Sounds great until Apple warns a terrorist/pedo/cartel they are being hacked and they realise the government are on to them 
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My new MacBook Pro M1 Max arrives next week! Woohoo!
Iāve been using a 2018 model until now so not too old but it will be my first Apple Silicon MacBook which will hopefully be a massive speed increase.
I have been an Apple fan for over a decade and wouldnāt use anything else. For phones and computers and also watches!
And since last year I am also an Apple investor thanks to FT! Iāve always wanted to invest in Apple but didnāt have the opportunity until now.
Although Apple is a massive company, in terms of market cap, I think there is still loads of untapped growth so I look forward to their price increasing loads over the next few years.
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They briefly did itā¦ 
Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $3 trillion market cap
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Itās obviously pretty common to compare big company market caps to GDP, it would probably be fairer to compare Revenue though.
If you could put a price on buying a country, that would be a fairer comparison to market cap.
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The UKās national net wealth is about $15tn so approximately 5 Apples.
UK Household-held equity is ~Ā£1tn so even if literally every individual was 100% invested in Apple and held no other stocks or funds the UK could buy half an Apple.
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If you could buy a country, assuming nobody left, you could probably value it at some multiple of itās tax revenue, which would be equivalent to income. So maybe Apple is worth like 3-5 x the GDP of a country.
Looks like Tim & Mark arenāt ready to hug it out and make up just yet.
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Detaching yourself from reality would seem to go directly against apples current whole health and well-being focus. Iām not sure apple would go there unless they drop the whole idea of health as itās clearly not good for you
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Good point, Tim Apple described them as a āHealthā company. Kinda defeats the point if everyone is obese in real life, but just has a super-fit avatar.
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The main issue I see with the meta verse is that people are assuming it is one place run by one company. It already exists we just call it an eco system, Iām a fully paid up member of the apple eco system - typing this on my Mac which was unlocked by my Apple Watch, listening to a podcast through my AirPods via my phone. Over lay a XR experience and with spacial audio and I donāt need to disappear into the Zuckerbergās VR avatar based vision.
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Agreed, I recently played a boxing game on the Oculus. Knackered after 3 minutes and felt like I had done a gym workout.
Surely gaming / exploring / etc et through physical activity comes under the pillar of health and wellbeing more so than sat on an ipad or iphone playing candy crush etcā¦
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I loved the whole WII thing when it came out even though very basic but the worst thing is having space. So the whole fitness thing is possible but I donāt know how VR can get really good in a house as movement is so important for a really good experience and that would be limited until you crash into something. 
Hi all
I want to buy a few shares for my sister for her birthday.
Can I do this? Even if I can, How??? Lol
Thanks
Only way currently is if she opens a account herself and you give her money to fund the account and she buy the shares. Or if shes to young buy it in your own account and sell when ready in future.
Yeah I thought that might be the case. I want to purchase today while itās lower than usual though and her birthday isnāt till the 30th but itās fine Iāll just buy it close to the time