[telecom] Apple's iPhone Business Alone Is Now Bigger Than All Of Microsoft

Apple's iPhone Business Alone Is Now Bigger Than All Of Microsoft

Henry Blodget Business Insider February 4, 2012

(Business Insider, company filings, CQ4 2011 revenue.)

Tech writer MG Siegler just noted a remarkable fact:

Apple's iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft.

Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft.

Think about that.

The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it's bigger than a company that, 15 years ago, was dragged into court and threatened with forcible break-up because it had amassed an unassailable and unthinkably profitable monopoly.

The iPhone also appears to be considerably more profitable than Microsoft.

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Monty Solomon
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Unless the iPhone has the same (massive) market dominance as MS had back then, then the comparison is pointless.

There are many, many alternatives to Apple's iPhone/Pad devices so while they are obviously popular and profitable, I don't think that they are monopolising any market.

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David Clayton

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