Showing posts with label Apple market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple market. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Apple beats Microsoft's market value record, thanks to iPhone

According to Forbes, recently data indicate that Apple, only sales of the iPhone business more than the total sales of all Microsoft products. Yesterday, Apple's market value climbed past $623 billion, surpassing the record set by Microsoft during the heyday of technology stocks in 1999.


Forbes said that Apple's iPhone sales reached $ 22.7 billion up to March 31, 2012; while since 1975, Microsoft total sales reached $ 17.4 billion for all products, including the Windows operating system, Office software, Xbox consoles, the search Bing, Windows Phone, mobile phones and so on.

Rumors have said Apple will launch iPhone 5 and iPad mini in September. Thanks to this good news, which leads to the company shares rose on Monday, pushing Apple become the biggest U.S. company, at $623.52 billion, taking away the crown held by Microsoft Corp, since its December 1999 market valuation at $616.34 billion. However, if taking the inflation into account, the market value of Microsoft's record is still ahead of Apple, Microsoft's market capitalization in 1999 hit record $ 842.5 billion in the equivalent of today. 

That is to say, Apple beats Microsoft's market value record, main thanks for iPhone. Another date also shows that. According to data from Experian Hitwise, search variations on "iPhone 5" have been on the rise all year, but peaked during the week ending Aug. 18 when searches grew 128 percent over the previous week.

In addition to searching for "iPhone 5," Web users have also been scouring the Internet for details about "leaked iPhone 5," as rumored images of the next-gen phone have popped up online.

Experian also said iPad mini searches have been on the rise since April, when DigiTimes reported that protoypes of a new iPad with a 7.85-inch display had been delivered to Apple.


Now A trusted Verizon employee has just confirmed to TechCrunch that the carrier is having an all-staff vacation blackout from the dates of Friday, September 21 to September 30, which reveals the new iPhone will launch On Friday, September 21.

Through Steve Jobs leadership, Apple create the most dominant and innovative product on the market. But How far will Apple go? Can Apple continue to maintain its market monopoly status in the future? It still remains to see.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Apple market capitalization crosses the $ 600 billion mark

Apple Inc., the world’s most valuable company, Shares of it on Friday rose around one percent on the US bourse pushing the iPhone maker's market capitalization to $603 billion.

By stimulation of the new iPhone, iPad, and rumors of the new set-top boxes such as Apple TV, Apple's stock price quickly raised a new record high. On 17, Apple shares closed at $ 648.11 per share, the market value of the company up to $ 607.54 billion. 

Apple hit record high in April of this year last time, when the shares closed at $ 644 per share. However, the share followed by a U-turn down, fell to about $ 530.

Rumors have always cared about when the new generation of Apple's mobile phone and Tablet PC will be available in the market. In addition, rumors pointed out that Apple is working with several of the largest U.S. cable operators to start negotiations that act an Apple device as set-top box, in order to provide TV content and other content to the Users.

Some analysts believe that Apple's stock price could reach $ 900.

Tuobika White, capital markets analyst of U.S. investment bank, believes Apple's stock price will reach $ 1,111 next year. White also believes that the new products will push Apple's stock price continued to rise, and the stock still has a huge upside. The Apple counter surged on reports that it would launch iPhone 5 in early September 

In fact, at this point, the most persistent rumor about timing is that Apple will unveil and release it on Sept. 21. According to iMore, Apple will expand the international rollout of the iPhone 5 in early October.

According to the rumors, it seems likely that the new iPhone will boast a bigger, 4-inch screen. Thus far, all iPhones have had a 3.5-inch screen, but as competing Android devices push the limit of what the average hand can hold – the Galaxy Note "phablet" is a 5.3-inch number – Apple needs to up the ante. It's also pretty likely that 4G LTE connectivity will be part of the iPhone 5 equation; the new iPad already boasts this option.

What the new iPhone and Mini iPad will be like and how they will change the Apple. It remains to see.


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