Microsoft crosses Apple with most valued company.

How tables have turned again. 🤦🏻‍♂️

https://reuters.com/technology/...

10 years and they can be gone, they don’t produce any real value but develop needs for their products in customers mindset

*Nearly* crosses. Apple is still on top. Says so right in the title.

@RememberMe marginally but seems like they could cross anytime soon.

Either way, with that much valuation, does it matter?

@Vane I am surprised how Microsoft is able to perform so better under Nadella than Gates.

@Floydimus Gates was terrible. Wait. Is terrible. He hasn’t improved.

@Root like?

@Floydimus, there be strange tides ahead.
We have three companies that make the OSs of more than 90% of end users' devices: Google's Android, Apple's iOS and MacOS, and Microsoft's Windows.

Android is *not profitable* in on itself, google has to feed it money it gets from advertising and from the App Store. Governments around the world are tightening regulations around ads, app store and search monopolies. Google might have some rough seas ahead, and a FOSS upstart might steal Android's thunder. *China*?!

Apple's OSs are walled garden products, thus cannot outgrow the sale of phisical devices. An with the economy tightening the budget of the masses, those sales might decrease from lack of able buyers.

That leaves a company with a questionable innovation track record, but countless government and business contracts, brand recognition as the "default OS option" and an ocean of funds. Besides, they actually expect people to exchange money for their software. Microsoft could still live.

@JsonBoa there are two sides of each story and how one presents it.

I can portray the same story from Google/Apple pov.

There are many factors involved behind this and OS just alone cannot push the valuation.

@Floydimus, that's for sure on most cases, including Apple and Google.

My point is, there is no foreseeable way for Nokia or IBM to ever lead the consumer OS market (again) and this could have been the case for Microsoft, but it's not.

The Seattle Empire might still land a hit on the Giant of Mountain View or the Fruit of Cupertino. *might*

@JsonBoa true.

@Floydimus or barely awake floating in an ocean of filler people on there own repeat trajectories which drag you along with them ? eventually we;ll reach some novel. the rich people just luck out in that they don';t have to see or be in the same places at any point ever or can just hide around living people. why am I surrounded by the dead ?

good, hope apple and their bs rot to oblivion