[buster]

wow.. 25$ a share for MS vs. 250$ for Apple? As much as i like that Apple innovates and does produce good products, you'll have to be blind to not see the share crash in the future.. it strongly reminds me of the old startup days..

I mean (not offending) MS products are deployed in what.. 95% of all computers? office in every companies PC? Windows?

Ok, Apple does have music selling through itunes, hardware (very low market share here!) and the mobile app sales.

I don't know, i'd rather want to see the income of both companies per division, that'd be more meaningful to me, at least. A lot of shareholders betting insane amounts of money into a company seems to be too familiar.

(Also i'm usualy not interested in shares and such, so i've probably missed something)

[ashot]

you can't compare stock prices directly, they have no relative meaning

[buster]

Mh, yes, now that i think of it... my first thought was "woah, i'll have to pay 10 times as much for one apple share", but in reality i'd just say "in invest 1000$ in whatever company, regardless of how many shares".. if the share goes up 10% it doesn't matter how many shares.. well.. my bad, as i said, i've no real interest in that stuff :P

So, all in all, this means that Apple is seen as much worth as MS (and not 10 times more). That's a point of view i didn't consider..

Still, i would really like to see the income sources of both and how much income is generated where, that'd be interesting.

[steveklabnik]

> Still, i would really like to see the income sources of both and how much income is generated where, that'd be interesting.

Here you go:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=MSFT+SEC+Filings http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=AAPL+SEC+Filings

[rimantas]

  Ok, Apple does have music selling through itunes,
  hardware (very low market share here!) and the mobile
  app sales.

You should research what share of profits they have with that very low market share in both computers and smartphones markets.

[buster]

Computers? As in Desktop computers and laptops worldwide? I can't find current numbers but i wouldn't think that Apple has reached a global market share for desktops over 10%. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system... Thats what i meant. Now tell me that in _this_ area Apple is exactly worth as much as MS. MS doesn't produce computers, so the comparison is not fair. But that's why i said i would want to see the numbers for all the departments of MS and Apple.

Also, the global market share for smart phones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

You surely don't want to know the numbers for mobile phones in general.

[megablast]

Wow, you are quick. He said profit, not market share. For example, Apple maybe only sell 2-3% of the entire mobile handset market, but make more profit out of any Mobile company. They make more money than Nokia, who sell 100x as many phones.

[jcooney]

Good point....like how MS's profit/revenue ration (in 2009 anyway) was ~28% vs. ~18% for Apple http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/09/the-money-made-by-micros...

[buster]

for the hundreds time now. That's why i want to see the numbers. I am writing since the first comments now, that the most interesting information would be numbers. But we don't know them...