Apple closed Friday with a stunning market capitalization of $2.127 trillion.
Just for some context, the company is now worth more than every state’s GDP in the country with the exception of California ($3.1 trillion), and larger than all but seven of the world’s economies, just behind France’s $2.71 trillion GDP.

Spare us the lectures, professors, we understand the complexities of comparing flow (GDPs) with stock (market capitalization) variables.