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 …
3 comments:
All lot of those Apple employees work in their retail stores.
IBM still makes a lot of money on legacy mainframe systems.
If Apple has 10 stores/state and 20 employees/store that would be 10,000 or so employees. Still leaves a lot but retail does explain a good chunk of their employee count.
Oh, and great link to the mainframe revenue numbers!
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