Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 16:12:40 GMT References: <50144@ut-emx.uucp> <11977@hub.ucsb.edu> <1991Jun9.183551.3565@neon.Stanford.EDU><1991Jun10.042538.17724@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Life In Hell BBS, Sterling Heights, MI Lines: 40 es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >In article <1991Jun9.183551.3565@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Ev >>[Side note: The Research and Development figures are interesting] >> >>R&D 146,450 115,235 286,515 221,546 >> >> Looks like Apple might get close to $600 million on R&D this year. >> > That's up 27% for this quarter and 29% for the year. That >is very impressive, although it is likely that they will feel the >pinch from lower earnings, and 10% fewer employees. > Commodore's R&D is up 5% this quarter and 8% the last >three quarters. That keeps up slightly with inflation. However, >Commodore spent 5.5% of what Apple did this quarter and 8.3% of >what Apple spent the last two quarters over the last three >quarters. (assuming those Apple numbers are in 1,000s.) > I did read a blurb in the Free Press that Apple was building a new assembly plant in Colorado because it just cost too damn much to do business in California...I would suspect Apple has alot of waste internally, seeing how thier chairman was paid US$17 MILLION, and good old Lee Iacocca who is the chairman of a $38 billion dollar company was only paid US$4 MILLION. And thats just the top guy at Apple, how about all the other fat cats that talk about hunting and fishing all day? Any company that goes through rapid grouth over a decade should really watch their weight, and keep competitive, because its a matter of time that the Japanese come in and do it cheaper and better, with their government taking the brunt of the losses until they dominate the U.S. market for that product...When this new assembly plant in Colorado goes online, how many units will Apple be able to crank out a year? Any stockholders out there have those numbers? How many workers in California will this new plant displace? When will the computer industry go over capacity in the 680x0 market? -- C-UseNet V0.42d Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say.