Monday, June 16, 2014

Top 10 Things Apple Should Have Done with Their $100 Billion Surplus

Apple Inc, is one of the world's most famous and leading American multi-national corporation. Like Youtube, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo, they are all headquartered in California, USA. Some of their famous products are the Apple computers, iPod, iPad and iPhone. Apple also owns iCloud, iTunes, App Store, iOS, OS X, Safari, iLife and iWork. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne are Apple's founders but Steve is the most known and famous. He died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor on October 5, 2011. With their $100 billion money excess, what are the things that Apple might have done with the money? Checkout and see the top 10 suggestions below regarding Apple's money surplus.

TOP : 10
Establish a manned lunar base and keep it running for 8.5 years.
Cost : $35 billion initially, then $7.35 billion annually.
Source : space.com

Lunar base illustration

TOP : 9
Buy all 63,000 worldwide Apple employees a $1 million mansion with change for a couple of Bentleys each.
Source : New York Times

A beautiful and luxurious mansion

TOP : 8
Go to McDonald's and buy everyone in the world 2 big Mac meals, 1 vanilla ice cream cone and a chocolate chip cookie.
Source : McDonald's and CIA World Fact Book

McDonald's building photo

TOP : 7
Turn yourself into a Tony Montana and buy 1/3 of all the illegal drugs in the world.
Source : Huffington Post

Tony Montana photo

TOP : 6
Hire the entire Russian armed forces for two years.
Cost : $52.7 billion. Use it for good and/or evil.
Source : BBC

Russian Armed Forces

TOP : 5
Hire the Rolling Stones ($8 million per night) and make them play every night for the next 34 years.
Source : Telegraph - UK

The Rolling Stones

TOP : 4
Donate it to the United Nations and end World Hunger for over three years.
Cost : $30 billion a year.

United Nations headquarter building

TOP : 3
Buy 95,238,095,238 Hershey's chocolate bars ($1.05 each). Melt them down and cover the whole of Singapore in chocolate with enough chocolate rain left to coat Monaco 32 times over.
Source : Fox, NASA, Nations Online

Hershey's chocolate bars

TOP : 2
Buy all 32 NFL teams ($32 billion), all 30 MLB teams ($15 billion) all 30 NHL teams ($7 billion), all 30 NBA teams ($11 billion), the 25 most valuable soccer clubs ($13 billion), cover the costs of all 12 formula 1 teams for the next 5 years ($6 billion) and host the Olympic Games ($16 billion - London).
Source : Forbes, Huffington Post, Daily Telegraph - UK, Guardian - UK, Daily Mail.

The NFL teams

TOP : 1
Attempt to clone Steve Jobs. At $75,000 per embryo and a success rate similar to Dolly the sheep (1 in 277) the attempt would produce 4813 baby Steves.
Source : The Independent - UK

Steve Jobs photo

Data Sources :

www.en.wikipedia.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy4_mG8-X9w

Photos Sources :

www.googlelunarxprize.org
www.homedsgn.com
www.ibtimes.com
copyrights, portraits studio
www.ctvnews.ca
www.stereogum.com
www.wirednewyork.com
www.uabearfacts.com
www.thehookey.com
www.biography.com

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Please be noted that the top 10 that we are including here in our blog are all unofficial rankings unless otherwise noted. Most of the top ten lists are based on Google search results and collected mainly from different blogs and websites around the internet world.

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