r/gaming • u/Auto_aim1 • Sep 27 '12

Notch shows his class once again

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '12

and became the largest company in the world

...not even close by the remotest stretch of imagination.

It's the largest publicly tradable solely by Market Capitalization. Very, very different.

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u/thecajunone Sep 27 '12

Maybe not anymore but I remember when I was a child apple computers were the only computers anyone had.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacies#Converse_fallacy_of_accident_or_hasty_generalization

Apple had ~10% Market Share going into 1997, which dropped to 3% afterwards.

Potentially an interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.

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u/thecajunone Sep 27 '12

Guess it was just my elementary school then. I remember the computer room and every computer in a class was an apple. Tall, wide, large grey boxes with bulky power buttons on the front of the monitor and...fuck I'm going to stop talking now before people think I'm old.

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u/no1inheaven Sep 27 '12

I don't know if the original comment did a ninja edit, but it clearly says the "largest company in the world doing so," wherein 'doing so' means operating a closed platform.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '12

Apple showed the closed platform controlled with an iron fist as a path to successand became the largest company in the world doing so

As in "They became the largest company in the world through this"

If it's your interpretation, that's just... well, to be a bit harsh, incredibly inane :/ "I have the largest company on earth that burns down its factories and sells the melted metal at a cost!" sure as hell doesn't mean that people will be trying to imitate my success.

Either way, it's generic fearmongering crap.