I am not saying that Apple isn't insanely valuable, but your comparison is WAAAAY off.. These two comparisons represeent two very different things. GDP is the amount of revenue actually spent on the domestic market. Market Cap is the value of current stock based on multiplying the current buying price by the current volume.

In other words - GDP does not equal the value in the same way that market cap does not equal revenue. A more valid comparison would be comparing the total revenue of Apple to the GDP of Greece. The actual value of Greece is very likely in the trillions.

So, for example, someone who was crazy and had 400 billion, if everyone sold to him at the current buying price, then he could buy 100% of Apple for 400 billion. On the other hand, simply because the Greeks spent 400 billion last year, does not mean that the price of purchasing ALL OF Greece would be 400 billion dollars.

To illustrate: The average house in Athens Greece costs the equivalent of nearly 400,000 USD$, and the population of Athens is 3.7 million. So if you say there are about 1 million homes in Athens - for For 400 billion USD, you could buy all of the homes of Athens - but this is a very distant accomplishment than purchasing 100% of Athens (let alone all of Greece) - you haven't even bought mineral rights, historic sites, public buildings, all of the commercial businesses and their properties, all of the industry of athens, all of the banks, etc....

In other words, Apple is not worth anywhere near the value of Greece.

Steve Jobs has had nearly nothing to do with Apple's success today? That's a crock. The first thing he did when he returned to Apple waskill dead end products and the company's confusing Performa Mac lineup. He gave the company a sense of focus by having only a few products made instead of many. Instead of having a million Macs with numbers on the end to indentify which was which, he opted to have the consumer mac and the high end Mac, that's it. That was in contrast to Gil Amilio's philosophy of having the company create as many products as possible. He then had the entire company board resign, the same board who led Apple to fail in the first place and replaced them with competent people. Then, he helped influence the company's marketing in a way where he had both consumers and Apple employees believe in Apple again. Over the years, Steve had personal involvement in just about everything Apple worked on down to the design of the product and the marketing of the product. He also came up with with the concept of the Apple Store and focused on every little detail, even the glass staircase in the store and the type of flore some stores would have.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html

http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/glass_staircase.html

I don't know of a single CEO besides Steve Jobs who spent much of his time and energy on just about every detail of everything that is Apple, from the products, the packing of the products, what materials they were made out of, the marketing behind the products, and the stores that sold the products. So to say that he had nearly nothing to do with the company's success would be to ignore all of this. If anything, he's the very reason Apple still exists today. His drive for Zen-like simplicity is also the reason Apple is the way they are now and the reason why they are not the messy company that Sony has become.

If I buy an iMac; I will install windows on it. Apple´s OSs, are so simple that want to do everything for you, and I hate that; it is like of it was trying to make you dumb on purpose.

So he took a company that was about to fail, removed it's board, and cut products. Fucking GENIUS.

Apple is where it is today because of Jonathan Ive.

Don't forget that Steve Jobs was behind the wheel the first time Apple was in trouble, and also took all the credit for the other genius of his company, Steve Wozniak. Jobs is incredibly good at taking credit for things. Read Woz' autobiography and see for yourself.

Absolutely.

And people forget that Steve Jobs had to go begging to Bill gates to save Apple....

the famous conference where Bill gates appeared on a big screen behind Jobs and the crowd were whistling, booing and jeering...  Jobs turned and said "people here have to understand that for Apple to succeed Microsoft doesnt need to fail" (I paraphrase).  Jobs then spent the rest of his time slagging off MS and Gates... classy.