Apple's $1 Trillion and Who Deserves What
Recently, the Apple corporation made news by reaching a company financial value of $1 trillion. This reminded me of Apple as an example of business and the premises on which businesses are generally viewed and treated. Back in the 1970's, Apple began as a small company founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. I put those two names in that order because the name Steve Jobs will be more familiar to a lot of people. And that's because of the relationship between business and our current society. Steve Jobs was the founder who was more like a businessman. Steve Wozniak was "only" the engineer who designed the first Apple computer and was involved in the technical work for following Apple computer models. We'll never know whether the early Apple computers would have been commercially successful if it had to depend on Wozniak's business skills. However, especially in the context of competing in an environment of corporate marketplaces, it's likely Appl...