Tag: AAPL

Friedman’s Law of the First Thing, as Applied to Investing: Market Caps

Investing, I’ve been known to say, is not, for most people, the key to financial health — probably not even in the Top 5 determinants of financial health (briefly: Numero Uno is savings rate, Numero Dos is making-a-living happiness, Numero Tres is having a feeling of currently being in control, Numero Cuatro is […]

Facebook, Meet Apple; Apple, Meet Facebook

I’m an old dog when it comes to Facebook. I, along with a lot of 50-somethings, used it quite a bit a few years ago, mostly to connect with people from our highschool days back in the ’70s. It was great for catching up with long-lost old friends. That lasted about half […]

Apples to Apples to Ice Cream Trucks: The Current Numeric Verdict is In

Much has been made this week of Apple becoming the most valuable company in history (as long as you ignore inflation). One comparo really caught me eye, though, which is this pull-quote, which had lain entombed within a New Yorker-length article in Vanity Fair until Forbes was kind enough to pull out this pull-quote […]

The New Generals: AAPL and MSFT (G vs. V)

Much has been written in the past week about the value of Apple, as a company, now exceeding the value of Microsoft as a company. The more jargony way of saying this is that that AAPL’s market capitalization (often trun cated down tomarket cap) exceeds MSFT’s market capitalization. In fact, […]