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
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109 Comments on Apple Displaces Microsoft as Biggest Technology Company

#102
Wile E
Power User
TheMailMan78Not at the time my friend.



What can I say? I'm old, OLD school.
Shit, I remember having to direct dial to servers and "surf" via ftp on a 9600baud (top of the line back then) modem. (That's 9.6Kb/s for you youngins. Average download speed = 950B/s). Almost a 1/2 hour to download a single FLOPPY.
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#103
Easy Rhino
Linux Advocate
Wile EShit, I remember having to direct dial to servers and "surf" via ftp on a 9600baud (top of the line back then) modem. (That's 9.6Kb/s for you youngins. Average download speed = 950B/s). Almost a 1/2 hour to download a single FLOPPY.
yup. dialing into to a BBS and talking with God knows who. i also remember this ongoing RPG game server where you would dial in an control a character.
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#104
Easy Rhino
Linux Advocate
TheMailMan78MAD MAZE SON!
i cant seem to get passed the email screen...
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#105
FordGT90Concept
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
Easy Rhinonetscape had a small market share because they were not bundled with an operating system. again, im not saying microsoft was in the wrong for bundling their own product (IE) with their OS. i am saying that netscape was a better browser that has a smaller market share because it was the 1990s and most consumers did not know what the hell the internet was yet. that hardly makes microsoft the reason the internet exists today.
IE was the undisputed the better browser. I remember having lots of problems with "bookmarks" in Netscape as opposed to IE's "favorites."
TheMailMan78No the only reason the Internet is where it is today is because of porn and thats not me trying to be funny. I was fappin' in 1990 on a Prodigy browser.
In 8-bit color? When you upgraded to IE, it must have blown your...mind. XD
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#106
Easy Rhino
Linux Advocate
FordGT90ConceptIE was the undisputed the better browser. I remember having lots of problems with "bookmarks" in Netscae as opposed to IE's "favorites."
IE crashed on every single computer in our school lab every day. i still remember the librarians insisting we use netscape when doing our online research.
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#107
FordGT90Concept
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
Sure that wasn't Windows 9x's fault? IE7 CTD'd a lot but I don't recall any of the other IE versions having that problem.

Anyway, this is going off topic. :p
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#108
Wile E
Power User
FordGT90ConceptIE was the undisputed the better browser. I remember having lots of problems with "bookmarks" in Netscape as opposed to IE's "favorites."



In 8-bit color? When you upgraded to IE, it must have blown your...mind. XD
Bullshit. Netscape owned IE back then. It was so much better for absolutely everyone I know that tried it.
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#109
FordGT90Concept
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
Better than IE4, yes, better than IE5, no. I used Netscape back in 1996 or so through 1998-1999.
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