Just for the hell of it, let's say that Apple's iPhone unit was a separate company. Businessweek has done a bit of speculation and determined that the iPhone unit would be the ninth largest company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average based on revenues. Those revenues, which currently reach over US$88 billion annually, are alone enough to beat out those of entire mega-corporations.
Think that consumer goods Procter & Gamble is huge? iPhone revenues just exceed that company's revenues (about $85 billion). Surely all of those huge aircraft rolling out of Boeing's plants have to be worth more than a pile of iPhones, right? Wrong. Boeing's revenues are less than those of the mythical iPhone-only company. And rememb
