苹果名气超谷歌 登顶最具价值品牌榜

Apple has overtaken Google as the world's most valuable brand, ending a four-year reign by the Internet search leader, according to a new study by global brands agency Millward Brown.

国际品牌调研机构明略行（Millward Brown）最新发布全球品牌排行榜，苹果成为全球最具价值品牌，结束了互联网搜索巨头谷歌连续四年雄踞榜首的历史。

The iPhone and iPad maker's brand is now worth $153 billion, almost half Apple's market capitalization, says the annual BrandZ study of the world's top 100 brands.

根据年度BrandZ全球最具价值品牌百强榜，苹果品牌价值高达1530亿美元，接近苹果公司市值的一半。iPhone 和iPad都是苹果公司旗下产品。

Apple's portfolioof coveted consumer goods propelled it past Microsoft to become the world's most valuable technology company last year.

去年，苹果凭借一系列受消费者喜爱的产品超过微软，成为全球市值最高的科技公司。

Peter Walshe, global brands director of Millward Brown, says Apple's meticulousattention to detail, along with an increasing presence of its gadgets in corporate environments, have allowed it to behave differently from other consumer-electronics makers.

明略行公司全球品牌总监彼得 沃尔什称，苹果对细节精益求精、推出的办公适用产品越来越多样，使其不同于其他电子产品制造商。

"Apple is breaking the rules in terms of its pricing model," he told the reporters by telephone. "It's doing what luxury brands do, where the higher price the brand is, the more it seems to underpin and reinforce the desire."

他在电话采访中说：“苹果正打破定价机制。它的做法类似于奢侈品牌。品牌越值钱，人们购买的欲望就越强烈。”

By contrast, one of the brands most threatened by Apple's rising popularity in offices took a big hit in the survey.

相比之下，受到苹果办公用品受好评冲击最大的黑莓品牌却在调查中表现不佳。

Research In Motion's BlackBerry brand lost a fifth of its brand value. Among technology companies, only Nokia's 28 percent decline was steeper.

动态研究公司（RIM）的黑莓品牌价值下跌了20%。在科技公司中，仅有诺基亚比它表现更糟，下跌了28%。