Re: For decades, Apple has had the highest marketing and the worst (lowest) R&D in all of high tech

On 2024-07-10 18:44, Andrew wrote:

No high tech company spends *less* than Apple in R&D, proportionate to
revenue (and a vast number of far smaller companies spend more in toto).

False.

 It has been widely known by intelligent well-informed people, that, for
decades, Apple has had the highest marketing & lowest R&D spend of all high
tech - which even Steve Jobs openly admitted many times as covered prior.
   *Does it surprise you Apple spends less in R&D*
  *(proportionate to revenue) than similar tech companies?*
  <https://groups.google.com/g/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/c/STrAkx09VYk/>

Why is proportionality important?
R&D is done in relation to PRODUCTS.
A company doesn't become more innovative if its revenues drop and it doesn't become less innovative if its revenues rise.

 The question is whether or not Apple still has the bottom-of-the barrel
lowest R&D spend based on percentage of revenue of all similar companies?
 NOTE: The ignorant uneducated Apple religious zealots will scream to defend
Apple's atrocious R&D spending but they lack the math skills to take into
account the size of Apple where companies 1/100th Apple's size spend more
in total dollars, let alone similarly sized companies' spend in percentage.
 Also note the ignorant Apple religious zealots are incapable of clicking on
links; so they'll claim that's "just a thread", which discounts the scores
of well-researched well-publicized cites in that thread.
 Lastly, note the Apple zealots will brazenly lie to protect Apple's honor
because they *hate* that Apple is all marketing and no R&D - where they
will claim the total is more than companies which are 1/100th Apple's size
(which simply proves that Apple spends almost nothing proportionality in
R&D).

Again, the simple fact is that many companies spend far more than Apple on marketing.