Posted on 09/13/2010 5:16:04 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple targets its R&D spending... Microsoft throws money at it. Apple gets results. Microsoft? Well, the results seem to speak for themselves.
Yes, they are guessing... and some guesses are worth money. Sometimes they are not. This one is NOT backed up.
Yes, they are guessing... and some guesses are worth money. Sometimes they are not. This one is NOT backed up.
By the way... Gartner's guesses have been way off the mark on guessing Apple's financials in EVERY Quarter for the last three years... way off. They've been off even two weeks out... guessing way low.
WOW! disagreeing with Driftdiver and Pugetsoundsoldier are the equivalent of personal attacks... requiring apologies and admissions. You have an exaggerated opinion of your opinions. In a word. NO.
I'm not just talking minor innovation, which happens all the time in the tech industry. I'm talking about game changers, and RIM and Apple are the only two companies I can think of who have done that in the last ten years. Suggestions are welcome, of course.
BTW, to be fair, I should mention the Apple failure in phones, the Moto ROKR. That's Apple's fault for doing a product in a non-Apple fashion, basically pulling a Microsft Zune and slapping their name and services on someone else's existing product. Correcting for the ROKR disaster resulted in the iPhone.
Funny, you claim to support capitalism and the free market and then attack anyone who doesn’t worship apple.
This article is FUD, nothing more.
It is really sad. Microsoft was a great company. Everybody used their BASICs, Xenix rocked, and the OS/BASIC combo for the TRS-80 Model 100 was just fantastic. I was a Microsoft fan. I think things started going downhill with Gates stopped coding and started managing full-time.
“This one is NOT backed up. “
You’re right, the content of this article is not backed up and is pure FUD.
OH BS, driftdiver... how can claiming a company that has been climbing, is continuing to climb, and is now the #2 company in the world is going to continue that climb and over take the #1 company in the world (that really has no place to continue to climb)) be claimed to be FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt)???? This is merely recognizing a continuation of a five year trend. Your denying it and calling it FUD is your pure unadulterated Apple Derangement Syndrome.
Also, Apple is willing to take big risks. The iPod was heavily criticized when it first came out, people said the tablet market never worked and never could, and of course the retail stores were supposed to be a really dumb idea. The iTunes Store was supposed to fail because nobody would pay for online music when it could just be downloaded free P2P. All of those have been immensely profitable, but should have flopped according to conventional wisdom, costing Apple dearly.
I guess it helped that Jobs went from startup (Apple) to startup (NeXT) to buying a tiny young company (Pixar) and never lost that culture. Gates sat at Microsoft for about 30 years. He got fat and slow, and so did the company.
I keep thinking of new things. There is another reason Microsoft spends more, and it’s not bad, but shows how the R&D doesn’t necessarily equate to better Microsoft products.
Microsoft does a lot of XEROX PARC kind of work that may never be used for profit, but still is quite interesting. Take PhotoSynth for example. I’ve done 360 degree panoramas for a long time, taking multiple pictures, carefully stitching, etc. PhotoSynth took it to a whole new level. I wonder how much that R&D cost. Microsoft also develops a lot of things in conjunction with universities, so a bunch of the R&D money may be going there too.
Microsoft is a better member of the community than Apple, for sure. That isn’t really what investors are looking for.
#2 company in the world? BP spent more on the oil spill than Apple had total revenue.
BP claims to have spent over $8 billion on the cleanup so far. Logically, that would mean under $9 billion, otherwise BP would have stated over $9 billion.
Apple had $15.7 billion in total revenue in just the third quarter of this year.
We do check these claims, you know.
Hey if Sword and Stripe can make up numbers so can I.
I have made up absolutely NO numbers—nor has Stripes1776—I have sources for every one of the figures I posted. I always do. He offered a hypothetical question, which YOU changed to a specific company. Only you have made up numbers. You do it as though what you posted are real facts and expect us to accept your falsehoods as real for the debate. That's called a straw man argument and is a logical fallacy. You do it repeatedly.
Yes and you are never wrong and you never make personal attacks. Unicorns really exist too!!!
Remember what I said about honesty and integrity starting at home... Look at your self, driftdiver. YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF THIS DISHONESTY.
ARBITRARY CODE EXECUTION
You did see that adobe based attack last week. The one that also impacted Mac.
BTW, defamation of character and slander. Watch for the knock on your door.
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