this title...that's the weirdest way I've ever seen anyone write one trillion.. one billion thousand dollars?
They changed it now but I use the RSS feed and I noticed the same thing. It was: $1B,000 which I assume was trying to be a clever way of saying "add 3 zeros to a billion.
I think that nobody questions that the main factor for this meteoric rise in valuation was Steve Jobs it just proves that the entrepreneur and is vision are the main factors on the growth of companies.