genuinely out of all the tech companies that aren't Outright Scams, Apple is probably the least important by a good margin. Apple does not make important products. Apple software/hardware is not load-bearing.
if Apple ceased to exist and every piece of Apple hardware vanished from the face of the earth the second you scrolled past this post, it would be a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things. if the same happened with Microsoft and Windows PCs, it would have lasting consequences for human civilization. if Alphabet shut its doors tomorrow the world would be reeling in the void it left behind. there is no goddamn metric by which control over/investment in Apple Incorporated is worth a fraction of a similar share in Microsoft or Alphabet, save for investor stupidity.
