___ ',_`""\ .---, \ :-""``/` | `;' //`\ / / __ | ('. |_ ./O)\ \ `) \ _/-. ` `"` |`-. .-=; ` / `-. /o o \ ,_, . '. L._._;_.-' . `'-. `'-.` ' `'-. `. ' `-. '-._. -' AAPL '. \ `\ | \ | | ; _. \ | | |-.(( ;. \ / / |-.`\) | '. ; / | |(_) ) | \ \ /` | ;'--' \ '.\ /` | / | /`| ; \ / | | | |-._ '. .' / | | |__.`'---"_;'-. .-' //__/ / | .-'`` _.-'` I----------------/ //__/ //___.--'----------------------I I I I Traded perception of net worth I I I I Company Feb 16 Feb 16 Apr 16 I I 2011 2012 2012 I I ======== ====== ====== ====== I I I I Apple Inc. = $335B $468B $541B I I I I Microsoft + Dell + Nokia = $290B $315B $304B I I I I Wallmart Stores = $180B $212B $206B I I I --------------------------------------------------------- (US dollars at current prices) Get the picture? Somethings not adding up. A new "mobile revolution?"
Perhaps, but it is still a bubble. I love bubbles. The only thing I like more than buying into them at the bottom, is shorting them at the top.
The Woz, cofounder of Apple, Proud Nokia Lumia 900 owner, and raving Windows Phone fan.
He shows us that he carried two Apple iPhones (both 4S), a Motorola DROID RAZR and, to our surprise at the time, a Nokia Lumia. It was a Lumia smartphone running Microsoft Windows 7.5 Mango. This podcast is at our lunch while Steve laid his four phones down for us. Blew our minds that he chose the Nokia Lumia — a Windows 7 phone — as his favorite of the four. He said it was no contest.
"I'm kind of shocked. Every screen is much more beautiful than the same apps on Android and iPhone." “Intuitive and beautiful” “I’m just shocked; I haven’t seen anything yet that isn’t more beautiful than the other platforms” “It makes me feel ‘Oh my gosh, I’m with a friend, not a tool’” "I also surmised that Steve Jobs might have been reincarnated at MS (Microsoft)"
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