Its stockmarket capitalisation is four times bigger than China's and it has more than twice as many firms in theFortuneglobal500, which lists the world's biggest companies by revenue.
As of last quarter, 86% of theFortune500 and 47% of theGlobal500 were deploying or testing the iPad and 91% of Fortune500 and 57% of Global500 were deploying or testing the iPhone.
When I was theglobal vice president of service marketing for a Fortune500 healthcare company, someone once asked me what percentage of time I spent in personnel management activities.