{"id":999601,"date":"2026-03-27T08:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999601"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:52:46","slug":"apple-turns-50-what-apple-founder-steve-jobs-told-employees-when-iphone-maker-first-beat-microsofts-market-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/apple-turns-50-what-apple-founder-steve-jobs-told-employees-when-iphone-maker-first-beat-microsofts-market-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Turns 50: What Apple founder Steve Jobs told employees when iPhone maker first beat Microsoft\u2019s market cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple crossed a significant and historic milestone in May 2010, when it surpassed Microsoft in market capitalisation for the first time. For a company that was near bankruptcy just over a decade earlier, the achievement was a significant comeback and a symbolic shift in the tech industry\u2019s power balance. <\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs marked the moment with a brief, characteristically unsentimental email to the entire company. As most of you already know, at the close of today\u2019s stock market, Apple\u2019s market cap surpassed Microsoft\u2019s market cap,\u201d Jobs wrote at 5:59 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple crossed a significant and historic milestone in May 2010, when it surpassed Microsoft in market capitalisation for the first time. For a company that was near bankruptcy just over a decade earlier, the achievement was a significant comeback and a symbolic shift in the tech industry\u2019s power balance. Steve Jobs marked the moment with a brief, characteristically unsentimental email to the entire company. As most of you already know, at the close of today\u2019s stock market, Apple\u2019s market cap surpassed Microsoft\u2019s market cap,\u201d Jobs wrote at 5:59 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}