Tech giant Apple is worth a lot of cash.
In addition to being the largest publicly traded company on the U.S. stock market, its 2011 sales were worth $128 billion — more than 160 different nations' gross domestic products.
This Best Computer Science Degrees infographic compares Apple's massive reach to things around it in the world.
For example, you could lay all of the 56.4 million iPads that are projected to sell in 2012 back and forth between the east and west coast and still have plenty left over. Meanwhile, nearly as many iOS devices were sold in the U.S. in 2008 as cars — 200 million compared with 213 million.
Take a look at the inforgraphic and let us know if you think Apple will continue to expand.
BONUS: 7 Things Worth Less Than Apple
It costs a mere $100 million to travel to the moon in a $1.7 billion space shuttle (of which Apple could afford 235). With 60,400 full-time Apple employees, can you say "company picnic in outer space?"
Image courtesy of Marcin Wichary.
China produces 855,190 metric tons of tea leaves each year at $1.86 per kilogram. That's almost $1.6 billion — chump change compared to the $6.6 billion it takes to produce all the coffee in Brazil.
Image courtesy of Kyle Simourd.
It cost $300 million to make Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the most expensive movie ever made. $400 billion is more than 115 times the combined costs to make the 15 most expensive motion pictures in history.
Image courtesy of SPDP.
Based on a 2010 report, the combined endowments of the nation's 15 wealthiest universities is around $366 billion. But do they teach you how to make an iPad?
Image courtesy of California Cthulhu (Will Hart).
According to World Food Programme, it would take $3.2 billion to feed the 66 million hungry schoolchildren of the world for one year. Apple's market cap could achieve this for well over a century.
Image courtesy of USDAgov.
Based on the Tentative Assessment Roll for the 2011 fiscal year, New York City's market was valued at almost $800 billion. One of the world's largest and most expensive cities is only worth about twice what Apple is worth.
Image courtesy of Ruthanne Reid.
Apple's value comes close to the $406 billion combined net worth of the world's 10 wealthiest billionaires. In simpler terms, that's 148 Oprahs.
Image courtesy of United States Mission Geneva.
It costs a mere $100 million to travel to the moon in a $1.7 billion space shuttle (of which Apple could afford 235). With 60,400 full-time Apple employees, can you say "company picnic in outer space?"
Image courtesy of Marcin Wichary.
China produces 855,190 metric tons of tea leaves each year at $1.86 per kilogram. That's almost $1.6 billion — chump change compared to the $6.6 billion it takes to produce all the coffee in Brazil.
Image courtesy of Kyle Simourd.
It cost $300 million to make Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the most expensive movie ever made. $400 billion is more than 115 times the combined costs to make the 15 most expensive motion pictures in history.
Image courtesy of SPDP.
Based on a 2010 report, the combined endowments of the nation's 15 wealthiest universities is around $366 billion. But do they teach you how to make an iPad?
Image courtesy of California Cthulhu (Will Hart).
According to World Food Programme, it would take $3.2 billion to feed the 66 million hungry schoolchildren of the world for one year. Apple's market cap could achieve this for well over a century.
Image courtesy of USDAgov.
Based on the Tentative Assessment Roll for the 2011 fiscal year, New York City's market was valued at almost $800 billion. One of the world's largest and most expensive cities is only worth about twice what Apple is worth.
Image courtesy of Ruthanne Reid.
Apple's value comes close to the $406 billion combined net worth of the world's 10 wealthiest billionaires. In simpler terms, that's 148 Oprahs.
Image courtesy of United States Mission Geneva.
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