In 2008, Fortune and its partners at Hay Group had a group of over 3,700 people from all possible industries to decide who's the best, and Apple got the following results - 1st place in the innovation, people management, and quality of products/services areas, 3rd place in use of corporate assets, quality of management, financial soundness, long-term investment, while their social responsability attribute got 5th place, but all these pushed them into the position of "most admired company" in America for the current year.In Fortune's view, Apple has shown the world "how to create real, breathtaking growth by dreaming up products so new and ingenious that they have disrupted one industry after another: consumer electronics, the record industry, the movie industry, video, and music production", but what I really want to see from Apple, is "how to get the crown from Microsoft's Windows in the OS market", but that's a very tough job, and it won't happen in a year or two...