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?"

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Re:Will Apple have to raise salaries?

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if anything, vista has helped apple computer become even more popular as a consumer brand, and if you are banking on windows 7 being any better than vista, well... nothing is impossible, but all the snow in hell won't stop microsoft from being microsoft... they've done things the same basic way since they were founded... windows 95 was bad, win 98 better, win me was bad, win2k/xp better, vista was bad, windows 7 will be better, windows 8 will suck, then windows 9 will get it Wow.. Did you do you "research" from polling your 5 co-workers and 2 friends? I guess people expect Microsoft to write drivers for their video card too.

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. :)

i was reading a review site the other day, and directx9 ran almost everything faster than directx 10. yet another reason to avoid vista. Lol.. "directx" is not slower, the games written are. you're too stupid to waste time explaining anything more than that.

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. :(