Apple now worth 66 times Dell’s market value

On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he’d do if he was in charge of Apple, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell stood before a crowd of several thousand IT executives and answered flippantly, “What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
SIDAGTMBTTS, as it were.
A little more than a month later, on November 10, 1997, new Apple Interim CEO (iCEO) Steve Jobs responded, speaking in front of an image of Michael Dell’s bullseye-covered face, “We’re coming after you, buddy.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs targets Dell, “We’re coming after you, buddy!”
As they say, those were the days.
Karma being karma, on January 13, 2006, after a little more than eight years of hard work, Apple passed Dell in market value, $72.13 billion vs. $71.97 billion at market close, respectively.
In the years since, the beatings have continued unrelentingly