Amazon is now the USA's most valuable publicly-traded company by market value:
Amazon's ended trading Monday with a market value of about $797 billion, compared with Microsoft's $783 billion. Apple, which had been part of a close three-way race for the seat, is now down to about $702 billion in market value after plunging last week on the news of its weak iPhone sales. Google parent company Alphabet has surpassed Apple with a market value of about $748 billion.
Previously: Microsoft Overtakes Amazon as Second Most Valuable U.S. Company
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday January 08 2019, @08:14PM
Speaking as a person who has given Apple well into five figures for Macs, I'd be perfectly happy to give them more, too... if they went back to the Mac Pro case/system design ca. approximately 2012. Or better. Though I have trouble imagining what that would be like, because that system design was damn near perfect AFAIAC. Upgrade the motherboard, provide more slots (or bigger slots) for RAM, throw a few drivers in there for up to date graphics cards... oh yeah, I'll buy, and how.
I only stopped giving them money because the designers shit themselves and fell in it with that non-rackable, desk-wart-driven, non-internally-expandable round POS they tried to pass off as a professional bit of hardware. I was not taken in.
They have since said they were going to do better [buzzfeednews.com], but the silence since then has been pretty consistent.
They did come out with a better, though still unfortunately borked, Mac Mini that I almost wanted, except for the soldered-in SSD storage and absurdly difficult-to-access interior. So again, they missed getting me to hand them money.
It seems like they don't care much for the Mac users. That's okay. My 2010 12/24 core Mac Pro is still purring along nicely. Maybe I'll haul myself over to EBay and grab a 2012 version if they bork this again, or they simply make me wait too long.
My message to Apple is simply this: "If you bork it, they will stop coming."
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