Apple Inc. (AAPL) is engaged in designing, manufacturing and marketing mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players. The Company’s products and services include iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod, Apple TV, a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications, the iOS and Mac OS X operating systems, iCloud, and a range of accessory, service and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its online stores, its retail stores, its direct sales force, third-party wholesalers, and resellers. Apple Inc. is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

It is expected that tomorrow’s results will show that the computer/tech giant has amassed more than $250 BILLION in cash. That figure means that Apple has doubled its massive reserve in less than five years.

That number is hard to comprehend, but tech writers–such as the excellent Christopher Mims— try to make it understandable. Some of Mims’ comparisons right now include the following:

1. It’s greater than the annual military budget of China
2. It’s greater than the market cap of Wal-Mart
3. It’s enough to pay for the annual illegal drug use of the US populatlon 2x AND still buy every bitcoin in existence.
4. It exceeds the foreign-currency reserves of the U.K. AND Canada COMBINED