Apple’s great value increase is about more than one company. It reflects the economic shift away from industrialism toward information. For companies to grow, and prosper they MUST begin thinking like tech companies, dropping interest in “hard assets” and “industrial processes” and adopt the new competitive mantle of information and the technology built around information.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2012/04/14/why-your-company-must-become-a-tech-company-apple-amazon-facebook-instagram-lessons/