Here's What Apple Is Worth In Terms We Can Actually Understand

    Explain it to me like I'm not in tech.

    Michelle Rial
    by Michelle Rial

    BuzzFeed Staff

    We can't go a day without seeing a tweet about how many fancy companies Apple could buy.

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    Apple has $203 billion in cash; it could buy: Uber Tesla Twitter Netflix Dropbox SnapChat Airbnb SpaceX still have $30 billion left $AAPL

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    What does this even mean?

    So we broke it down and translated it into words we can all understand, like "guac is extra."

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    That's 16 trillion calories.

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    *Kind of makes sense to get a package at that point?

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    I hope Apple has 20 billion bathroom stalls.

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    Or it could subscribe to Netflix for the next 2 billion years.

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    This one's a stretch, but probably.

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    And the craziest of all: it turns out Apple can even afford rent in San Francisco.