“Apple turned the world upside down on a ‘shoe string’ R&D budget, ‘minuscule’ by comparison to Intel, Microsoft and Cisco, yet so muscular in its effectiveness that it was frightening, arguably the best bang for the buck anywhere anytime,” Stephen Rosenman writes for Seeking Alpha.
“If you put all of Research In Motion, Nokia, Motorola, Hewlett Packard, Dell and MSFT R&D together, you still wouldn’t produce one hundredth the great stuff coming out of Apple,” Rosenman writes. “Apple develops market-dominating products on a bargain-basement R&D budget.”
Rosenman writes, “In fact, it’s getting better. Apple’s R&D as a percentage of sales has been dropping steadily, now equaling a tiny 2.24% sliver of revenue. Other technology companies allot a far greater share of their sales to R&D with the exception of HP (which has given up its innovative culture) and Dell (also not a powerhouse of creativity).”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Double07” for the heads up.]
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