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Apple's 2012 Annual Report: More Employees, More Office Space, More Sales
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And here I was hoping for an amazing Apple designed Annual Report doc for some design inspiration... instead I get a boring, realistic legal styled document full of text.
I blame Scott Forstall.
I blame Scott Forstall.
And we wonder why the 13" Macbook Pro Retina with 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD is $1700, about $800 over priced and at least $400 from anyone calling reasonable. PS.. its in stock everywhere but folks homes and I suspect it will remain that way
So here's what the Apple 10-K says about their investment portfolio:
Reading further, it the report breaks this down primarily as: money market funds, federal notes, municipal bonds, commercial debt, and commercial paper.
Reading further, it the report breaks this down primarily as: money market funds, federal notes, municipal bonds, commercial debt, and commercial paper.
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check the ebay part departament. Massive unibody macbook's magsafe board, and motherboard problems. Most apple sales come from software and apps. The only pieces of hardware, that are somehow OK : iphone, mac pro and imac. Apple almost left portable laptop market, since products are so flawed.
check the ebay part departament. Massive unibody macbook's magsafe board, and motherboard problems. Most apple sales come from software and apps. The only pieces of hardware, that are somehow OK : iphone, mac pro and imac. Apple almost left portable laptop market, since products are so flawed.
Too bad the sales folk don't get commission. They could be rich instead of being stuck in a job with almost no chance of promotion.
That's not a lot of jobs, especially compared to other companies with similar revenue, who easily employ four to ten times as many. Compare Apple to the top 50 largest employers in the US. Or the top 10.
But yes, it's better than a poke in the eye
In seperate news,BMW makes all it's money by servicing it's cars,it almost left the car manufacturing business since it's cars are so flawed
You see it is not even worth to take apart windows lappy, since market is full of cheap alternatives - tablets, notebooks and subcompact computers, basically disposables. It is only worth to take apart $1000 or $1700+ apple. But at some point you start thinking - why are you paying at least a $1000 for something, that will die in a year or so.
Yeah, I agree... the laptops are junk. I can only get about 5 years of daily use out of them before they have to be replaced. Sucks!
jobs???
how many of these are in China? Computers are made in China, US gets only service, communication, shipping jobs and some design.
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What models and when they are made???
how many of these are in China? Computers are made in China, US gets only service, communication, shipping jobs and some design.
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Yeah, I agree... the laptops are junk. I can only get about 5 years of daily use out of them before they have to be replaced. Sucks!
What models and when they are made???
Too bad the sales folk don't get commission. They could be rich instead of being stuck in a job with almost no chance of promotion.
I wouldn't want sales people up sell me every time I walk into a Apple store.
If they are un-happy at Apple they should look for abetter pay job else where. As you say, it's better than a poke in the eye
Totally!
Half a mil per employee, with an average "full-time equivalent" store employee earning $22,360 a year!
Turns out the hardware ain't the only place they have huge margins...
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Apple now has 42,800 "full-time equivalent" employees, up from 60,400 last year.
Nice proof-reading.
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Read Again friend.
Apple today filed its 2012 annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the document reveals a few interesting tidbits of information:
- Apple now has ...72,800...(not 42,800)... "full-time equivalent" employees, up from 60,400 last year. The company also went from employing 2,900 "full-time equivalent" temporary employees and contractors to 3,300. 42,400 "full-time equivalent" employees are in the retail division, up from 36,000 last year.
108.7 employees per store is quite a lot, I admit, but no matter how much time I spend looking around, I can never locate that .7 of an employee
That employee is part of the "fool"time employment equivalent
more than 100 people per store? Perhaps most of them are in back, working on hardware without a sight of daylight. This number includes full and part time people, hired for a month or so and people who work for at least a few years. There is no physical way to fit all these people in store on different 8 hour shifts.
And we wonder why the 13" Macbook Pro Retina with 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD is $1700, about $800 over priced and at least $400 from anyone calling reasonable. PS.. its in stock everywhere but folks homes and I suspect it will remain that way
its in stock because anyone who cared about a pricey computer with retina display already shed over 2000 on a 15 inch, and didnt complain about that price because id say its pretty damn fair. - myself included
I believe that's all the workers combined and that blows that number out of proportion. They all don't work in the Apple Stores. More like factories and call centers, outside the US.
Very few. Apple contracts for manufacture, rather than employing.
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Nope, retail only. Grab a calculator to prove it, I'm sure whatever device you type posts on has a calculator.
