Apple has cracked the top 10 list of the best companies to work for, alongside fellow tech giants Facebook and Google, according to a new employee survey.
Glassdoor.com released the results of its annual 2012 Employees' Choice awards, with Apple garnering a "Satisfied" rating of 3.9 out of 5, as pointed out by MacNN. Apple placed 20th in last year's survey with a score of 3.7 and came in 22nd in 2010.
Consulting firm Bain & Company took top honors, followed by McKinsey & Company. Facebook, which won the top spot last year, slipped to third place with a score of 4.3, while Google came in fifth with a score of 5.0.
Bain employees told Glassdoor that the sense of teamwork at the company made it the best company to work for, while Facebook employees said they enjoyed the deep "entrepreneurial environment" of the company.
The site used a 20-question company survey to determine employees' attitudes on "Career Opportunities, Communication, Compensation & Benefits, Employee Morale, Recognition & Feedback, Senior Leadership, Work/Life Balance, and Fairness & Respect" for over 65,000 firms.
Apple has been rapidly growing its workforce in order to keep up with its expanding business. As of September, the company had 60,400 full-time employees, up from 49,400 in fiscal 2010. Nearly 60 percent of Apple's workers are part of its thriving global retail business.
Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs said in June that the company has "grown like a weed" and has struggled to find space for its employees in Cupertino, Calif., and neighboring cities. The company is planning a massive circular spaceship-like office building in Cupertino that will house up to 13,000 of its employees.
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Apple Developing High Resolution MacBook Pro Display?
Apple has begun developing a MacBook Pro version of its high resolution retina display, though this one will bump resolutions to an impressive 2880x1800 pixels.
Currently the most common high resolution monitors available in laptops is 1920x1080 pixels, with Apple's top of the line options maxing out at 1680x1050. The new super high-res displays will be available some time in mid 2012 Digitimes reports.
It was initially claimed that Apple would also be upgrading the iPad 3's display to a higher resolution 2048x1536 panel, but rumours circulating now show that it seems likely the fruity firm won't meet this expectation. Now it's thought it'll end up with a middle of the road option, around 1600x1200.
Apple initially introduced the retina display for its iPhone 4 in 2010, upping the resolution from the previous generation's 480 x 360 pixels to a much more impressive 960 x 480. The idea behind this move - and the reason for naming it 'retina display' - was because Steve Jobs said a resolution that high on a screen that size, would be the point where the human eye no longer noticed an increase in pixel count.
It's nice to see some Apple news based around the company improving its products and not simply focusing on suing others for their developments.
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Currently the most common high resolution monitors available in laptops is 1920x1080 pixels, with Apple's top of the line options maxing out at 1680x1050. The new super high-res displays will be available some time in mid 2012 Digitimes reports.
It was initially claimed that Apple would also be upgrading the iPad 3's display to a higher resolution 2048x1536 panel, but rumours circulating now show that it seems likely the fruity firm won't meet this expectation. Now it's thought it'll end up with a middle of the road option, around 1600x1200.
Apple initially introduced the retina display for its iPhone 4 in 2010, upping the resolution from the previous generation's 480 x 360 pixels to a much more impressive 960 x 480. The idea behind this move - and the reason for naming it 'retina display' - was because Steve Jobs said a resolution that high on a screen that size, would be the point where the human eye no longer noticed an increase in pixel count.
It's nice to see some Apple news based around the company improving its products and not simply focusing on suing others for their developments.
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http://comunikas.org/pg/profile/vbgor
Has Samsung robbed Apple of its cool?
Late last month, Samsung released an ad for its new line of Galaxy S II phones that mocked iPhone fans who queue up for the latest model. The ad portrayed iPhone users waiting in an interminable line in New York as smug hipsters, and featured one of the best lines in a commercial in recent memory:
“I could never get a Samsung,” says a bearded young man sporting oversized headphones and a MacBook Pro perched on his lap. “I’m creative.”
“Dude, you’re a barista,” says his dismissive friend.
Here’s the ad, in case you’re one of the four people left in the U.S. who hasn’t seen it.
Of course, it would take a lot more than some Madison Avenue snark to knock the bloom off Apple’s rose, right? After all, Apple’s one of the country’s most-admired brands. Besides, no one lines up for Samsung’s phones . . .
Well, apparently the Samsung campaign is having an effect. Phillp Elmer-DeWitt reports Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog that Samsung’s “buzz” has passed that of Apple’s iPhone. The report is based on a study by YouGov, which tracks how the public perceives brands.
In other words, the ad may be influencing the wrong people. On the other hand, there’s also more room for sales growth in this older demographic – presuming you can convince them a smartphone would make their lives better.
I’m not sure folks who’d line up for an iPhone are not going to do so because Samsung’s made a clever ad mocking them. And I don’t think the ad is going to cause anyone to say, “I don’t want to be like those hipsters — I’m buying a Samsung smartphone!”
I’d be very curious to see how YouGov statistics for younger respondents.
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“I could never get a Samsung,” says a bearded young man sporting oversized headphones and a MacBook Pro perched on his lap. “I’m creative.”
“Dude, you’re a barista,” says his dismissive friend.
Here’s the ad, in case you’re one of the four people left in the U.S. who hasn’t seen it.
Of course, it would take a lot more than some Madison Avenue snark to knock the bloom off Apple’s rose, right? After all, Apple’s one of the country’s most-admired brands. Besides, no one lines up for Samsung’s phones . . .
Well, apparently the Samsung campaign is having an effect. Phillp Elmer-DeWitt reports Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog that Samsung’s “buzz” has passed that of Apple’s iPhone. The report is based on a study by YouGov, which tracks how the public perceives brands.
In other words, the ad may be influencing the wrong people. On the other hand, there’s also more room for sales growth in this older demographic – presuming you can convince them a smartphone would make their lives better.
I’m not sure folks who’d line up for an iPhone are not going to do so because Samsung’s made a clever ad mocking them. And I don’t think the ad is going to cause anyone to say, “I don’t want to be like those hipsters — I’m buying a Samsung smartphone!”
I’d be very curious to see how YouGov statistics for younger respondents.
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Opinion: Why Apps devs choose Apple's iPhone 5
Developers, developers, developers: you're going to make more money building apps for Apple [AAPL] and iOS than you'll gather building for Android, claims Flurry Analytics. It seems no amount of (could it be?) reality distortion on the part of Google chairman, Eric Schmidt, can transform this environment, at least, not yet.
[ABOVE: Samsung's latest Apple cult-bashing ad. I'm not convinced Android offers "tons of places" to buy movies."]
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MobiLens says that for the three months ending in October, Android devices represented 46.3 percent of US smartphone subscribers in contrast to 28.1 percent using iOS. Apple claims over 250 million iOS devices have been activated in contrast to Google's claimed 200 million Android devices.
Flurry's findings show that despite Android's larger marketshare -- NPD says the OS commands 53 percent of the US smartphone market -- when it comes down to apps users aren't especially interested. Granted, Google's achieving a claimed billion app downloads each month, but Apple sees 18 times that.
So, right now, we can see that apps use on the Android OS is dwarfed by that of iOS, despite which Schmidt told France's Le Web conference that within six months, Android would be the first platform developers will build apps for.
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[ABOVE: Samsung's latest Apple cult-bashing ad. I'm not convinced Android offers "tons of places" to buy movies."]
When users don't use
MobiLens says that for the three months ending in October, Android devices represented 46.3 percent of US smartphone subscribers in contrast to 28.1 percent using iOS. Apple claims over 250 million iOS devices have been activated in contrast to Google's claimed 200 million Android devices.
Flurry's findings show that despite Android's larger marketshare -- NPD says the OS commands 53 percent of the US smartphone market -- when it comes down to apps users aren't especially interested. Granted, Google's achieving a claimed billion app downloads each month, but Apple sees 18 times that.
So, right now, we can see that apps use on the Android OS is dwarfed by that of iOS, despite which Schmidt told France's Le Web conference that within six months, Android would be the first platform developers will build apps for.
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http://theapptimes.com/top-10-free-apps-for-your-android-tablet/
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