• @[email protected]
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    254 days ago

    Not sure how to feel about that, honestly.

    They deserve it for putting all the best engineers, designers, and developers under one roof and letting them do incredibly cool stuff.

    But that’s not how they actually made that much money. They did it through labor exploitation in their supply chain and anti-consumer/monopolistic business practices.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 days ago

      What great design are they doing now? I feel they haven’t done anything good in a few years

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          63 days ago

          Not just sweet, but surprisingly for Apple, the M4 Mac mini is even decent value for money. If you want to buy a similar non-mac machine you can’t do it for any less money. For ≈$1500, the comparable HP Z2 Mini comes with 16 GB of RAM and an 8 GB Nvidia T1000. For that price the Mac Mini comes with 24 GB of memory, shared but available to the GPU.

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        They released the Vision Pro this year. They were working on the Apple car. They supposedly have a Google home like device coming, as well as a doorbell. Hopefully between those two things we will start to see more devices that function with Apple home.

      • @[email protected]
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        -13 days ago

        They’re putting the charge port on the underside of mice.

        There aren’t any conceivable design improvements left to make…

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    63 days ago

    They were the first trillion dollar company only three or so years ago. Maybe two? Something is broken.

    • @chonglibloodsport
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      No this is how exponential growth works. The first trillion is always the hardest to make! Much easier to make another trillion after that!

  • @reddig33
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    53 days ago

    That logo art looks like cigarette butts.

  • @aeronmelon
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    54 days ago

    Shareholders: “How long until 5 trillion?”

  • @yesman
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    03 days ago

    What does it mean that a company is worth $4T? (and I’m not talking about market cap)

    It means that above and beyond the sum of Apple’s assets is a giant balloon of funny money backed by the full faith and credit of the greater idiot. Tesla has a big pustuous boil full of money too, and bitcoin is nothing else. I sure hope they don’t pop.

    • @athairmor
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      63 days ago

      Apple has over $100B in cash. They have patents, contracts, data centers, subscriptions, products, established market, consistent sales, etc. There would have to be a drastic change to the world for that to evaporate.

      Sure, some of the value is speculation on how they will do in the future but not nearly to the extent of Tesla’s valuation. Apple has ~4x the revenue of Tesla and ~2.5x the market cap.