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Author Topic: Apple’s Market Cap Passes $210 Billion, Now Within $50 Billion of You-Know-Who  (Read 3355 times)

zridling

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MG Siegler writes: it’s now a question of when Apple will pass Microsoft in value, not if. Looks like the iPad will put it over the top. Turns out that [for now] gadgets, not software is where the cash is.

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Because of it's proprietary/DRM nature, cost, and the fact that it doesn't yet mow the yard, I still won't be getting one until the desktop is outlawed.
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PS: Isn't it time Apple paid Microsoft that $150mn lifeline of cash it threw its way back in the mid-90s?

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When you said within you-know-who, i thought you were going to say SCO ;-)

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Ha!! Good one, Josh.  ;D Here's that story that should finally end for good soon, now that a jury has it:
http://blogs.compute...this_the_end_for_sco
« Last Edit: March 29, 2010, 05:56 PM by zridling »

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Ha!! Good one, Josh.  ;D Here's that story that should finally end for good soon, now that a jury has it:
http://blogs.compute...this_the_end_for_sco



Please, please, please let this finally put SCO out of OUR misery!


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Novell won over SCO! Thanks to one big heroine: Pamela Jones.
http://blog.linuxtod...groklaw-how-one.html