Apple makes $1.2bn profit in one of its best-ever quarters
Microsoft has first quarterly fall in revenue in 23 years
… At a time when one technology giant after another — Dell, Microsoft, Motorola, Sony, Sun, Yahoo — has stumbled, Apple seems to be doing everything right.
It’s not just that the company is making money, or that it’s just re-entered the Fortune 100, or that it’s kept growing at 40 per cent per year even as it hit $33 billion in sales — though in the teeth of the worst recession since at least the early 1980s, those two accomplishments alone would be remarkable. It’s that Apple has become a cultural icon. …
Without all that money to burn, maybe Microsoft will stop doing so many stupid things. It’s embarrassing.
Rick McCharles 
Hmm… interesting you don’t share the Microsoft total profits on your page. Just because Iphone populartiy brought apple up during a low doesn’t meen they are a cultural Icon. The media players have street rep, but besides the Iphone/touch the rest of the players are losing ground in the industry. Tell the complete story or don’t tell it at all