Apple Has 500 Employees in Korea, Supports 325,000 Jobs in Country

[kemal]

Well, yes. There is considerable talent there! But, what is up? Seoul about to hit Apple with a big tax liability?

 

[Axemantitan]

For those curious, 4.7 trillion Won is nearly 3.9 billion US Dollars.

 

[pika2000]

Likely Sammy’s employees...

Don’t be so sure. Samsung’s own marketing team are using iPhones.

 

[Gasu E.]

What? Where did Apple take credit for creating Samsung jobs?

They are taking credit for jobs making the components they buy from their suppliers. Which, to be fair, they rightfully should. Of course, it would be nice if they "showed their math."
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Software engineers are going to make apps regardless of platform. Apple didn't create those jobs anymore than Microsoft.

If people shifted away from iOS to Android or Linux or something not yet created, those jobs will still exist making apps for another OS.

You imply that Apple products did not significantly define and expand the market for smartphones.

 

[mi7chy]

Cut back on the marketing and address the real issues like greedy prices that cause shrinking marketshare and a dying app ecosystem. Without marketshare, developers suffer and you end up with a graveyard of abandoned apps like Pythonista that hasn't been updated since 2017.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pythonista-3/id1085978097

 

[Williesleg]

Oh Tim Apple.
So misguided, doing so much evil.
We don't feel good about buying apple anymore.
Too much underpaid worker crap.

 

[tooltalk]

I like how Apple takes credit for creating those Samsung jobs. The marketing spin is real

considering that Apple accounts for less than ~5% of Samsung Electron's overall sale, I just don't know how they came up with the nebulous figure. Samsung's high tech component business is nothing like Apple's Foxconnn assembly lines. Samsung's assembly lines are in Vietnam.

 

[ShinySteelRobot]

It's like me saying that because I like to travel there are 500 people that would have been out of work this year if I hadn't taken a vacation.

You're drawing a false equivalency here. Your airplane ticket and tips to the waiter aren't creating any jobs. OTOH, if you pumped hundreds of millions or billions of dollars into the travel industry (as Apple does the computer industry) then you could legitimately claim you're creating jobs.

 

[AppleHaterLover]

Apple is really saving the world, isn't it?

Next up, Apple employee and job count in:

North Korea
Venezuela
Argentina
Iraq
Afghanistan

 

[sahnjuro]

So much fluff in that jobs claim that it's a virtually meaningless distortion. And most are NOT paid Apple's high wages back in the USA.

 

[jerryk]

Software engineers are going to make apps regardless of platform. Apple didn't create those jobs anymore than Microsoft.

If people shifted away from iOS to Android or Linux or something not yet created, those jobs will still exist making apps for another OS.

Disagree with that. As someone who making apps in the pre-iPhone days I can say that Apple largely create the App market. Before the App Store the number of developers making application for BlackBerry, Palm, and Windows Phones was tiny.

The best thing that happen to Apple is some of the senior execs threatened to quit when Jobs wanted to lock the iPhone to apps only made by Apple.

 

[andrewgasson]

The Apple store in Seoul is probably the busiest one I’ve visited worldwide. It’s literally shoulder to shoulder in there during the weekend. I wouldn’t be surprised if apple opened additional stores in Korea soon.​

 

[Alan Wynn]

I like how Apple takes credit for creating those Samsung jobs. The marketing spin is real

Not sure why you think this is spin. Apple is a big customer of Samsung’s and there a quite a few jobs there dependent on Apple’s business.

 

[ipponrg]

Not sure why you think this is spin. Apple is a big customer of Samsung’s and there a quite a few jobs there dependent on Apple’s business.

If you worked with (or in) Samsung Korea, you would know those jobs would exist regardless if Apple was around or not. Samsung works with a ton of vendors in many countries.

 

[FFR]

If you worked with (or in) Samsung Korea, you would know those jobs would exist regardless if Apple was around or not. Samsung works with a ton of vendors in many countries.

Well that depends, Samsung Electronics isn’t doing to well lately. Don’t think that statement holds true today.

 

[Alan Wynn]

If you worked with (or in) Samsung Korea, you would know those jobs would exist regardless if Apple was around or not. Samsung works with a ton of vendors in many countries.

Are you arguing that Samsung employs people without regard to their revenue and sales? When Apple replaced Samsung as the manufacturer of their A-series chip, as an example, it had no impact on the number of employees?