In the midst of an unremarkable summary of the state of the Microsoft-Intel alliance, The Economist has a remarkable graphic (click for full size):
I was surprised by …
- IBM’s net income: Do they really deliver that much value?
- Apple has a lot more employees than I’d imagined. They’re more than 1/3 of Microsoft’s head count!
- How many people work for Apple, Google and Intel (non-consulting companies). In each case I’d have guessed a fraction of this total. (I knew Microsoft had a huge head count)
It takes a lot of people to run a tech company …
