Apple finished the fiscal year of 2012 with record profits of $41.7 billion on $156.5 billion revenue. These numbers are astonishingly large, Apple is making record amounts of money at the moment.
Statistica has produced this handy chart to demonstrate just how much cash Apple made this year compared to all its rivals. From October 2011 to September 2012, Apple made more money than Microsoft, Google, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon combined.
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In the same period it made over twice as much as virtually the entire PC industry combined: Dell, Intel, Asus, Acer, IBM, HP and Lenovo.
Taking a look at this chart it's easy to see that Apple is the most valuable company on earth. It is incredibly profitable.
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mrmac007 said on Wed, 28 Nov 2012
And still they refuse to pay a decent wage to those in the retail sector.
LondonGuy said on Wed, 28 Nov 2012
@mrmac007
Despite the company's obscene wealth they can't be bothered to look after the pro and business market. Over 3 year old MacPros with no reduction in price, no more server hardware or OS since 10.6 Server, they're slashing staff in the Logic team, Final Cut Pro's dumbing down shambolic launch, a complete lack of iMac availability for over a month. Let's not forget that a huge number of people in the UK have under 6Mb broadband with no sight of BT's fibre network reaching their neighbourhood any time soon yet Apple put up the price of the iMac and charge extra for an SD if you want you watch/rent a DVD or install most business software (inc MS Office) or need to access files a client has sent you on CD/DVD.
WTF?! This is way too many cockups and bad choices in too shorter time. We have Siri, so how about Stivi - an intelligent business decision maker?
LondonGuy said on Wed, 28 Nov 2012
What is Apple doing with all that money other than paying their Exec's £M's and paying out dividends? Their new spaceship Campus will only cost a couple of £B if that.
Oh wait!!!!!! Open an Apple Bank account!
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