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Summary (note: revenue, not profit) Blackberry: 205 Facebook: 230 Nokia: 941 Oracle: 1068 Cisco: 1594 Intel: 1628 Dell: 1865 Google: 1873 Amazon: 1996 Microsoft

Summary (note: revenue, not profit) Blackberry: 205 Facebook: 230 Nokia: 941 Oracle: 1068 Cisco: 1594 Intel: 1628 Dell: 1865 Google: 1873 Amazon: 1996 Microsoft: 2331 IBM: 3166 HP: 3459 Foxconn: 3815 Apple: 4540 Samsung: 6486

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sebbi 13y ago
I wonder what's their source for this infographic (or how old it is). $1 per second equals $31.536.000 per year. That's only 204.5 billion for Samsung which had 268.8 billion in 2012 and - so far - only record breaking quarters in 2013. Same for Apple (143.2 billion vs. 171 billion.
crntaylor 13y ago
Bar graph, for ease of comparison: http://imgur.com/J21Oi7Z http://imgur.com/J21Oi7Z
- tonylemesmer 13y ago
  a much nicer way of looking at simple data!
vilius 13y ago
Notice the impact different presentation makes here. If I'd come to a summary like this, I'd notice some standings, compare few companies and continue with what I was doing. While the info-graph provided a completely different experience. I was staring at the data, comparing with my own income, comparing to cars and houses, thinking about the profit difference between FB and Google and what it will take FB to get somewhere close. The data is the same, but data with design applied gets me interested and I spend time investigating it.
notacoward 13y ago
Just for fun, here are the profit numbers. Gazprom 1410 Exxon Mobil 1302 I&C Bank of China 1021 Shell 980 Chevron 852 China Constr. Bank 830 Apple 822 BP 814 BHP Billiton 749 Microsoft 734 Two banks, two high tech, the rest oil/gas/mining. Kind of depressing. List and figures from http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2012/performers/companies/profits/ http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2012/perfor...
- chollida1 13y ago
  > Two banks, two high tech, the rest oil/gas/mining. Kind of depressing. Why is this depressing? It looks like the people manufacturing things for the economy are being rewarded. To me this seems like the economy is working properly.
  - carlob 13y ago
    Oil/gas/mining don't exactly leave the world a better place. Banks one could argue for both sides, though I tend to lean on bad too.
    - elliptic 13y ago
      Ehhh. Those companies and others like them (Aramco, etc) represent the heart of the modern industrial economy, for better or for worse. Are consumer companies like Apple even imaginable in their absence?
  - notacoward 13y ago
    No, it seems like the people manufacturing one thing are being rewarded more than the people manufacturing other things . . . until you realize it's not manufacturing at all. It's resource extraction, which is necessary but still a different thing. Also, why overlook the banks? They might not be totally without value, but they're not manufacturing either. I'd much rather see such a list dominated by people who actually build stuff higher up the value chain, not their suppliers and facilitators.

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sebbi 13y ago

I wonder what's their source for this infographic (or how old it is). $1 per second equals $31.536.000 per year. That's only 204.5 billion for Samsung which had 268.8 billion in 2012 and - so far - only record breaking quarters in 2013. Same for Apple (143.2 billion vs. 171 billion.

crntaylor 13y ago

Bar graph, for ease of comparison: http://imgur.com/J21Oi7Z http://imgur.com/J21Oi7Z

tonylemesmer 13y ago
a much nicer way of looking at simple data!

vilius 13y ago

Notice the impact different presentation makes here. If I'd come to a summary like this, I'd notice some standings, compare few companies and continue with what I was doing. While the info-graph provided a completely different experience. I was staring at the data, comparing with my own income, comparing to cars and houses, thinking about the profit difference between FB and Google and what it will take FB to get somewhere close. The data is the same, but data with design applied gets me interested and I spend time investigating it.

notacoward 13y ago

Just for fun, here are the profit numbers. Gazprom 1410 Exxon Mobil 1302 I&C Bank of China 1021 Shell 980 Chevron 852 China Constr. Bank 830 Apple 822 BP 814 BHP Billiton 749 Microsoft 734 Two banks, two high tech, the rest oil/gas/mining. Kind of depressing. List and figures from http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2012/performers/companies/profits/ http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2012/perfor...

chollida1 13y ago
> Two banks, two high tech, the rest oil/gas/mining. Kind of depressing. Why is this depressing? It looks like the people manufacturing things for the economy are being rewarded. To me this seems like the economy is working properly.
- carlob 13y ago
  Oil/gas/mining don't exactly leave the world a better place. Banks one could argue for both sides, though I tend to lean on bad too.
  - elliptic 13y ago
    Ehhh. Those companies and others like them (Aramco, etc) represent the heart of the modern industrial economy, for better or for worse. Are consumer companies like Apple even imaginable in their absence?
- notacoward 13y ago
  No, it seems like the people manufacturing one thing are being rewarded more than the people manufacturing other things . . . until you realize it's not manufacturing at all. It's resource extraction, which is necessary but still a different thing. Also, why overlook the banks? They might not be totally without value, but they're not manufacturing either. I'd much rather see such a list dominated by people who actually build stuff higher up the value chain, not their suppliers and facilitators.