Here’s Everything Apple Could Buy With the Billions They Just Made - Polidicks

[QUOTE]We know that Apple just had its biggest quarter in history. We know that they made an insane $46.33 billion in revenue. But do we really know how much money $46.33 billion is? It's hard to visualize, so this presentation and facts may help:• 2,204 Mitt Romney's in 2011 • the value of 72,220 bars of gold. • the entire value of Apple in 2004. • the value of all NFL Franchises combined. • the entire valuation of Ford. • the value of 20% of Google's outstanding shares. • the cost of forty-six billion, thirty-three million McChickens without tax. • the entire yearly defense budget of the U.K. • over 160 times the cost of the Louisiana Purchase (in 2011 dollars) • 8 times the GDP of Somalia. • US revenue from income tax of the Western United States. • enough to buy Mark Zuckerberg 6,000 more houses. • winning $125M lotto jackpot, everyday, for the entire year! • 23,165 times more than Chuck Norris makes in one year • enough to put one tenth of US high school seniors through college. • enough to give 2 Apple scented candles to everyone. On the planet. • the combined annual income of every resident of Rhode Island, twice. • enough to give each Apple employee 49 new Honda Civics Of course revenue isn't net income. If you want to be a stickler about it Apple has [I]$97 billion[/I] in cash and securities lying around—come on, go ahead and double everything on this list. If you want to know more facts that can put that number into perspective, go to Apple Mode More Money Than. You can even submit your own. [/QUOTE] [URL]http://gizmodo.com/5880513/heres-everything-apple-could-buy-with-the-billions-they-just-made[/URL]

they should buy mcchickens for all of their customers. hmm fucking do it already, i'm hungry

[quote]Of course revenue isn't net income. If you want to be a stickler about it Apple has $97 billion in cash and securities lying around—come on, go ahead and double everything on this list.[/quote] And neither of them are profit. Revenue is before expenses and purchases. Apple is big but the OP's article writer is overstating.

[quote]the cost of forty-six billion, thirty-three million McChickens without tax.[/quote] Why bother giving the price without tax? You're going to pay the tax for it, so why not apply tax beforehand?

[QUOTE=thisispain;34466362]they should buy mcchickens for all of their customers. hmm fucking do it already, i'm hungry[/QUOTE] now i really want a mcchicken fuck you

Big corporations make a lot of money? Who would have guessed!!!

This is not news. Come on now, will we resort to posting cracked and kotaku articles soon?

woah!!!! multi-billion dollar companies can buy a lot of stuff!!!

they should buy love :(

tesco can buy more

[quote]• the entire valuation of Ford.[/quote] suddenly the ford mustang loses all semblance of a vehicle and becomes a touch screen with wheels

[quote]2,204 Mitt Romney's in 2011[/quote] I'd rather not

They should have a "customer appreciation day" and give them X-amount of free apps/downloads. I'd totally switch to mac then.

Bill Gates donations

[QUOTE=Terminutter;34466399]Why bother giving the price without tax? You're going to pay the tax for it, so why not apply tax beforehand?[/QUOTE] Because tax rates are highly variable by country, state/province, or even city.

[quote]23,165 times more than Chuck Norris makes in one year[/quote] :getout:

[url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-30/catcher-leads-iphone-related-shares-higher-after-apple-posts-bigger-profit.html]Source[/url] [quote] Apple’s fiscal first-quarter profit more than doubled to [B]$13.1 billion[/B] as revenue rose 73 percent to [B]$46.3 billion[/B], the company reported Jan. 24. Looking ahead to the second quarter, Apple forecast revenue of about $32.5 billion and profit of $8.50 a share. That compares with average analyst predictions for sales of $31.9 billion and profit of $7.96 a share. Taiwan trading was closed for a holiday last week. [/quote] There's the profit after expenses and purchases. Still a very large number.

Yeah and Microsoft makes more and is a better company so who wins?

It's fun to look at the market caps of various companies and knowing that Apple could buy any of the ones under 100 billion dollars. For example, Apple could buy Nvidia and AMD!

[QUOTE=TheCloak;34467037]Yeah and Microsoft makes more and is a better company so who wins?[/QUOTE] Nobody that bothers trying to argue about that.

[QUOTE=Protocol7;34466450]woah!!!! multi-billion dollar companies can buy a lot of stuff!!![/QUOTE] they always had

[QUOTE=Jocke;34466479]they should buy love :([/QUOTE] Well, really, [i]anybody[/i] could [i]buy[/i] love.

[QUOTE=person11;34467065]It's fun to look at the market caps of various companies and knowing that Apple could buy any of the ones under 100 billion dollars. For example, Apple could buy Nvidia and AMD![/QUOTE] No they couldn't.

[QUOTE=person11;34467065]It's fun to look at the market caps of various companies and knowing that Apple could buy any of the ones under 100 billion dollars. For example, Apple could buy Nvidia and AMD![/QUOTE] They'd better not.

you know, part of me thinks that any private entity holding that much capital is inordinately powerful, and that its existence is irresponsible and dangerous. no, that's just silly

[QUOTE=person11;34467065]It's fun to look at the market caps of various companies and knowing that Apple could buy any of the ones under 100 billion dollars. For example, Apple could buy Nvidia and AMD![/QUOTE] You know there is a lot more to it than that

It's enough to buy everyone on Earth a few Arizona Iced Teas each. And we all know how good Arizonas are.

How is this news

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;34466494]suddenly the ford mustang loses all semblance of a vehicle and becomes a touch screen with wheels[/QUOTE] Manual and automatic transmission gear selectors are replaced by a button because levers are of poor UI design and can confuse people too easily.

Overpriced goods made cheap as shit makes a huge profit, [b]who would have known[/b]!!!