Thursday, April 25, 2013

AAPL,MSFT: The Apple-Microsoft Comparison Is Valid

The Apple-Microsoft Comparison Is Valid
by jaberwock

I am not the first writer to compare Apple to Microsoft, an opinion which is opposed by articles like this. Apple is not like the Microsoft of 2013, a company which has struggled to stay current with technical developments, and has failed in most of its attempts at innovation over the past ten years or so. But Apple (AAPL) is beginning to resemble Microsoft (MSFT), as it was in the year 2000. At that time, the era of double digit growth in the PC market was coming to an end, the software upgrades that Microsoft was introducing were only marginally better than what was already in use, and the prospects for continued high growth in revenue and earnings were looking decidedly weak. read more »

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