{"id":148,"date":"2006-01-14T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T07:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/wp_en\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/01\/14\/a-great-day-for-apple-fans\/"},"modified":"2006-01-14T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T07:59:38","slug":"a-great-day-for-apple-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/2006\/01\/14\/a-great-day-for-apple-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"a great day for apple fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/macdailynews.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/8206\/\">macdailynews:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nApple now worth more than Dell<\/p>\n<p>Friday, January 13, 2006 &#8211; 04:14 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he&#8217;d do if he was in charge of Apple Computer, Dell founder and then CEO Michael Dell stood before a crowd of several thousand IT executives and answered flippantly, &#8220;What would I do? I&#8217;d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A little more than a month later, on November 10, 1997, new Apple iCEO Steve Jobs responded, speaking in front of an image of Michael Dell&#8217;s bulls-eye covered face, &#8220;We&#8217;re coming after you, you&#8217;re in our sights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, after a little more than eight years of hard work, Apple Computer, Inc. passed Dell, Inc. in market value. That&#8217;s right, <a href=\"http:\/\/quotes.nasdaq.com\/Quote.dll?symbol=AAPL&amp;symbol=dell&amp;mode=stock&amp;multi.x=26&amp;multi.y=4\" target=\"_blank\">at market close Apple Computer ($72,132,428,843) is now worth more than Dell ($71,970,702,760).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Got any snappy retorts for that one, Mr. Dell?<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Apple has had the right man in charge since July 1997; a man with the vision and the ability to do what lesser men think impossible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>update: these numbers <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2006\/01\/14\/apple-dell\/\">from Om Malik<\/a> are even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from macdailynews: Apple now worth more than Dell Friday, January 13, 2006 &#8211; 04:14 PM EST On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he&#8217;d do if he was in charge of Apple Computer, Dell founder and then CEO Michael Dell stood before a crowd of several thousand IT executives and answered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}