business-45050213 Apple is first public company worth $1 trillion By Chris Johnston Business reporter, BBC News 2 August 2018

2018; “Apple’s revenue was $229bn in its most recent fiscal year.” In Britain, this amount would be $4,000 p.a. for each man, woman and child in the UK. The hostility to what Prince Charles called AI was repeated by Prince Charles yesterday. I myself am hostile to the phrase “Artificial Intelligence” as misrepresenting the lucrative possibility, but still it points to the wealth creator which was obstructed by the people and the government in the UK, the argument being that it would create unemployment.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x7cf.htm

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x1a81.pdf

http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/2nd-march-1974/25/computers . The fettered giant. “The rejection of high profitability is enshrined in a cliche of business management and accountancy, the well known principle that any business proposal claiming more than a reasonable (say 50 per cent) return on capital Invested must be rejected as unsound.“ - cf “Apple is first public company worth $1 trillion” 1,000,000,000,000 or 10^{12 .}(This would be £20,000 for every man, woman and child in Britain.)

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x5as.htm “The kiss of death for the wafer as an investment option was the debacle of Gene Amdahl ….”

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/8199/Anamartic-Limited/ ; http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/3043/Anamartic-Wafer-Scale-160MB-Solid-State-Disk/ 1989

Kernel. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/3ewk.htm

http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/23rd-september-1972/24/skinflints-city-diary