Do you really know what "per employee" in that sentence means?
It's also interesting to see that Valve is being praised for "giving 70%" while Apple is being flamed for "taking 30%" when I read the news
Meh, Steam rules anyway.
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| Author: | hegyak [ Saturday, 19 Feb 2011, 00:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Valve more profitable per employee than Google, Apple |
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/porta ... es;title;1 Valve wins. Flawless victory. |
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| Author: | best_matrix07 [ Saturday, 19 Feb 2011, 00:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Valve more profitable per employee than Google, Apple |
hegyak wrote: Flawless victory. Fatality ! |
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| Author: | PeJpepiG [ Saturday, 19 Feb 2011, 00:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Valve more profitable per employee than Google, Apple |
Where's the surprise? Can't find it... |
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| Author: | Steve Jobs [ Saturday, 19 Feb 2011, 00:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Valve more profitable per employee than Google, Apple |
Do you really know what "per employee" in that sentence means? It's also interesting to see that Valve is being praised for "giving 70%" while Apple is being flamed for "taking 30%" when I read the news Meh, Steam rules anyway. |
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| Author: | ChrisTX [ Saturday, 19 Feb 2011, 01:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Valve more profitable per employee than Google, Apple |
You can't compare that. Apple and Google do have much bigger departments for services that don't generate revenue. Both need definitely more customer relations, for Google primarily business clients, for Apple retail ones. Plus, the bigger your companies' offices are, the more security, cleaning ecetera stuff you need. Or R&D devisions (ok, Google not so much). Comparing the revenue per employee is something one can't do to give out figures of any value. It really highly depends on the business, the kind of offered services and all that. Lastly, there's the most obvious mistake in that logic: Let's say you have company A with 500 employees generating $5,000,000/pm in revenues, and being paid $2,000/pm each and company B with 50 employees generating $600,000/pm in revenues with the same payment. That'd be $12,000 vs $10,000 in per employee income. Subtracting their wages - $10,000 and $8,000 in operating income/employee - that's $4,000,000/pm vs $500,000/pm in revenues. Point is, more employees with less revenue/employee can still generate a lot more money. Durp Derp wrote: It's also interesting to see that Valve is being praised for "giving 70%" while Apple is being flamed for "taking 30%" when I read the news Maybe you should point out that in their markets, the standards are a little inverted: Where Valve operates, taking 70% is the normal case; where Apple operates, taking nothing to little (ie Android - 10%) is the common case. Yet, I won't even make the case of Google appearing any more competitive here, either. |
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| Author: | Steve Jobs [ Saturday, 19 Feb 2011, 02:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Valve more profitable per employee than Google, Apple |
ChrisTX wrote: [...] where Apple operates, taking nothing to little (ie Android - 10%) is the common case. Nah, taking 30% is the shit these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_di ... _platforms |
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| Author: | ChrisTX [ Saturday, 19 Feb 2011, 17:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Valve more profitable per employee than Google, Apple |
Durp Derp wrote: Nah, taking 30% is the shit these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_di ... _platforms A bit off-topic, but you got that wrong, the media is not bashing Apple for that. It's about a cut for paid content subscription offers. Paul Thurrott explains it quite well: http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/pau ... backs.aspx http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/pau ... -Plan.aspx |
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| Author: | Steve Jobs [ Saturday, 19 Feb 2011, 18:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Valve more profitable per employee than Google, Apple |
ChrisTX wrote: It's about a cut for paid content subscription offers. Crap, you got me. |
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