As of January 12, 2006 10:01 ET, Apple Computer’s market value (price per share multiplied by the number of shares outstanding) stands at $72,039,808,640. Dell’s market value currently stands at $73,150,994,043.
[UPDATE: As of 10:58am ET, Market values: Apple: $72,301,066,720, Dell: $72,912,111,560.]
Rest assured, we are watching the situation closely. We have an article prepped (including relevant comments made in the past by Michael Dell and Steve Jobs) if and when Apple passes Dell in market value. (Note: Hewlett-Packard, maker of PCs, printers, digital cameras, etc. currently has a market value around $87.7 bln.)
You can watch the Apple vs. Dell market value race here.
Related article of particular interest:
Hedge fund manager Cody Willard: ‘Apple could become more valuable than Microsoft sometime in 2007’ – December 15, 2005
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I live in the UK, so if he’s walking around in dark glasses at the moment he’s going to be relatively badly bruised by the time he gets to my flat.
Doesn’t Lenovo translated from Mandarin to English mean “crap in a teacup?”
Michael Dell could not think outside the box. He said what he said in regards to Apple. Ready to throw in the towel…such a quitter. Guess he did not like much of the challenge or worse…didn’t know how to be creative to turn things around. Thats just it, he is not a creative.
Anyone second me in proposing Ampar’s post goes into the MDN ‘Hall of Fame’ of all time hilarious posts?
MCCFR: “And as for HP, how much of their value is based on inkjet cartridges.”
Oh, man. You’ve done it now. That’s supposed to be classified information. You should expect an HP agent with dark suit and dark glasses at your door at any moment. Do you have a safe house? RUN!
Just brilliant!
i was gonna say.. lenovo doesn’t sound remotely chinese
they used to be called legend
then they changed it to a NEW name.. (novo is spanish for new)
le(gend)novo
there you go…
<takes a bow> Thanks! You gotta have some fun!
Imnsho, one of my personal favorites:
“Microsoft Experience” Store – Here’s the scoop!
Upon entering, you will be required to sign a statement swearing that you won’t sue MS, the store, or any employee ever or you can’t go in. Then, they’ll cough in your face constantly to guarantee you’ll get sick. A store clerk then will follow you throughout your visit and toss junk mail into your shopping basket. Every few seconds a mentally challenged teenager dressed as a wizard will get in your face and spit out inane advice in very slow steps on things you don’t want or need. It will be awkward and embarassing. Halfway through your visit, a clerk will demand your credit card and charge you a fee if you want to continue your shopping. None of the store demos work but demonstrators will drone on about how a product is better than anything ever invented. Hidden cameras are everywhere but the feeds go to secret remote locations. Random products on shelves are booby trapped to explode. The store exit is marked enter and no one knows why.
I also share this one with friends in e-mail below my sig:
“Listening to Bill Gates makes me feel sorry for Kermit the Frog.”
Time goes on. I don’t think Apple MV > Dell MV today. But tomorrow is another day…
Meanwhile, what about giving me a feed back to the following:
(mail to stevejack@macdailynews.com) I agree more than 100% with your 01/11/06 commentary on http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/11/the_intel_based_macintosh_challenge/
It means 100% with what you say, and the rest with what you missed to say, like the MDN ideea that each and every iPod (and, should I say, every Mac) should carry a 5-10′ ad showing the Mac, OSX and iPod virtues over the PCs, Windows and (respectively) iPod rivals. Should be a simple, descriptive-like, efficient, “popular” ad, not the intellectual-refined Apple ad style, which, as you say, let the Mac user constantly feel just superior and the Windows user constantly just in the dark. Plenty of people I know (Windows users of course) simply NEVER HEARD about Apple or Mac (sorry for the 165 million advertising budget). Two months ago I stepped into a jewels store to engrave the new iPod nano I’ve bought for my wife’s anniversary. The lady-vendor there had never seen such a device. And, obviously, she looked like the regular urban person, not coming straight from the bushes. So, returning to the MDN idea, those ads could replace the boring multilanguage screen that goes with the OS X set-up assistant, or work as a screen saver in the way the RSS visualiser works (why not by default ?!), etc.
One final and most important thing. Everybody suggests, wishes, hopes, believes, that Apple will finally come to reason and understand that dropping self-sufficiency and setting free a wide popular advertising campaign is a major way to positively promote their products. But we also know that it’s just wishful thinking, because Apple and His Steveness are much too highly-stubborn on their principles to easily admit even the most obvious evidence. On the other hand, Apple owns something that no other computer and/or software maker has: a multi-million faithful users patrimony. So, for Apple’s sake
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Amen, babanovac. Sign me up.
Here’s a link to some of Apple’s TV ads:
http://www.redlightrunner.com/appleads.html
Judge for yourself.
Hey, Ampar, got’em all
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At 12:15p ET today, Apple was just 20cents away from surpassing Dell’s market cap.
About the Intel Mac’s use of EFI rather than BIOS:
First, bravo! My understanding is that BIOS is dinosaur-old technology, and that the Mac’s use of Open Firmware was one of the advantages they had over Intel PCs. Many techies bemoaned as a giant step backwards the fact that the developer units used BIOS. EFI is a good substitute for Open Firmware and offers most of the same advantages.
Secondly, I wonder if this will kink up the plans of the smug hackers who are working on making OS X run on any p.o.s PC over Apple’s objections. I have a feeling this hack won’t be as trivial as the others, presuming (as I do) that Intel OS X 10.4.4 requires EFI. My guess is the hack will take a long time, and the final solution will be so convoluted, no one will use it in any serious fashion.
Wow, that’s amazing.
All the more so because of the fact that Apple only has 1/3 the number of ‘shares outstanding’ than Dell.
Whooee…
If my calculations are correct…as of the close of the market today (January 13, 2006) AAPL has now passed DELL in market value. We’ll know the official numbers at 4:15pm ET.
They did it!!!
Peace.
certainly looks like it!
now what’s the next target? MSFT is probably a bit too soon..give it a month or two
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Apple has just passed Dell’s market cap!
It is 4:16, markets ares closed and Apple is at 72,13B while Dell is at 71,97B.
Go Apple!
HP is the next target. Their current cap is $90 billion.
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