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The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple
orenh writes "Recent data indicate that Apple engineers have significantly lower salaries than their Silicon Valley peers: $89,000 at Apple, versus $105,000 at Yahoo and $112,000 at Google. Paying lower salaries had a major impact on Apple's bottom line when it was struggling in the market up until 2004. But now that Apple is highly profitable, these lower salaries are no longer a factor in Apple's success. Will Apple have to raise salaries to match the market rate, or face defections?"
YES. Pretty much anyone who runs vista is clueless or knows the shit they're getting into. I'm still milking my Win2k and XP keys until they won't work anymore. The 2k ones still work though, so that's my default install. Windows 2000 is the best OS M$ ever released. Dos 2.11 was pretty good too.
No, just motivated.
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Also note that Steve Jobs has been known to post on the Internet with the username "Graff."
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
a) an idiot
b) a fanboy
c) a stupid kid without a clue
d) all of the above
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I used to work for a reseller, and let me tell you, at least here where I live, apparently there is a growing dissatisfaction between consumers. Apple try to charge for: ipod touch firmware upgrades, 802.11n drivers (which are free if they use windows), had terrible bugs in leopard server, and finally, they also decided to offshore their Applecare department to india, and now customers are complaining they paid money to hang on the line for 20minutes, only to be put through to someone who has no idea and is reading from a script. Obviously that was cheap for them.. Apple could previously screw around the home market, and keep them happy with excuses, but it doesn't work the same way on businesses who don't take the same BS which Apple feeds them.
And you can speak to any distributor who deals with Apple, or anyone in ordering, and they will all tell you that Apple really is the dodgiest vendor to deal with out there. And I have gotten the impression that Apple has a very high staff turnover rate.
In one/many cases, we were broken news by Apple, and you could tell by the look of their face that they disagreed ENTIRELY with what they were telling us, but were forced to do so. I have the feeling their recent high staff turnover rates may be affecting their salaries too. I have no proof of course about the staff turnover, but I have seen some great evidence.
When Apple starts testing OSX on 300 different CPU configurations , 500 different motherboards, 150 different kinds of ram, 2000 different hard disks, 50 different sound cards, 300 different monitors, then we can have a talk, about who can produce better quality software.
While you continue to troll on slashdot, microsoft keeps on raking up billions in revenue. If thats the definition of "in trouble" , "doomed" or other phrases the fine folk here come up with, I'd like to be "doomed" too
Why dont you get off your ass, learn programming if yout dont know already, help out some OSS project. Volunteer to work on the open office team. I guess bitching is more productive..
Feel free to attack me, call me a fanboy, troll and ignore my arguments.