Holy batman, Apple now worth $469 billion

From a com­pany which went from being worth peanuts, to now one of the largest com­pa­nies in the world. A legacy built upon advance­ments in tech­nol­ogy which has involved design, touch screen func­tion­al­ity, inno­v­a­tive ideas, new smaller pro­cess­ing capa­bil­i­ties etc.

To put this into per­spec­tive, Microsoft is worth $255.01 bil­lion, while Google is worth around $158 bil­lion as of 2012’s lat­est fig­ures. A com­bined total of $413 bil­lion, while the worth of Apple Inc is val­ued at $469 bil­lion, blow­ing its com­peti­tors out of the water.

I remem­ber in 2009, Microsoft being a much larger com­pany than Apple Inc, how­ever I would have never have thought that Apple could have sur­passed Microsoft, Google or any of the other big play­ers. To me, it looked as if Apple Inc was the under­dog, now it is the top dog in the tech­nol­ogy industry.

If I had a time machine, damn would I have bought a crap load of stock in Apple when it was cheap. There are peo­ple who lit­er­ally paid peanuts for Apple stock, to which are now worth $500 per share, the same price as a basic iPad.