Imagining What You Could Do with Apple’s Astounding $700 Billion Worth

Continuing from a previous post, I highlighted Samsung’s climb to become the top smartphone seller worldwide, surpassing Apple. In this sequel, I want to discuss Apple’s massive financial worth. Reports indicate that the tech juggernaut’s market capitalization is a staggering $700 billion, with an additional $178 billion sitting as disposable cash. Engadget has an interesting analysis that helps contextualize this fortune by comparing it with other notable assets.

Market capitalization, a term that often flies over our heads, simply refers to a company’s total worth. Imagine you walk into a store, but instead of purchasing a product off the shelf, you’re buying the entire company. In this scenario, the company’s price tag would be its market capitalization.

Let’s imagine for a moment that you won the proverbial lottery and suddenly found yourself the owner of Apple’s heart-stopping $700 billion market capitalization. Now, what could you do with such an astronomical amount of money? Let’s take a fun journey through the world’s riches and see how we could possibly spend such a fortune.

Buy Top Sports Teams Across the Globe

With $700 billion burning a hole in your pocket, why not start with buying some of the world’s most illustrious sports teams? A quick look at the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest soccer clubs shows that you could take ownership of the top 20 teams for a collective price of $20.95 billion. Still, that would barely scratch the surface of your fortune.

Why stop at soccer? You could also pick up the ten biggest baseball clubs, including major names like the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox for an additional $9.14 billion. But with $700 billion, we are hardly being ambitious enough.

Purchase a Fleet of Luxury Cars

Along with owning prestigious sports teams, you’re going to need a sweet, sophisticated ride. A fleet of Bugatti Veyrons, each worth a cool $4 million, could roll into your garage. You could purchase 175,000 of these luxury vehicles, enough to provide one for each resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee, with plenty to spare for your personal collection.

Afford High-End Wardrobe Staples

While you’re spending, why not splurge on a stylish handcrafted leather jacket to complement your car collection? The Kay Michaels quilted jacket by British designer, Boda Skins, costing $600 each, could easily be added to your wardrobe. The $700 billion price tag can handle just short of 1.17 billion of them, lasting you more than three decades.

Purchase the Most Lavish Residences

Once you’ve taken care of high-speed thrills and elegant wear, we must consider where you will house your trophy collections. You could purchase Antilia, a 27-story skyscraper residence owned by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai. It features three helipads, 600 staff members, and a slew of luxurious amenities. If you prefer a home on American soil, how about Versailles, a lavish estate in Florida featured in the documentary “The Queen of Versailles”? Each of these residences costs a modest $100 million, meaning you could own not one or two but a whopping 700 of these estates!

Completely Fund Ivy League Education

In case philanthropy is close to your heart, you could use a part of your fortune to fund education. With their approximately $70,000 annual costs, you could send 10 million students for a one-year stint at Harvard University. Or, cover the full four-year course for 250,000 students – approximately the entire population of St. Petersburg, Florida.

Acquire Apple’s Biggest Rivals

Your financial might could enable you to purchase, and potentially shut down, two of Apple’s biggest rivals in the tech industry – Google and Samsung. Currently valued at around $382 billion and $186 billion respectively, you could own both ends of the smartphone battlefield. Better yet, imagine making Samsung, a significant supplier of iPhone components, an in-house parts producer!

Hire a Hollywood Star for Your Personal Entertainment

Lastly, just to sweeten the deal, how about hiring Harrison Ford, Hollywood’s venerable actor, as your personal entertainer? With Ford’s current daily rate of approximately $555,000, as calculated from his $65 million fee for “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, you could afford to have him around for 1.26 million days – that’s over 3000 years!

In conclusion, being the owner of Apple’s astounding wealth opens up a world of fascinating possibilities. This article is largely influenced by insights from Engadget.

This article was updated in 2025 to reflect modern realities.