And yet after viewing the OP, I have a lasting feeling of the difference and will more likely remember the disparities.

I just viewed the OP 15 minutes ago and I have no idea how much revenue any of the companies made. I know Samsung and Apple were near the top and Blackberry was near the bottom, but I already knew that! If it had been a simple table with numbers I'd still remember them.

You could always use non-zero-based bar graph for that feeling of the difference.

I liked the presentation, but I think I would have preferred a dynamic bar graph, where each bar grows at the rate relevant for that company, starting from zero. It would keep all the data on the screen and still show visually the differences.