Once again, Apple has found itself the most valuable company on Earth, attaining a market capitalization of about $456 billion today, beating ExxonMobil’s market cap of just $402 Billion. Yawn.
More interesting, however, is that Apple’s combined value is more than Google and Microsoft put together, who are worth $198.9 billion and $256.7 billion, respectively.
As we watch Apple race to be the world’s first trillion dollar company, I wonder what we’ll all be measuring its value against next. Silicon Valley? The United States? The Moon? The secret to immortality?
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
13 responses to “Apple Now Worth More Than Microsoft And Google Put Together”
Read the title again
I believe there should be a “more” in there
Next year: “Apple is now worth more than… everything.”
The bigger they get the harder they fall.
They’ve got a long way to go to a trillion dollar company.
Next year will be “Apple has all the money in the world — as a result, nobody can buy anything from them.”
Still unable to do a little proofreading before hitting “send”?
whoa, whoa, brownlee is a writer of the highest caliber. we won’t stand for your insinuations.
are you trying to say that brownlee should *gasp* proofread? what are you, the grammar police?
With all that money they should invest some of it in better products, work stations, etc.
Apple has all that money and won’t put out anything new or revolutionary!!! Every yr these minor spec bump products!!! Get out the box!! All that money and no brains!!!
Stick with what works. The last thing we want is for Apple to obsolete their products every month like Samsung.
What are talking about iSheep?!
The GSII still beats the 4s and it’s a year old. The Galaxy Nexus and Note and also world beaters.
wake up and leave your flock!
Android FTW