Apple’s Now Worth A Trillion Dollars: Here’s What You Could Buy with All of That Cash

Apple made history this week. The Cupertino tech giant hit the $1 trillion market valuation milestone — becoming the first publicly traded U.S. company to do so.

But a trillion is a lot. It’s incredibly hard to comprehend just how much that is. As USA Today points out, a billion seconds ago is around 1995. But a trillion seconds ago is 30,000 B.C.

Thinking about it monetarily: if Apple’s $1 trillion were made up of dollar bills, it would take about 31,546 years to count each one. Apple’s market valuation is also higher than the GDP of 174 countries (not combined, but still).

But the best way to visualize $1 trillion is to think about what you could buy with it if it were sitting in your bank. Use the right arrow to browse just a few of the outrageous purchases you could make.

7 A Billion iPhone Xs

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Apple's iPhone X is the company's most expensive smartphone to date, with a price tag of $999 for the base model. But with $1 trillion in your pocket, you could buy a billion iPhone X devices.

That’s enough to give every single person in the U.S. three handsets. It's also more than enough to cover the entire population of Europe, with a few hundred thousand devices to spare. Of course, it’s not quite enough to do the same for China or India.

6 All of the Sports Teams

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Wealthy people seem to like buying sports teams. It is, of course, a pretty good indicator that someone is doing well for themselves. But if you’re a trillionaire, why settle for just one team?

With $1 trillion, you could buy the entire NFL franchise, which is worth roughly $45 billion. With the rest of your cash, you could also buy the MLB, NBA, NHL — and NASCAR and still have over $750 billion left.

5 740 Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Sea Cruise Ships

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You could, of course, settle for a standard private yacht. But if you're packing $1 trillion dollars, you don't have to. The most expensive yacht in the world, the History Supreme, is valued at around $4.5 billion.

It's not particularly large, but it's crafted with 220,000 pounds of solid gold and platinum. Feeling luxurious yet? With Apple's market valuation, you can buy 222 of them. If you'd like a larger boat, you could pick up 740 of the most expensive cruise ships ever built, the Royal Carribean's Symphony of the Sea?

4 2,000 Airbus 380 Commercial Airliners

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Have you ever dreamed of owning a private jet? With $1 trillion, you could make that a reality pretty easily. But you don't just have to get yourself a Gulfstream. The most expensive jet in the world is the Airbus 380, valued at about $500 million.

The Airbus 380 is a big plane. On commercial flights, it can hold up to 800 passengers, but you'd have it all to yourself. It's literally fit for a prince, seeing as Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud owns it. You could buy two thousand of them.

3 76,923 Rolls-Royce Sweptails

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The Rolls-Royce Sweptail, at $13 million, is one of the most expensive cars in the world. With $1 trillion in your pocket, you could potentially buy 76,923 of them (if that many existed).

If you have the need for speed, you could look at the Hennessy Venom F5. It's currently the fastest car in the world with a top speed of 301 mph. It retails at $1.6 million, so you could buy 625,000 of them.

2 Housing for the Entire Bay Area

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The Bay Area is notoriously expensive to live in — which has fueled an increasing housing crisis in the area. But with $1 trillion, you could buy every person in the city a nice-sized apartment.

If your tastes are feeling a little more sophisticated, take a look at the top 10 most expensive homes in the world. You could buy all of them pretty easily with Apple's $1 trillion market valuation.

1 8.3 Million Bachelor's Degrees

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If you’re feeling philanthropic, you could potentially pay for about 2 to 3 years of free public education for every student in the U.S. With education being so important, just think of it as an investment in the future.

You could also put about 8.3 million people through all four years of college at a private university (assuming each year's tuition is roughly about $30,000).