Except for a curious lack of chairs across the state, and plaintive cries of "rounding error!!"
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Except for a curious lack of chairs across the state, and plaintive cries of "rounding error!!"
We're talking market cap and that has no impact on purchasing power for a business. Its a simple equation that people like throw around, which is the share price times the number of outstanding shares.
Just because apple has a huge market cap doesn't mean they'll now get a discount for lcd display or memory modules.
Walmart gets huge discounts because of economies of scales - they buy boat loads of stuff and manufacturers give them a bigger discount because they buy soo much. Not because they have a large market capitalization.
When it somehow impacts MS, I'd agree. AAPL's market cap doesn't affect anyone but investors.
MSFT bigger problem is attracting talented ComSci graduates then anything else. Real talented people don't want to work at 90% of MSFT. Maybe their research division, but how many jobs openings are there?
Well based on the quality of Apple's software lately, they aren't attracting talented programmers at all. Their stuff is, unfortunately, some of the worst crap I've ever seen. Buggy beyond belief. It looks nice though. My 09 mac mini is bordering on unusable, with pretty much only Apple software being used. By contrast my Win 7 desktop kicks butt. No idea what's going on there.