At $400 billion, Apple is worth more than Greece

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ThePS3News said:

Millenium said:
Apple is still a company that put out overpriced crap, I'll never buy a Apple product.

Didn't even know Greece was worth that much anymore :-p

Apple is a company that ONLY makes quality products. Love them or hate them, You have to respect them for what they have done to the electronic industry.

Cant say the samething for Microsoft....

Apple doesn't manufacture most of it's products.
They buy chips from 3rd party manufacturers, namely Samsung.
The Apple A5 processor? That's not an Apple design. That is an Arm design backed up with an old PC manufacturer-gone mobile PowerVR graphics chip and manufactured by Samsung.
Foxconn usually assembles everything.

Screens? Samsung, LG... You name it, the iPhone, iPod, iPad actually has more Samsung technology than Apples, so really the quality is a testament to Samsung, not Apple.

Apple's strength is that they secure the latest technology at a good price to get first-dibs exclusivity on it.
Even their Operating Systems aren't purely origional designs, they have firm roots in the Unix world.

Apple doesn't make "quality products" everyone else does it for them, Apple actually has very-low R&D expendeture.

Microsft probably has done allot more tech-worthy innovations than what Apple has done, Microsoft does allot collaboration with Developers and Manufacturers to set unified standards and advance technology which has benefitted the PC arena greatly (Which in turn trickles down to other platforms like the Xbox, Playstation and Wii with their Direct X standard used to guide the design of the graphics chips used in those consoles.)

Apple doesn't really get down and dirty with Developers and Manufacturers and supports them in the way that Microsoft does.