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2010-05-27 Science & Technology

Apple overtakes Microsoft as biggest tech company

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Posted by Fred 2010-05-27 10:08|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Microsoft: 93,000 employees.
Apple: 34,000 employees including those in around 300 retail stores.

I know which one adds more wealth to the US and which one adds more to China.

Posted by ed 2010-05-27 12:39|| 2010-05-27 12:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh please, they both add wealth, and to both countries.

Where do you think all those PCs are made? Not here in the US, that's for sure.

Posted by Steve White 2010-05-27 12:59|| 2010-05-27 12:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Microsoft doesn't build PC's. Except for a few devices (mice, keyboards, etc..) they mostly develop software.

Apple on the other hand builds computers, and sophisticated devices like the Ipod, Ipad, Iphone, Itoaster, Ispouse, etc...

This is kind of like comparing apples and oranges.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-05-27 13:32|| 2010-05-27 13:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Just remember this when the left raises it ugly head exploiting the number of suicides in the military during the war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-27 15:09|| 2010-05-27 15:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Steve, incomes for both companies are within one billion of each other. One has 3X the number of employees (almost all in the USA) and I suspect better paid too since it would have a higher percentage of technical positions. Now which company do you honestly think adds more to the USA's wealth?

Posted by ed 2010-05-27 15:14|| 2010-05-27 15:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Apple on the other hand builds computers, and sophisticated devices like the Ipod, Ipad, Iphone, Itoaster, Ispouse, etc...

You misspelled "Foxconn."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-27 16:19|| 2010-05-27 16:19|| Front Page Top

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