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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (138460)	1/22/2018 9:19:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 220222

With US$1.5 million in revenue per employee being common, there is a lot of money voltage for customer cash: As it turns out, based on data from Visual Capitalist, Apple employees bring in the most revenue among tech companies, with each employee bringing in an average of $US1.85 million in revenue. The next closest company on the list is Facebook, which makes about $US1.62 million in revenue per employee, and then Google’s parent company Alphabet, which makes about $US1.25 million per employee. Read more at businessinsider.com Profit is less per employee but there's lots on the table. So there's lots of competition coming from the lean and hungry hordes in China and India and everywhere where there's an internet connection. Competing away margins is normal where barriers to entry are low. Economies of scale and network effect give the biggies the advantage but they invariably waste that. Motorola, L M Ericsson, Nokia and many others have all been huge and dominant with all the advantage but piddled it away. Mao's Maelstrom was child's play compared with what's going on now in the Cyberspace revolution which is now a few decades old since Big Blue was the supposedly monopolist behemoth, ending as an also-ran. I always thought the industrial revolution and the 20th century were phenomenal, but that was just the warm up act for the main event. The industrial revolution replaced our and animal muscles but the Cyberspace revolution is superseding our brains. One software Geek can manage a billion autonomous cars once his code is downloaded at zero marginal cost per vehicle to perform some essential function such as battery management or data reporting back to base or whatever. China has natural economies of scale giving a huge advantage. A single language for a start [more or less]. But there's a risk that they end up as a cul de sac as Japan did. The rest of the world uses the lingua franca aka english. That's not changing any time soon. Mqurice