Thanks to David Parr for this piece from Bloomberg Business News. Apple has been criticised that its glory days are no longer but the iPhone 5s and 5c sold a record 9 million units during the first weekend after its launch. Put this in perspective if this single product were its own company in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, IPhone Inc. would outsell 474 of those companies—ranking between Wells Fargo (WFC) ($90.5 billion) and Marathon Petroleum (MPC) ($84.9 billion). The iPhone’s $88.4 billion in annualized revenue tops 21 of the 30 component companies in the Dow Jones industrial average—it would be the ninth-biggest stock in the Dow 30:
What if iPhone were its own company?
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