Ondrej Holzman Apple announced that it will introduce a new iPad on March 7, after which its market value immediately soared - it has now surpassed the record mark of 500 billion dollars (about 9,3 trillion crowns). Only five companies in history have managed to surpass this magical number…
Moreover, in the last 10 years, only ExxonMobil, which operates in the mining industry, has managed a similar feat. Microsoft peaked in 1999 and is now worth barely half, Cisco is a fifth of what it was in the Internet boom of 2000. For comparison, we can state that the market value of Microsoft, Facebook and Google is only 567 billion dollars together. Considering how huge these companies are, we have to recognize the power of Apple.
Server & Hosting The Verge brought to the occasion an interesting graph in which it maps the growing market value of the Californian company from 1985, when Steve Jobs left Apple, to the present day. Only a few times in the graph we see a loss in value, mostly Apple grew. It is very interesting to see how the numbers skyrocketed after Tim Cook took over as CEO. At the same time, many people prophesied that with the departure of Steve Jobs, Apple may no longer succeed so massively.
We would like to offer you the graph in a translated version below, and please note that the stated amounts are in billions of dollars.
it climbed 300 in almost half a year... beautiful
Not for $300 it took 2 years. However, in recent months since December 2011, it has been growing at an incredible rate, so the question is when will the fall come? I hope it doesn't come, but it will affect the iPad3 a lot if it disappoints users and doesn't have at least what most predict and want, so they will have a long time to dig out of it. Now, since the departure of Steve Jobs, he is facing the biggest test and he has to shine, otherwise people can easily stop believing that Apple can still do it without SJ, but because I know that Jobs knew how to choose people, I am not afraid and I believe that he will continue to be able to do it, in addition to at least another 3-4 products will feel that they were invented by Jobs. Mainly, I think that Svýn left the vision to his colleagues far ahead when he knew he didn't have much time left. I'm just sad that the traditional keynote will present the best they've ever created without his art. Cook may be a super director and drives the company forward, but the last keynote already showed that he can't present the new product hot enough, it's a shame.
I think that they will have a few products that Jobs saw and approved in their pocket - like the iPad 3, iPhone5, the iPod and maybe the OS.
Theoretical.
I already find the deification of Jobs really laughable. I am far from satisfied with all the steps taken by Apple, and they all took place under Jobs. Any thoughts about what Jobs saw or "approved" and what he didn't are out of the way. But as I see it, a lot of people are willing to believe that one man was the backbone of a billion dollar corporation. And as for stocks, those stocks are going to go down someday, regardless of whether Jobs is there or not. Some laws of the market work and it cannot and will not grow indefinitely.