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Microsoft Overtakes Apple as World's Most Valuable Company
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Apple has been buying back stock like there is no tomorrow, so Market cap Is going down as you need much much higher stock price to compensate for total market cap. It will take some more years before the retail investor understands this, but when that happens, the stock will jump to 250+ dollar. The catalyst will be the launch of a new category product like the rumored AR glasses or, but less likely an Apple Car. So if you really want to make money and need to invest today Apple is the cheapest technology stock by far … as some smart analyst say, Apple investment is a longterm play, for a quick buck go to the others, though that is already to late, ones the cloud growth business runs out of steam, the hardware business is where you will see the yearly renewals paying of. I prefer Apple being second or third, it’s much easier to grow from there than being top.
So you believe the earth has infinite resources we can continue to plunder so we can have shiny new gadgets every year to replace last year's shiny new gadget? And I wasn't being literal when I said "we all die." I'm sure you and I will be long dead before the bill well and truly comes due. I suppose for some people, that's good enough. Heck, I might even be one of them. What do I owe those future folks, right?
The other day I got 11.6.1 -- 11.25GB.
A couple days later, I got another 11.6.1, over 2GB.
And I've gotten that last "Device Support Update" at least half a dozen times. It was really weird.
20+ billion in profit, and people state the company didn't meet expectations.
Has everyone forgotten how much 20 billion dollars is?
Has everyone forgotten how much 20 billion dollars is?
When Windows ME came out I was so happy to upgrade to it. I hadn't been out living on my own very long, and I finally moved somewhere that had DSL and could game with low pings for the first time ever, but my stupid DSL modem was so awful with Windows 98SE.
So, I tried Linux (Mandrake 8, Red Hat something, SuSE). I compiled an experimental kernel and got the modem to more or less work, but of course couldn't play my games.
Finally, I "upgraded" to Windows ME and ... if the machine didn't blue screen on every startup, my modem wouldn't work. Back then, blue screens were informational, so you could clear them and just keep going. But there was a period of several months where if I booted my computer and it didn't blue screen I'd just immediately reboot, because it hadn't detected the modem, crashed, hard, and recovered, thus allowing my DSL to work.
Congratulations to Microsoft. But I think apple will soon be back as number one
The hardware + software model of business doesn’t work for Microsoft.Apple this year brings the best rock solid devices and microsoft brings an windows 10.5 with a surface double laptop studio mess and takes the first place)
Now you know how Wall Street analysts and experts think
But they do really well on their cloud and business end, and are on an excellent path to provide the de facto cross platform office and development environments.
I would assume that these are their big income sources.
I don’t care about the office stuff, but as a developer I really like .Net Core, Typescript, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. And while Azure is terrible in terms of UX, it allows me to do things that I would have a hard time doing through Apple.
Still, going to buy an M1 Pro machine - because best of both worlds ?
Apple this year brings the best rock solid devices and microsoft brings an windows 10.5 with a surface double laptop studio mess and takes the first place
Now you know how Wall Street analysts and experts think
Awww... poor you.... Another company took Apple's top spot. What a shame! :-\
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So what - this means nothing, companies will jostle their networth positions almost on a daily basis.
Won't affect your enjoyment of Apple's products.
.net core with c sharp is nice language compare to php these day.. but it kinda slow a lot compare nodejs and php. microsoft need to do something to cut some thing..
Makes sense to me, Nadella has focused Microsoft on being more enterprise focused, that’s a stable reliable source of income.
Apple is far, far more consumer focused. Pretty much everything they do is focused towards the end user, which can be fickle depending on trends.
I don’t think they really compete in the same market much anymore. Sure there’s Windows vs MacOS, but those are now secondary focuses for each company.
Microsoft is focused on WSL and acquisition of Github, and things like Windows365.
Apple is focused on Apple Music and Apple TV.
Apple is far, far more consumer focused. Pretty much everything they do is focused towards the end user, which can be fickle depending on trends.
I don’t think they really compete in the same market much anymore. Sure there’s Windows vs MacOS, but those are now secondary focuses for each company.
Microsoft is focused on WSL and acquisition of Github, and things like Windows365.
Apple is focused on Apple Music and Apple TV.
Love'em or hate'em M$'s products holds up the world's tech...that comment made no sense.
Yeah you wouldnt have a job of it wasn't for MSFT. Do you work on a PC, Connected to a network, Office apps, other programs, databases etc...
Dunno Apple warned wall street about a 6biillon shortfall. What do you think ?
Apple depends too much on iPhones sells and they were warned years ago about it.
Apple has done a exemplary job. Their new silicon and computers are blowing away the competition. They have made great sales and profits over last year and I believe they will continue to do so. These analysts always estimate high, because they never considered the economic and shortage issues resulting from COVID-19. The are opportunistic and greedy with their projections! Wall street shouldn't listen to them, let alone react to these idiots!