Just 21 years after face near - bankruptcy , Apple Inc. just became the first in public traded company in historyto be worth $ 1 trillion . This means that Apple ’s securities industry cap is or so the same as the nominal GDP for Mexico , the world ’s 15th large thriftiness , according to the United Nations . It ’s a meaningless milepost in many ways , but it also catch me thinking . Did you screw thatthe 2001 dark fancy film Monkeybone(starring Brendan Fraser and Whoopi Goldberg ) is n’t on Netflix ? It is not .
Can you believe that ? !
A lot of the great unwashed calculate back to 2001 — which is not only the year that Monkeybone stumble theaters but also the yr that the iPod hit stores — as a turn point in human history . This is undoubtedly true for world-wide politics . The terrorist attacks of September 11 , 2001 , became the deadly blast on United States soil since Pearl Harbor and set up the country into an uncertain hereafter filled with awe , war , and eventually , President Donald Trump .
For consumer electronics , however , the year seemed more bright . Apple was tardily come back to life after a $ 150 million investment from Microsoft in 1997saved the party , and Steve Jobsrejoinedit as CEO . Jobs ordered his railroad engineer and a new interior designer named Jony I ve to make a music player , and finally , they came up with the iPod . But the iPod was more than an mp3 political machine . It served as the first glimpse at a young sort of gadget that could put inconceivable quantity of data in your pocket . The sleek and iconic design also introduced the worldly concern to a new earned run average for Apple , one that would shortly be defined not only be revolutionary product but also a skyrocketing line price . When the iPod was released in October 2001 , Apple ’s gunstock cost was hovering around $ 1.25 per percentage . On Thursday , it zoom past $ 207.05 to become a trillion dollar company .
But let ’s get back to the 2001 fateful drollery Monkeybone , star Brendan Fraser . Then just 32 - years - old , Fraser was at the meridian of his feature of speech film career having just asterisk in a threesome of legendary smash : The Mummy , Blast From the Past , and daze . In Monkeybone , Fraser play an embittered cartoonist nominate Stu who create a misdemean monkey named Monkeybone . Stu crashes his car and end up in a coma , but while he ’s out , Stu ’s spirit live to a freaky underworld call Down Town , where Whoopi Goldberg play a version of death and a young Rose McGowan fiddle a catgirl identify Ms. Kitty . It ’s a literal hoot .
Which makes it even more puzzling that Monkeybone does n’t have a permanent entry in the Netflix catalogue . Sure , the motion picture did not do well financially . Monkeybone had a budget of $ 75 million and bring in a small over $ 7.5 million at the box office . But it ’s brimming with star exponent and pure entertainment . Monkeybone director Henry Selick also take The Night Before Christmas , so the film ’s surreal jaunt through Down Town feature magical stop - gesture animation and lots of laughs . Bridget Fonda , daughter of Peter Fonda , also plays a medico at a eternal sleep therapy clinic and Stu ’s love interest . Even Chris Kattan is even in this picture show . He plays a cadaver . So despite a star - studded cast , the film ’s poor loge function showing might mean that Netflix could secure the streaming rights to Monkeybone for a unspoiled toll .
It all makes you inquire . Now that Apple is basically the most valuable company in the history of the galaxy , what will it do ? Will it invent the next humans - changing gadget and become worth more than even the United States of America ? Or will it fabricate its own movie streaming armed service to compete with Netflix by offering the kinds of photographic film that citizenry deeply crave , moving picture like Monkeybone . At present , Apple has $ 243.7 billionin cash on hand . It can in all likelihood give to buy the rights to every single Brendan Fraser film , admit not only Monkeybone but also the 1992 paleo - phantasy comedy Encino Man . Then , Apple could just put those things on iTunes and charge multitude $ 9 a month or whatever to watch them . This is a great idea , and it ’s aboveboard awkward for Apple that I even have to suggest it .
Your move , Tim .
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