Point taken Karthikeyan. Nice example +1

The correct figure was 19 billion USD ( 3 billion USD in cash + 16 billion USD of FB stock) . It has to be remembered here, that this was a pre-emptive strike by Facebook to prevent any other company from reaching the same proportion as its own.

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Companies now a days price the product not based on a fixed profit margin but on the perceived value of the customers. As apple knows that its customers are ready to pay a huge amount to obtain its product , it keeps its price high. As an individual if you ask me  I prefer android phones over i-phone.

Not exactly , the best example is a cigarette pack even after the fact posted that smoking it will cause lung cancer does not reduce the preference for it by large extent.