AAPL: a view from the top of the heap

A blog post that John passed along:

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/04/14/a-decade-of-apple-visualized.aspx

An excerpt:

I’ve compiled more than 10 years of operating data on the Mac maker, starting with the first quarter of fiscal 2002, the fiscal quarter when the iPod was launched — and I’m happy to share my findings with you, my Foolish reader. Let’s take an illustrative trip down memory lane and see the inner workings of Apple’s meteoric rise to become the largest company in the world over the past decade.