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.
Check out the charts below...
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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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