[citation][nom]kitsura[/nom]Did you even look at the link?Its directly from Samsung.. outlining how many people they employ and a listing of their companies worldwide and in the USA.I imagine after looking at the number of people Samsung employs the number of jobs in the USA would be sizable.. Also the quality of the Samsung jobs would be far better than the 300 retail (highly paid but still retail) jobs you speak so highly of.. While Cupertino is a large campus the 7 facilities Samsung operates in the USA are equally grand.. Give it a rest.. Apple is so valuable because people pay sums of money they should be outraged at.. when a company makes the margins Apple makes on their products they shouldn't be celebrated they should be seen as what they are.. gouging their consumers,,, People are outrages by big oils profit margins..[/citation]
Yea, I looked at the link but I sure as hell did not see any numbers. Just different parts of a corporation. Sure, they have some different campuses but that says nothing about the number of people employed. You seem confused. The "300 retail jobs" your refer to are retail stores, but that is just the retail side of Apple. There is also the R&D which take place in Cupertino, and the new data center they just built. You use terms like: "imagine," "equally grand," etc. These are mere words that have no basis of fact.
You are wrong on your facts regarding profits. Apple is ranked 20th, whereas Microsoft comes in at 10th place. What does that tell you about MS?
Facts are here. With Nestle at #1, then people should be pissed as hell knowing that they are being ripped off buying that chocolate bar. Look at the highest R&D in the world and Apple is ranked 7th and is behind the likes of IBM, GE, Dupont, 3M and when it came to Masters of Innovation in Techonolgy...Apple was ranked higher than Samsung. Bottom line: US companies kick-ass on our global competitors, and if Apple just so happens to beat-up the folks from South Korea (Samsung,) then embrace it!
Apple makes money, invests in R&D, is innovative, and gives the consumers what they want. Knock them if you like, but the fact is that Apple is a very successful corporation that knows how to market it's products, produces quality merchandise and, more importantly, they are great at anticipating what the consumers want.