Apple: amazing infographic

I don't like hyperbole but this graphic is just mind-boggling. It's from my local newspaper:
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Defa...ue&login=default&pub=ET&Enter=true&Skin=ETNEW

I'm attaching an image as well. (I'm not sure it's permissible or not and apologies in advance if it violates forum rules.)

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and they care about their overseas workers too
http://www.mactrast.com/2012/01/tim-cook-we-care-about-every-worker-in-our-supply-chain/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/b...s-for-workers-in-china.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

 

"Apple’s 116 percent profit growth helped push its total cash to $97.6 billion -- enough to cover Greece’s debt payments due in the next two years", ...

- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...ith-enough-cash-to-cover-greece-payments.html

 

Wow! That's a lot of Apple pie. And to think not so long ago they were struggling.

 

All of that is virtual money ... and if I may quote a favorite movie, Snatch:

A moissanite is an artificial diamond, Lincoln. It's Mickey Mouse, mate. Spurious. Not genuine. And it's worth... f**kle.

Cheers,
Mrk

 

Is that a bit like Monopoly money?

 

Not a believer in the stock market?

 

Ask yourselves, if you turn off the computer, what you've got left?
Mrk

 

If that computer is.... the stock market... a whole lot of problems.

 

All money is "virtual" in a way. But I agree in your statement to some extent as much of technology "value" can change dramatically in a short amount of time. Heck I still remember when all the value of stock for many online web sites crashed a decade ago.

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/16/this_american_life_disowns_mike_daisey/

I wonder who paid him. The Register article concludes this way:

Maybe "the tall poppy syndrome" at play?

 

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...hange-what-we-know-about-apples-manufacturing

 

Report: Apple Devices In Most U.S. Homes