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Under Jobs' leadership, Apple has done 10 times the amount of relevant homework of most companies — internal competitions, supply chain training, endless deal-m
by Zakharov 15y ago
Under Jobs' leadership, Apple has done 10 times the amount of relevant homework of most companies — internal competitions, supply chain training, endless deal-making, endless recruiting, training, and generating and sustaining employee excitement that you just can't fake.
If others emulated that, all of that, their results would be a lot more like Apple's.
Apple has fairly high profit margins on their products, and this allows them to spend more on development and marketing. I think a lot of companies wouldn't be able to support such a model.
- xal 15y agoyou are being downvoted because your comment has a fairly obvious chicken and egg problem which I don't think you fully reasoned to it's logical conclusion.
- harichinnan 15y agoI don't see the chicken and egg problem. The company has lots of money to spend on R&D. So they can spend money on competing ideas and choose winners. Not all companies have money to spend on R&D.
- bignoggins 15y agoand where does the company get the money to spend on R&D? That is the chicken and egg problem. That's like saying Warren Buffet is good at picking stocks because he is rich and can afford to spend more money picking stocks.
- rsynnott 15y agoGenerally by borrowing it, if they don't have a cash surplus.