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It's difficult to say what they spend on Phone R&D, but Samsung spends about 11-12% on R&D in general. Huawei and Google clock in around 15% by public numbers
by Junk_Collector 7y ago
It's difficult to say what they spend on Phone R&D, but Samsung spends about 11-12% on R&D in general. Huawei and Google clock in around 15% by public numbers and Intel for comparison sits about 20%. Microsoft is somewhere around 12-13%.
Apple's total R&D spending is well below their contemporaries as a % of revenue.
- scarface74 7y agoSamsung has a lot more products and verticals as does Google. Looking at all of the money that Google spends on research - they still make 90% of their revenue on ad sales and have had a string of failures and also rans. No one can seriously argue that Apple’s ARM processor designs aren’t top notch, they just took over Intel’s modem division and they still depend on Intel for much of their computer hardware - except for the T2 chips that are part of their ARM designs What else do you propose that Apple spend money on? Horace Deidu just posted a graph on twitter showing that just their services revenue is larger than all of Apple’s revenue a decade ago.
- Junk_Collector 7y agoI'm not suggesting anything about Apple's quality of engineers or what they should spend money on. I am only observing that their R&D spending is below other companies that are considered in the same class or industry as a percent of revenue. Their spending (as percent) is approximately 1/3 of other phone makers, 1/3 of software developers, or 1/4 of other chipset manufacturers. These numbers are all very rough of course because, as you point out, all of these companies work in multiple sectors and R&D spending is not disclosed in that much detail.