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Soundwave on 12 February 2016
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Teeqoz said:
Soundwave said:

Actually that shows it's *possible* especially if MS' market cap drops and Apple's cash pile continues to rise (likely). I never said it would be easy. 

It shows that it's possible if you presume a ridiculously low premium, and you ignore the fact that Microsoft has 102 billion in cash and cash equivalent as well, and you pretend like Apple could just turn 170 billion in longterm marketable securities (read: government bonds) into hard cash just like that, and that there is no such thing as tax for repatriation of money, and a bunch of other things that do not reflect reailty. So no, it's not possible.

I never said right this moment today it's possible, but it's possible if MS' market cap drops, which is entirely possible given that PCs continue to decline every year. 

People on this board don't understand how huge Apple has gotten, they just assume they're making "pretty good money". No Apple was making "pretty good money" like 10 years ago. Where they are today is miles beyond that, they are in another stratosphere that basically no free market company has gotten to ever without government assistance.