Thursday, May 27th 2010
Apple Displaces Microsoft as Biggest Technology Company
For the first time since 1989, the era of Apple's market dominance over Microsoft is back. Shares of Apple on NASDAQ rose 2.8 percent on Wednesday, taking the company's market value to US $229 billion. As markets closed, Apple and Microsoft were poised at $222 billion and $219 billion. Microsoft stock fell 4 percent on this day. While the 4% may have contributed largely to the turn of events, Apple's emergence as the leading tech firm has been established, which is a watershed from 1998, when an almost broke Apple borrowed $190 million from Microsoft to stay afloat.
As far as revenues go, Microsoft is still leading. The Redmond, Washington based firm reported $14.5 billion revenue last quarter, compared to Cupertino, California based Apple, which reported $13.5 billion in the same period. While PC operating systems and software forms Microsoft's primary source of income, Apple sells a variety of computer hardware such as Macbook, software, and consumer electronics, including the popular Apple iPhone, and iPod.
Sources:
Reuters, intelliot
As far as revenues go, Microsoft is still leading. The Redmond, Washington based firm reported $14.5 billion revenue last quarter, compared to Cupertino, California based Apple, which reported $13.5 billion in the same period. While PC operating systems and software forms Microsoft's primary source of income, Apple sells a variety of computer hardware such as Macbook, software, and consumer electronics, including the popular Apple iPhone, and iPod.
109 Comments on Apple Displaces Microsoft as Biggest Technology Company
Always remember, the news is always skewed in someones favor. Especially when it comes to confidential information relating to government work.
It's about Apple creating a monopoly by forcing music publishers to only deal with them. Apple was threatening publishers that dealt with Amazon. Apple controls some 70% of the digital music market making them a monopoly which in turn makes that practice (using their market position to dictate who publishers deal with) illegal.
The media (news) sleeps with Jobs. If anything, it is skewed in Apple's favor and I do see a hint of that. The article tried to make Amazon the enemy (not aggressively so but I get a hint of it). I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon themselves leaked that information.
Seroiusly there just as bad as each other
I ain't saying Microsoft is a saint but what Apple is doing is damn near criminal.
I call them members of The Church of Saint Apple. You can detect them when they drive cars with a white apple sticker on... my advice: run away!!! :laugh:
Microsoft got SLAMMED, because Internet explorer was not only bundled, but unavoidably bundled. On OS X, you are more than welcome to use Chrome, Firefox, or Opera. If you don't want safari, you simply drag the application to the trash can, and its as if it never existed. For Internet explorer in Windows XP, it was impossible to remove, as it was integrated into the core of the OS.
That is the difference between abusing a monopoly, and bundling software.
Notice how no browser is a product for profit. Technically, browsers aren't even a part of a market--they're part of the operating system market.
In short, the EU killed a brilliant technology (seamless browsing of virtually everything). Try it if you don't believe me (IE6 can open C:\, IE7 opens My Computer to open C:\).
Next, the EU will sue Microsoft for integrating DirectX and not giving the consumer the choice to preinstall OpenGL. You wouldn't believe how many business applications were coded specifically for IE6. It is baseless and always was. Just EU milking a cash cow (again).
LOL. Sure they did. Whatever you say.
you said :that is simply untrue. that is like arguing that there were absolutely no alternatives out there in the mid 90s.
Oh, and AOL, if you could count that. They only reason they had any success what-so-ever was because of their mailing CDs to everyone with an address. Once that stopped, they pretty much disappeared.