No 2. A Billion iPads

With Apple’s stock above $500 per share, and a market cap of $506 billion, Apple is worth a billion iPads; the new iPad starts at $499. With earth’s population just above 7 billion, that is quite some figure.

No 1. Interstate Highway System

This magnificent system of 47 thousand miles of highway was built over a period of 35 years. The estimated cost of the project adjusted for inflation comes out around at $477 billion. Well, Apple is still $29 billion dollars worth more than this.