Today on AOL’s “my series”, they featured established companies and the smaller, more aggressive or innovative rivals that might one day succeed them. Examples include Ford as the next Toyota; Charles Schwab as the next Merrill Lynch; LinkedIn as the newest Facebook; Vizio as the next Sony; and Apple as the new….Apple? Wait. What?
While AOL goes on to list the reasons behind each assumption made regarding what is on its way in, and consequenty, what might be on its way out, they state that Apple’s “iPhone is a revolution in itself. On June 28th, 2007, Apple WAS NOT a player in the fiercely competitive cell phone market. On June 29th, 2007, it became a force to reckon with.” Georges Yared of BloggingStocks continues on to boast that Apple is one of the “great stories of corporate America and the stock market. Under the leadership and genius of Steven Jobs, Apple is emerging as the premier technology growth company of this decade and the next. In the past five years the stock has rocketed from $9 to the current $175, and yet the story is actually stronger than ever before.”
Additional thoughts: If you think about Apple’s products and the markets they have entered (digital music especially), no other company is equipped to handle (or compete with) the all inclusive eco-system Apple has setup for its customers. Apple has set itself far apart from any possible competition by keeping everything under one roof. By building their own hardware and writing their own software for that hardware, the user experience Apple provides is simply incomparable to anything else in the industry.
To brighten up your day, read the entire relentless praising of Apple on AOL and BloggingStocks by clicking here.
