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01/13/2006, 7:50pm, EST

Friday, January 13th

Briefly: Apple surpasses Dell marketcap

In Brief: After years or waiting and anticipation earlier this week, Apple today closed with marketcap of $72.13 billion, surpassing Dell's $71.97 billion and making it one of the most valuable PC vendors in the world (behind HP).... Apple closed today at $85.58, up almost $1.30 (1.54%)--another all time high-- following several analyst upgrades.... While Apple has chosen not to participate in the "Intel Inside" program, which gives the vendors marketing dollars co-branding on the box and in marketing materials (including TV ads), Apple will includ Intel's dual-core Duo processor logo on its new iMac box--in part to distinguish it from the existing PowerPC-based iMac.... A newly filed Apple patent suggest that Apple may be looking to integrate a FM transmitter into its iPod as patent application No. 20050286481 describes "a method, apparatus, and system" that wirelessly plays iPod audio files over an FM radio receiver, such as a car radio... The recently released iPod Software Update 1.1 is causing a headache for many iPod users and many problems, including problems with sound after 20 seconds of playback.... Seattle software company Delicious Monster continues to be successful with its software for cataloging books, CDs and other items on a Mac, despite losing two employees to Apple. [updated]


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msg to michael dell
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01/13, 8:35pm, EST
Maybe you should consider just selling off the company and giving the money back to the shareholders? Hahahahah!!
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Porieux
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01/13, 8:43pm, EST
Good one :) you made my day.
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not just yet
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01/13, 10:16pm, EST
Dell is a pretty good benchmark but they Apple still has to beat Hewlett-Packard's market cap of $90.52B to be the "most valuable" if we're using this rule of thought.
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PC vendors
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01/13, 11:28pm, EST
HP Sells many things and PCs are not their main business.
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hp
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01/13, 11:33pm, EST
has a lot of problems and is losing cash like crazy. but they will be ok. just not as "big" as they currently are. sustaining their type of market is tough since upgrade cycles are becoming wider and wider not to mention customer loyalty is almost non existant now-a-days...
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This is amazing...
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01/14, 12:31am, EST
and a bit frightening, at the same time. If HP's market cap is "only" $90B, Apple probably about one quarter and one stock split away from surpassing that mark. So much can change in one year...
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WHEW!!!
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01/15, 6:09pm, EST
For all those that were afraid of "Intel Inside" or something similar on your Macs ... FEAR NOT!!

:)

(no offense intended to Intel, just really didn't like the marketing schtick)
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Market cap
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01/15, 6:47pm, EST
Just another indication that Apple's stock price is overvalued and ready for a fall! Of course, not until mid-year, well after jobs sells his entire steak (sans one share) for $800 million.

Keep in mind that Apple has just ONE product that their entire current run-up is based on, the iPod. Their computer market, while 'growing', is still just getting back to where it was in the late 90's. And all the talk of the MacTel's switching people left and right is great, at the moment its all talk and anecdotal.
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Apple value
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01/15, 9:24pm, EST
Okay, so Apple only has four MAJOR products: the Macintosh, the iPod, iTunes (music and video), and software. Clearly it only has an overwhelming dominance in the iPod and downloaded music and video, but it's PC marketshare HAS been growing steadily. Meanwhile Dell really does have ONE single product. PC hardware. That's all they have. I certainly wouldn't want my company's livelihood to depend on a single product. Jobs has proven that he has the flexibility to change with the times, and the vision to know which way to direct his company.

Will Dell be able to do the same? He hasn't shown any signs of it so far, but he still may, one day.
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01/16, 10:09am, EST
Yes, let's include ALL things apple sells: Software? Yeah, Apple has a huge hold on the Apple software market, since they're one of the few software vendors who write for the platform.

iTunes? Yeah, nothing like breaking out the iPod from iTunes to make it sound good. They have a huge market share, but the market for iTunes and such is small.

And Computers? Please. They barely can sell a million a year. And that's generally to Mac users. And like I said, it still barely reaching 1999 heights. (Oh, and if computers were such a great product, you'd think Apple would actually have, um, I don't know, marketed them over the past three years?)

As for dell, they've only go PC hardware? Well, I guess if you count their monitor business (which blows apple's monitor business away) as just PC Hardware. And their printers, yeah, I guess that's PC hardware too. (We'll ignore those multifunction printers that don't need a PC to work for most tasks and just call it PC hardware).

BTW, by the same analogy, Apple only does PC hardware and software. iTunes is software, for which a computer is needed to run. iPod is hardware, which, yes, you need a PC to run.
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