With $128 billion of sales in 2011, Apple gets more profits than the entire economies of some countries. Apple certainly is an unrivaled tech giant, bringing out more products than competitors like Intel, HP and Microsoft.While Apple is a tech giant, it is not the most profitable business in the entire world or even the entire United States. Wal-Mart sells about $417 billion in products each year and employs 2.1 million people. Apple employs 34,000 individuals. In the stock market, Apple generates more profits per share than Wal-Mart for its stockholders. It is the most popular company for investors in the United States stock market, seconded by Exxon.
Product launches are nothing short of historic. The new iPad sold 3 million models in the first 72 hours of release. This is the equivalent of 11 iPads per second. Apple will likely sell 56.4 million iPads in 2012.
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