07-23-2009, 09:41 PM
http://www.thebusinessjournal.com/index....-jobs.html
So Apple has 1/10 of the market, but 1/3 of the profits of Microsoft. To be fair, Apple is in some different businesses that are extremely profitable, but to counter that, Microsoft has tried to be in most of those same businesses and failed horribly. They haven't tried to make a phone yet, but I think that they've tried everything else that Apple is doing.
Microsoft's earnings sank to $3.05 billion, or 34 cents per share, from $4.3 billion, or 46 cents per share, in the same period last year.
So Apple has 1/10 of the market, but 1/3 of the profits of Microsoft. To be fair, Apple is in some different businesses that are extremely profitable, but to counter that, Microsoft has tried to be in most of those same businesses and failed horribly. They haven't tried to make a phone yet, but I think that they've tried everything else that Apple is doing.