When you're the most valuable company in the world, the most profitable company of the last three years, and the company that sells the most popular smartphone and tablet, it's no surprise that others look up to you. For the seventh year in a row, Fortune has ranked Apple as the most-admired company on the planet.
You wouldn't know it from the relentlessly skeptical commentary on CNBC, the Pulitzer-prize-winning series in the New York Times, or the measly 12 times earnings Wall Street pays for its stock, but Apple is widely respected by people in the business.
Apple is tops on the list, but is followed by two other tech giants: retailer Amazon.com and everything-under-the-sun-er Google. The three have a striking lead in the admiration index over the competition. IBM (mostly competition for Google's cloud services) is ranked at 16, Samsung's tagged at 21, Microsoft registers at 24, Facebook is #38, eBay was 44th, and Intel dropped to 47th-place.
Source: Fortune
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Apple ranked as world's most-admired company for the 7th year straight
Apple's ranking is a no-brainer.
But do-no-evil-but-doing-it-anyway google?! And practically-warehouse-slave-labor amazon?! Can't fathom those rankings...
Bravo Apple! Way to go.
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Congrats to Apple. Well-Deserved.
Speaking of which ...google? Number 3? WTF indeed! Alright....let's be nice ...
congrats to google ... keep shoving up your dumb a$$ Ads up the World ... to pay your employees ... wherever they are or come from .... Larry knows what I mean! Right, Larry? Right! ;)
If it wasn't for Google employees, Apple would never find security holes. someone has to do the development work for Apple.
Yes indeed!
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-pays-225-million-for-violating-use...
You people really sound ignorant by always attacking Google. It comes off as you being upset because you didn't find a way to make money off advertisements before Google could. Sad really.
But anyways, congrats to Apple, Amazon, and Google on those top 3 spots! :)
I am just reading your comment over & over which is reminding me how I lost opportunity to become the most univeral-pain-in-a$$ by spying on people's lives and at whatever-cost just to make .99 per click .... :(
Yes. Because Google forces themselves into users lives.
In fact, I believe I got into gmail because a Googler held a gun to my head and told me not to use Yahoo.
Hope they'll prove their worth and deserve this much love in 2014 (which is shaping to be a year of No More Mac):
March - Mac Mini refresh, iTV, iWatch ?
June - iMac refresh, iOS 8 & OSX 11, iPad Air 2 ?
September - iPhone 6, iPad Pro ?
The questionable devices could be unveiled at different times (e.g. iWatch in June or September) but this looks realistic, maybe iMac will have Retina display but other than those above there won't be any other devices (I wouldn't count on Intel to finish their work for an upgraded Macbook Pro model in December). Not much but it can be exciting nonetheless.
It would be totally unexpected and cool if they release iPhone 6C (no TouchID) $1, iPhone 6 (new design 4" inch screen) $99, iPhone 6S (4.5" inch display). Probably won't happen though.
That is wonderful. I'm not surprised!
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