Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company -- again
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As Microsoft stock rises and Apple's falls over analysts expectation of slowing iPhone demand, the two firms are once more within $100 billion of each other — the smallest gap in over two years.

Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company::As Microsoft stock rises and Apple’s falls over analysts expectation of slowing iPhone demand, the two firms are once more within $100 billion of each other — the smallest gap in over two years.

    • PorkSoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      10 months ago

      They offer multiple products and services. Each of which can have a respective monopoly.

      • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
        47·
        10 months ago

        OK but what monopoly do they have? I can’t even think of one, let alone two.

        Windows, for example, is about 29% of web traffic, putting them in second place behind Android… and Apple is also bigger than Windows if you don’t split the fruit companies operating system up based on wether or not it has a touch screen (seems like a silly distinction to me).

        There are clearly three players with about a third of the market each in the OS space. What’s the other one? Microsoft Office? Isn’t that like 20% of the market?

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          Are you seriously comparing PCs to Android phones and pretending they’re the same market? Lol

          You may as well be saying Luxottica can’t possibly have a monopoly on manufacturing glasses as there are plenty of manufacturers of binoculars.

          “They’re both used for seeing things! I don’t see the monopoly!”