Give or take a few Rappen Apple is worth around $46bn more than Switzerland’s $650bn GDP
If they wanted to help out the SNB with buying gold, Apple’s worth would get them 18,157 tons. Just a smidge over the 1500 they would need to buy.
They are also worth more than the entire Russian stock market valued at around $530bn. after buying it Apple would still have enough to furnish every Russian with a free iphone.
They’re also bigger than the Italian and Singapore stock market.
As for rivals, well, they could buy Samsung 3 1/2 times over
Here’s some other stupid things they could buy
Sometimes it is absolutely staggering how businesses can grow into such monsters, particularly from something as simple as a mobile phone that you can fling birds at pigs on.
