Apple Has Less Workforce in R&D Than Microsoft or RIM

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Posted March 30, 2012 at 5:42pm by iClarified

Apple has fewer employees dedicated to R&D than Microsoft or RIM, according to LinkedIn data posted by BusinessInsider.

RIM has 53% of its workforce in R&D compared to 51% for Microsoft and 39% for Apple.

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Apple Has Less Workforce in R&D Than Microsoft or RIM

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Russell - March 31, 2012 at 8:06pm

Was Apple's Research & Development and General & Administrative graphs transposed? In Microsoft's and RIMs charts, R&D and G&A are first and second. But in Apple's it's reversed.

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tdtran1025 - March 30, 2012 at 10:23pm

I agree with Russel in the stats. Yet when comparing apples, the apples at Apple are iconically more desirable.

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Russell - March 30, 2012 at 6:30pm

The article is not doing a true "apples to apples" comparison. Apple has way more retail employees (and employees supporting them) than Microsoft or RIM. If you take away those employees, the percentage of R&D employees will go up.

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dancj - March 30, 2012 at 6:38pm

My thought exactly

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joyz - March 30, 2012 at 8:08pm

What has retail employees got to do with RD? More to the point what are the 53% doing for blackberry

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Mike - March 31, 2012 at 12:15am

Because the more retail employees (or any other type of employees) they have the smaller the percentage of employees are R&D. Eg if apple has 10,000 R&D and 90,000 other employees, that 10%. While RIM might have 5000 R&D but only 10,000 other employees meaning they have 33% R&D. Really they should have absolute numbers in this.

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joyz - March 31, 2012 at 10:23am

Ya I get it now. I'm still curious as what the 53% have been doing for RIM? Shooting moose in the Rockies?

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