Apple now bigger than Microsoft

[Spacecadet]

or so the BBC news headline reports:

BBC News - Apple passes Microsoft to be biggest tech company

Changes in the share price values of the two in Wednesday's choppy trading left the total value of Apple at $222bn (£154bn).

Microsoft is now valued by investors at $219bn.

However, Microsoft still enjoys higher profits than Apple. Its most recent annual net profit was $14.6bn (£10bn), compared with $5.7bn for Apple.

Microsoft also reported bigger full-year revenues of $58.4bn, with Apple on $36.5bn.

In top trump terms I'd still say that MS was the bigger of the two

[FiveTimes]

or so the BBC news headline reports:

BBC News - Apple passes Microsoft to be biggest tech company



In top trump terms I'd still say that MS was the bigger of the two

In top trumps terms -

"Style"
Apple 100%
MS - 23%

There is always one category that can beat the opponent.

[Spacecadet]

In top trumps terms -

"Style"
Apple 100%
MS - 23%

There is always one category that can beat the opponent.

Indeed

"Chinese Worker Suicides"
Apple 9
MS 0

[Scary]

Market cap is pretty meaningless. AAPL has gone to the moon thanks to dirty spekulants. In terms of number of employees for example IBM is about 4 times the size of Microsoft and 10 times Apple.

[Moscow Mule]

Indeed

"Chinese Worker Suicides"
Apple 9
MS 0
Dell 21

FTFY

[Pondlife]

"system restarts today"

Apple 0
MS 2

[centurian]

In terms of number of employees for example IBM is about 4 times the size of Microsoft and 10 times Apple.

Ah, but needing 4/10x the number of employees to achieve the same thing isn't something to be proud of - at least to investors. Wonderful for employees/contractors.

Going back decades, success within IBM was measured by the amount of employees you had working for you. That culture has changed to a degree since the strife of the early 90s, but I don't think they've eradicated it.

[Sysman]

"system restarts today"

Apple 0
MS 2

I couldn't believe it last week when I discovered that the mouse cable on a work XP system was tangled:

1. Disconnect mouse and re-route cable
2. Reconnect mouse
3. Need a reboot to get mouse working again
4. WTF? moment

[d000hg]

I couldn't believe it last week when I discovered that the mouse cable on a work XP system was tangled:

1. Disconnect mouse and re-route cable
2. Reconnect mouse
3. Need a reboot to get mouse working again
4. WTF? moment

I certainly haven't seen that with PS/2 or USB mice... laptops let you plug in mice and pull them out all the time. Even Win95 allowed this IIRC (you maybe couldn't start the PC with no mouse, perhaps, and plug one in).

[d000hg]

"system restarts today"

Apple 0
MS 2

I didn't do it recently but I seem to recall my Mac (10.5) makes me restart after installing updates, exactly like Windows Update... although Windows has to be-booted from updates way less often than in the past.
These people that post things like "installed Win7, after 10 min it had blue-screened twice"... I can never work out what the hell they're doing to get this effect. Are theytrying to break it to prove it is crap, like the priest who smashes everything up in an old Father Ted episode? My Mac, & Windows machines all have about the same crash/blue-screen rate... virtually zero, even though they tend to run for weeks using hibernate without a clean reboot