HP CEO Meg Whitman only knows how to cut costs by squeezing employee salaries through outsourcing and insourcing cheap labor instead of growing the business through solid R&D and planning. If we look at HP products lately they just contract Foxconn to copy Apple designs and put the HP logo on the back. When's the last time we saw an innovative HP product. HP is barely holding on the PC market vs Lenovo.
The problem with the PC market is you are working with RAZER THIN PROFITS! Then go up against Chinese company's like Lenovo and now you can't even make a profit. People want their cheap $200-$400 computers. You see the same thing happening with Android and that market will thin out. What R&D are they going to do to change a Windows PC that people would want to put it and pay the higher cost?
The point is you're company has to always be moving forward. Innovating so you have a future and not just relying on what you did in the past and expect that to keep you around forever. Maybe Apple is working on a car, maybe not. The future is Electric Cars. Is it smart for Apple to built their own cars? I don't know, maybe Car Systems for others to use. Creating your own content is the future then relying on others. That's Android, Everyone relying on Google!!! Netflix see's this and is expanding with their own. It'll be like HBO, Original programming mixed with content from others. Why not Apple? iPad sales have dropped. how long can the iPhone sales continue to go up? What if in the future, the iphone drops like Blackberry? If you you have all your eggs in that basket, you're screwed.
Your screwed when you take your eyes off the road. I am not saying to rest on your laurels and milk the iPhone forever (that is what has killed MS, using different products of course). But original TV content is not in Apple's core competency and is not what they should be wasting money on. Coming up with the next must-have killer device or iPhone replacement is.
And I seriously doubt the near (next 20 years) future is electric cars. May take even longer, 30 or 40 years, for electric cars to replace petro-fueled (including NG powered) vehicles. And they may never. Fuel cells or something may come along (electric car = battery driven / stored electricty electric car and not fuel cell powered electric car).
The problem with the PC market is you are working with RAZER THIN PROFITS! Then go up against Chinese company's like Lenovo and now you can't even make a profit. People want their cheap $200-$400 computers. You see the same thing happening with Android and that market will thin out. What R&D are they going to do to change a Windows PC that people would want to put it and pay the higher cost?
Maybe get out of the PC market? The PC market is a loser market. Why stay in it if you are not set up to compete in it?
How long before we start seeing such articles about Apple? I would think at least 5 years, but all this talk of original TV content development, Apple cars*, and a lot of other things that will end up being money pit distractions compared to the core competencies of Apple, and achievable at the scale Apple needs as a large company.
Apple doesn't have anywhere near as many employees. They're also in much better financial shape. As the article mentions, about half of those employees are retail. Apple would have to lay off roughly two-thirds of their retail staff to the number of HP layoffs. The arstechnica chart is a little misleading. It mentions Apple retail for contextual reasons, yet it doesn't mention how many Samsung employees are tied to manufacturing facilities.
Isn't this a great time for Apple to cherry pick a few good employees?
Didn't they do this when blackberry let a bunch of people go a while back?
Maybe, but these are all employees who not associated with the new IT-based company Whitman will lead... so I doubt Apple would be interested in hiring paper pushers and middle managers.
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HP CEO Meg Whitman only knows how to cut costs by squeezing employee salaries through outsourcing and insourcing cheap labor instead of growing the business through solid R&D and planning. If we look at HP products lately they just contract Foxconn to copy Apple designs and put the HP logo on the back. When's the last time we saw an innovative HP product. HP is barely holding on the PC market vs Lenovo.
The problem with the PC market is you are working with RAZER THIN PROFITS! Then go up against Chinese company's like Lenovo and now you can't even make a profit. People want their cheap $200-$400 computers. You see the same thing happening with Android and that market will thin out. What R&D are they going to do to change a Windows PC that people would want to put it and pay the higher cost?
The point is you're company has to always be moving forward. Innovating so you have a future and not just relying on what you did in the past and expect that to keep you around forever. Maybe Apple is working on a car, maybe not. The future is Electric Cars. Is it smart for Apple to built their own cars? I don't know, maybe Car Systems for others to use. Creating your own content is the future then relying on others. That's Android, Everyone relying on Google!!! Netflix see's this and is expanding with their own. It'll be like HBO, Original programming mixed with content from others. Why not Apple? iPad sales have dropped. how long can the iPhone sales continue to go up? What if in the future, the iphone drops like Blackberry? If you you have all your eggs in that basket, you're screwed.
Your screwed when you take your eyes off the road. I am not saying to rest on your laurels and milk the iPhone forever (that is what has killed MS, using different products of course). But original TV content is not in Apple's core competency and is not what they should be wasting money on. Coming up with the next must-have killer device or iPhone replacement is.
And I seriously doubt the near (next 20 years) future is electric cars. May take even longer, 30 or 40 years, for electric cars to replace petro-fueled (including NG powered) vehicles. And they may never. Fuel cells or something may come along (electric car = battery driven / stored electricty electric car and not fuel cell powered electric car).
The problem with the PC market is you are working with RAZER THIN PROFITS! Then go up against Chinese company's like Lenovo and now you can't even make a profit. People want their cheap $200-$400 computers. You see the same thing happening with Android and that market will thin out. What R&D are they going to do to change a Windows PC that people would want to put it and pay the higher cost?
Maybe get out of the PC market? The PC market is a loser market. Why stay in it if you are not set up to compete in it?
How long before we start seeing such articles about Apple? I would think at least 5 years, but all this talk of original TV content development, Apple cars*, and a lot of other things that will end up being money pit distractions compared to the core competencies of Apple, and achievable at the scale Apple needs as a large company.
Apple doesn't have anywhere near as many employees. They're also in much better financial shape. As the article mentions, about half of those employees are retail. Apple would have to lay off roughly two-thirds of their retail staff to the number of HP layoffs. The arstechnica chart is a little misleading. It mentions Apple retail for contextual reasons, yet it doesn't mention how many Samsung employees are tied to manufacturing facilities.
Didn't they do this when blackberry let a bunch of people go a while back?
Isn't this a great time for Apple to cherry pick a few good employees?
Didn't they do this when blackberry let a bunch of people go a while back?
Maybe, but these are all employees who not associated with the new IT-based company Whitman will lead... so I doubt Apple would be interested in hiring paper pushers and middle managers.