these articles. So I guess the actual thing they needed to do was just sit back and wait a few hours.

Maybe you should write up something that Google needs to do to address their plummeting stock price? Or maybe, it is just fluctuation in a volatile stock market?

 

[Radon87000]

It didn't make headlines, but Apple was back to #1 almost as soon as the "ink dried" on these articles. So I guess the actual thing they needed to do was just sit back and wait a few hours.

Maybe you should write up something that Google needs to do to address their plummeting stock price? Or maybe, it is just fluctuation in a volatile stock market?

Just wait for the next quarter results.Alphabet will wipe the floor with Apple's market cap

 

[Rogifan]

Apple is basically flat this morning while the FANG stocks are getting crushed again: Google down 2.5%, Facebook and Amazon down 4.5% and Netflix down 2%. Funny how after Apple's earnings report it was all doom, doom, doom. Yet its competitors (many of the ones up big last year) are getting hit even harder.

 

[Tinmania]

It's no surprise that the other way isn't news. One is a novel event, the other is not.

It's like when it snows in Florida. That's newsworthy (at least the first time each year). However, the regular weather coming back isn't news 🙂

Except that in this case, "snow" may become the norm. 😉



Mike

 

[djgamble]

The problem is that's never going to happen. Ever.

I agree to an extent (and am definitely not predicting Google's demise). However - for example - nobody in Japan uses Google, it's all Yahoo. A growing number of tech/privacy-savvy people are using DDG. You can't patent a search engine, so there's nothing stopping a new startup from jumping in and making a search engine that is technically better.

As a lawyer and academic, I actually prefer DDG results because it doesn't 'bubble' me. There's a logical reason why some do not want 'smarter' searches... especially when they come at the cost of your privacy (which is becoming increasingly important).

As I said... not spelling doom and gloom for Google. However, they are a bit like Kodak. Perfect model until film gets re-imagined. We can't imagine the next big thing in search engine technology yet because it's yet to happen. It's probably not DDG (although it's a neat idea and I use it). But it's the right kind of thinking... no company is immune from change.

I mean... what's Google gonna do if EVERYBODY used an ad blocker on their browser? Or if law was passed requiring routers to have hard-coded ad blockers and tracker blockers for privacy purposes? There goes Google's sole source of income...

 

[cycomiko]

Nope

Great answer. Try getting an iphone with absolutely no oil.

Good luck with that.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

If this was true I would be rich, weather forecasts are surprisingly reliable. If people knew with 95% reliability which stocks would go up and down each day, there would be no stock market.

Reliable?

I've never come across an accurate weather forecast. I don't expect to in my lifetime.

 

[cfedu]

Reliable?

I've never come across an accurate weather forecast. I don't expect to in my lifetime.

I work as a pilot, if weather forecasts were not accurate most of the time, there would be no commercial aviation industry. If you are talking about long term forecasts I would agree, but short term forecast are all you really need in aviation or the stock market. If I had a 95% certainty of which stocks will go up and down tomorrow, I would be the world's richest person.

 

[Tinmania]

Yea the old "inaccurate as weather forecasts" cliche is really getting old. It's not 1972 and things have progressed immensely.

That said aviation benefits greatly from crowdsourcing, or perhaps that should be "cloud" sourcing 🙂 which is also very important.



Mike

 

[Toltepeceno]

While Google (oh sorry 'Alphabet' seriously wtf?!?) is bleeding billions on projects like Alphabet Glass and Nest. Their only profitable area is the web search business (which I bundle with analytics, adwords, adsense...etc).

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Whats the point? They are making billions per quarter figuring in the bleeding so its moot.