APPLE to be the Most VALUABLE Company in the world

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yanamaster said:
imo the growth and current size of apple is just purely unsustainable in the short-to-medium term. Apple as a company has made great strides to be where it is now through innovation. First the ipod, later the iphone and a new series of popular macbooks etc, all these were crucial during the last decade for Apple.

Now, however, we have the same thing we see with most companies in this kind of situation: no creative ideas on what to do next.

Iphone 5? After not much more than a year since we got the iphone 4? Ipad 2? A tablet that since the beginning has been playing catch up in terms of functionality with the competition? Constant new macbook revisions with little to none (emphasis on the second) enhancements made to core functionality? I get the feeling this will eventually backfire on them.

Unfortunately Apple has some questionable business practices when it comes to fair pricing and quality of service in countries outside of the "reputable western countries". Because i still don't understand why Apple can push and shove all consumers west of Berlin despite the fact that we are all in the European Union.

About oil.....there is a very...interesting theory picking up in the academic world that oil is a substance that might replenish on it's own accord because....some genetic and chemistry studies have shown that oil does not derive from organic substances. Some theories question whether it does not come from natural geothermal processes from within the earths crust....But like i said earlier, this is just a theory that should be taken with a HUGE grain of salt ;)

But if it were true....oh the looks on the faces of ecologists would be priceless :)

Is this a joke post? You're complaining that Apple has only launched three disruptive products in a single decade. Think about that for a second. Think about how often your favourite consumer electronics company launches a product that turns a market upside-down or creates a new one. If they do it even once per decade, they're better than most.

BTW, it's practically irrelevant whether the abiotic oil theory is correct or not. Whether fossil fuels are processed dinosaur guts or a result of hydrocarbons bubbling out of the planet's core, it's still a geological process that occurs over millions of years, and we're still using it up over the course of a couple centuries. I would actually be more concerned if the abiotic theory were true, because that would mean we are unleashing more carbon into the biosphere than it has ever seen.