Fun Facts Apples To (Ahem) Apples
Fun Facts Apples To (Ahem) Apples
If those statistics aren’t staggering enough, here are a few more comparisons to help put things in perspective.
- The $6 billion in revenue from Apple’s iPad sales, up a whopping 183 percent year-over-over, now exceeds Dell’s consumer PC business. Twice.
- Apple’s $358 billion market value now totals more than the former Microsoft-Intel “monopoly” combined.
- Exxon Mobil, the largest publicly traded company in the world, is less than 20 percent larger in market value than Apple.
- Apple’s cash and marketable securities now totals over $76 billion. That sum in $1 bills would fill Apple’s new 500,000 square foot data center to a depth a six feet and weigh 83,000 tons.
- Using only this quarter’s net profit, Apple could empty out the $1 billion in unused dollar coins sitting in U.S. vaults more than seven times over. The resulting sea of golden Sacagaweas would weigh over 130 million pounds, or about 65,250 cows.