Apple's iPhone ALONE > ALL of Microsoft -- Carpe Diem

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Minutes later, from "anon 1": Halliburton to replace Blackberrys with iPhones for its employees.

... iPhones to help employees do their jobs more effectively in the field.

Halliburton will phase out 4,500 BlackBerrys, made by Research In Motion Ltd., over the coming two years, said Tara Mullee Agard, a spokeswoman for the Houston-based company. It’s switching because the iPhone does a better job of supporting company applications like Insite Anywhere, which displays information on well construction and completion, she said.

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Link here to Business Insider article via CarpeDiem.com:

"Apple's iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft. Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft. Think about that. The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it's bigger than a company that, 15 years ago, was dragged into court and threatened with forcible break-up because it had amassed an unassailable and unthinkably profitable monopoly.

The iPhone also appears to be considerably more profitable than Microsoft. In the December quarter, Apple's iPhone business generated $24.4 billion of revenue. Microsoft's whole company, meanwhile, from Windows to Office to servers to XBox, generated $20.9 billion (see chart above).

That is not trivial.

Speaking of which, what does Microsoft have in the pipeline? I can't even begin to list what Apple has in the pipeline.

At the time, Microsoft was a monopoly. It is absolutely amazing what a small company like Apple has done, when at one time it's market share in computers was two (2) percent.

My wife has an iPhone. My older daughter has an iPhone. I don't. Last night I was looking at some photos on my wife's iPhone. I was completely blown away (again) how incredible that very small device was: telephone, camera (high quality), internet, texting, music, videos, Siri, apps.

And that's the primary reason I don't get one; I would be on it all the time.