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Apple's Cap Reaches $621B, Now The Most Valuable Public Company Of All Time
- omra 14y agoI think that the labels for the graph have been swapped up. Microsoft (1999) and Microsoft (Current).
- shalmanese 14y agoYeah, that was super confusing. At first I thought it was adjusted for inflation but then I saw the current numbers as being lower than the old numbers and didn't know what to make of it.
- wheels 14y agoThat obviously ignores inflation. Microsoft's peak of $619 billion in 1999 would be about $851 billion in 2012 dollars [1]. As such the word valuable is out of place there. [1] http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
- artursapek 14y agoThis article just seems like a rushed and careless attempt at pageviews. I wish people didn't upvote submissions like this.