Contractor or regular employee?
For how long have you worked there?
Do you have management authority or do you make hiring or purchase decisions?
All questions are in earnest -- I've never seen a current employee of a place bashing it so much in a public forum before...
Cheers!
Contractor, off-and-on for about 4 years.
And I’m not bashing! Don’t confuse not participating in “rah rah cheerleading” with bashing. I’ve not denigrated the product, but at the same time I don’t idolize it. It does it’s job, it does it well, but no more so than many, MANY other options.
I look at product share in the market as a guide about what people want, what works. It’s the ultimate proof of value, of product success. Product share in the market kind of proves the point - for MOST people, non-Apple solutions ARE the best solution. That’s what they buy. Hard to argue with what the market chooses, in terms of what the average person thinks has the best value...
And I’ve never said Apple should have zero value; however, I’ve pointed out why I think the stock is way overblown - it has a higher market cap than Microsoft, yet has less revenue, less profit, a lower profit margin, and less dominance in its core markets than Microsoft. Apple, IMHO, should not have a higher market cap than Microsoft; that it does indicates, to me, that it’s in a bubble.
Take two companies:
- Company one has a higher revenue, higher profits in absolute dollars, higher profit margin, complete domination (90%+ penetration) of its core markets, which are growing at 20%+ per year.
- Company two has lower revenues, less profit, lower profit margin, is not in the top 5 in its core markets, is losing market share in half of its core markets, and those markets are growing at about 20% per year.
You tell me which company should have a higher value...
That’s not bashing, that’s not even negative - that’s simply an objective look at reality. The fact that such statements would be perceived as “bashing” shows just how zealous many of the Apple fans have become!