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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/5/2010 Posts: 2,459
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Am looking at the current edition of the fortune magazine and I can't believe Apple are way ahead of giants like Microsoft,Boeing, co-cacola, Time- warner, Google, Morgan stanley ..............
$65bn in revenues and $14bn in profits making them the 8th largest US corporation.
Then I remembered a story in the papers two weeks ago about a teenager in China who sold his kidney to buy an I-pad.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/16/2010 Posts: 906 Location: Nairobi
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Remember this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY LOL Apple took the lead when they trained their focus on mobile devices, which are the future of personal computing.
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/9/2010 Posts: 546 Location: Garissa
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FRM2011 wrote:Am looking at the current edition of the fortune magazine and I can't believe Apple are way ahead of giants like Microsoft,Boeing, co-cacola, Time- warner, Google, Morgan stanley ..............
$65bn in revenues and $14bn in profits making them the 8th largest US corporation. And the war is not over yet. Bill Gates stole Steve Jobs innovation. Gates will one day cry in the toilet. Nokia will face the fate sooner than later. When you use unethical means to make a profit, you are destined to die a painful death. It is not about releases a product first, it is about your staying power in innovation. Gates has always been a dander head and when icloud finally hits the dock, microsoft office will only be good for calculators.
Then I remembered a story in the papers two weeks ago about a teenager in China who sold his kidney to buy an I-pad. Wisdom to detect when share prices hit rock bottom.
When interest on bonds keep going up, you know the bear run is on high street. When interest on bonds start leveling, the bear has met the bull and they have hit rock bottom. When the interest rates on bonds start coming down, the bull has overpowered the bear and you better be riding the bull.
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/9/2010 Posts: 546 Location: Garissa
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Sure wrote:FRM2011 wrote:Am looking at the current edition of the fortune magazine and I can't believe Apple are way ahead of giants like Microsoft,Boeing, co-cacola, Time- warner, Google, Morgan stanley ..............
$65bn in revenues and $14bn in profits making them the 8th largest US corporation. And the war is not over yet. Bill Gates stole Steve Jobs innovation. Gates will one day cry in the toilet. Nokia will face the fate sooner than later. When you use unethical means to make a profit, you are destined to die a painful death. It is not about releases a product first, it is about your staying power in innovation. Gates has always been a dander head and when icloud finally hits the dock, microsoft office will only be good for calculators.
Then I remembered a story in the papers two weeks ago about a teenager in China who sold his kidney to buy an I-pad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im589uTchKs Wisdom to detect when share prices hit rock bottom.
When interest on bonds keep going up, you know the bear run is on high street. When interest on bonds start leveling, the bear has met the bull and they have hit rock bottom. When the interest rates on bonds start coming down, the bull has overpowered the bear and you better be riding the bull.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/26/2007 Posts: 6,514
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Apple overtook Microsoft because Apple manages/controls the hardware AND the software. Business opportunities are like buses,there's always another one coming
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/2/2011 Posts: 4,818 Location: -1.2107, 36.8831
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Apple overtook all of them when they realise the importance of the following proverb/saying; 'An Apple a day, Keeps your KIDNEY away'. Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.” ― Rashi
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 7/15/2010 Posts: 63 Location: nairobi
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There is a saying regarding Microsoft poor marketing Strategy that says that: "If Microsoft was in charge of marketing procreation we would be extinct by now." I don't want to reach the end of my life and find I just lived the length of it.
I want to find I have lived it's breadth as well.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/9/2009 Posts: 6,592 Location: Nairobi
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Apple built a brand that fitted into people's lives creating an almost cult culture around their products to a point where people lined up even in Japan to buy iPads without knowing what they were. Microsoft just shoves down our throats whatever they want. At this rate oracle will also overtake them. Innovation is the key to survival.
BBI will solve it :)
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/2/2011 Posts: 629 Location: Nai
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FRM2011 wrote:Am looking at the current edition of the fortune magazine and I can't believe Apple are way ahead of giants like Microsoft,Boeing, co-cacola, Time- warner, Google, Morgan stanley ..............
$65bn in revenues and $14bn in profits making them the 8th largest US corporation.
Then I remembered a story in the papers two weeks ago about a teenager in China who sold his kidney to buy an I-pad. Apple sells sophistication, Microsoft sells universal. the market segments are very different and Apple's is willing to pay more... for a bit more
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/25/2008 Posts: 192 Location: Nairobi
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I was reading HBR's old article on resilence and I was suprised at how rarely big companies are able to read trends and exploit them to their advantage. To summarise, any company that intends to continue being a market leader must: 1. become entirely free of denial,nostalgia, and arrogance. It must be deeply conscious of what's changing and perpetually willing to consider how those changes are likely to affect its current success. 2.Have the ability to create a plethora of new options as compelling alternatives to dying strategies. 3. be able to divert resources from yesterday's products and programs to tomorrow's. This means building an ability to support a broad portfolio of breakout experiments with the necessary capital and talent. 4.Seek renewal i.e. Renewal becomes continuous and opportunity-driven, rather than episodic and crisis-driven, companies will need to embrace a creed that extends beyond operational excellence and flawless execution. Additionally an organization needs to identify any new disruptive innovation. (Apples Ipad is increasing eating into the lap top markets thus affeccting Microsoft software business) Itari muting'oe ihuragwo ngi ni Ngai
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Rank: Hello Joined: 8/3/2011 Posts: 4
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I am not sure Apple has overtaken Microsoft just yet. Though for the mobile industry, I see Apple taking a bigger market share than microsoft, but that is not really their type of game.
In the corporate world, you would be surprised that a big majority of the field are still on Windows, XP to be more specific, and I do not see that changing anytime soon, unless there would be a meltdown that would cause XP machines to just die. Probably the familiarity or the deeper stretch of users is making them stay.
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/22/2011 Posts: 193 Location: nairobi
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/16/2010 Posts: 906 Location: Nairobi
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rcarter wrote:I am not sure Apple has overtaken Microsoft just yet. Though for the mobile industry, I see Apple taking a bigger market share than microsoft, but that is not really their type of game.
In the corporate world, you would be surprised that a big majority of the field are still on Windows, XP to be more specific, and I do not see that changing anytime soon, unless there would be a meltdown that would cause XP machines to just die. Probably the familiarity or the deeper stretch of users is making them stay. Apple has overtaken Microsoft on all fronts: market cap, revenues and profits. Apple is now the second most valuable company in the world behind Exxon Mobil. Wewe uko nyuma na madesktop zako  Nowadays it's all about mobile and internet. Apple has a major footprint in all mobile devices that matter(laptops, MP3 players, phones, tablets), and it also has a major footprint online(iTunes). Windows is sooo behind in mobile and internet.
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Rank: Member Joined: 10/28/2008 Posts: 41
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Kobe kampita Kaka Sungura. Microsoft bado wanalala as Apple are edging them out. They are not as aggressive in development and marketing. On mobile devices they are losing out to Apple(iPads) and Google's Android(around 50% of smartphone market share). This shows in their financial results. In fact Apple have even surpassed US govt in terms of cash in hand Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14340470 The crowd will cheer your coronation as well as your beheading. People like a show, that's all.
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 6/22/2010 Posts: 17 Location: rbi
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where do you get your information? Microsoft is No 10 with $18,760.0 million and apple is No 20 with $14,013.0 million in profits as in 2010 financial results.My be you are talking about growth of 145.7% in Apple and 28.8% of Microsoft? “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” – Wolfgang Von Goethe .
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Rank: User Joined: 5/3/2011 Posts: 559
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... Apple is number 35 largest companies in USA, $65billion in revenue cannot make it to top 30, Apple revenue need to grow by 50% to apprx $95billion to make it to top 25 companies in USA. So get the numbers right!
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Rank: Member Joined: 6/25/2010 Posts: 415
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FRM2011 wrote:Am looking at the current edition of the fortune magazine and I can't believe Apple are way ahead of giants like Microsoft,Boeing, co-cacola, Time- warner, Google, Morgan stanley ..............
$65bn in revenues and $14bn in profits making them the 8th largest US corporation.
Then I remembered a story in the papers two weeks ago about a teenager in China who sold his kidney to buy an I-pad. Steve Jobs invented the original Windows operating system and Bill Gates simply ran with it. Steve Jobs is simply a Genius especially in creating a "buzz". People literary line up to buy new Apple products. When the Iphone 4 came out, Apple servers simply crashed coz they could not handle the demand! At this rate, Apple is definitely positioned to become the most valuable corporation in the the U.S bar none in a few short years.He has managed to achieve this by creating an almost foolproof distribution system. In the second quarter alone, Apple shipped 24 million Iphone 4s' It's Asian markets are expanding a meteoric rate. Most people who buy Apple products consider them a status symbol. It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/16/2010 Posts: 906 Location: Nairobi
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Drunkard wrote:... Apple is number 35 largest companies in USA, $65billion in revenue cannot make it to top 30, Apple revenue need to grow by 50% to apprx $95billion to make it to top 25 companies in USA. So get the numbers right! http://techcrunch.com/20...apple-microsoft-profit/
http://money.cnn.com/201...arkets/thebuzz/index.htm
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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story teller wrote:FRM2011 wrote:Am looking at the current edition of the fortune magazine and I can't believe Apple are way ahead of giants like Microsoft,Boeing, co-cacola, Time- warner, Google, Morgan stanley ..............
$65bn in revenues and $14bn in profits making them the 8th largest US corporation.
Then I remembered a story in the papers two weeks ago about a teenager in China who sold his kidney to buy an I-pad. Steve Jobs invented the original Windows operating system and Bill Gates simply ran with it. Steve Jobs is simply a Genius especially in creating a "buzz". People literary line up to buy new Apple products. When the Iphone 4 came out, Apple servers simply crashed coz they could not handle the demand! At this rate, Apple is definitely positioned to become the most valuable corporation in the the U.S bar none in a few short years.He has managed to achieve this by creating an almost foolproof distribution system. In the second quarter alone, Apple shipped 24 million Iphone 4s' It's Asian markets are expanding a meteoric rate. Most people who buy Apple products consider them a status symbol. Was it the same time Al Gore was inventing the internet?  He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: User Joined: 5/3/2011 Posts: 559
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KenyanLyrics wrote:[quote=Drunkard]... Apple is number 35 largest companies in USA, $65billion in revenue cannot make it to top 30, Apple revenue need to grow by 50% to apprx $95billion to make it to top 25 companies in USA. So get the numbers right! http://techcrunch.com/20...apple-microsoft-profit/
http://money.cnn.com/201...rkets/thebuzz/index.htm[/quote] I guess I see where you get the information and Like it is listed clearly Apple will have to grow by $50 billion to get to Exxon, please go through the rankings of 2011 fortune 500 companies and see the list, forget about other people's opinions. Apple is a great company though!
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