Motley Fool compares AAPL to MSFT
updated 02:30 pm EST, Fri March 18, 2005
AAPL vs. MSFT
As a part of its "Stock Madness 2005," The Motley Fool . The article offers both pro-Apple and pro-Microsoft perspectives. For Apple, Bill Mann writes: "Apple is the prospector, the trailblazer, and yes, perhaps even a Rule Breaker. Microsoft is the Borg. Apple's technology tends to work extremely well and is intuitive. Microsoft's works with everything, eventually. Microsoft will never, ever, ever come up with a piece of functional engineering as breathtakingly beautiful as the iMac." For Microsoft, Rich Smith writes: "Microsoft's the more profitable company. It's better run. And the only place where Apple scores higher: the price tag ... Of course, you know all that already. You've known it for 19 years. So here's something you may not know, and that's of crucial importance to you as an investor: Microsoft is the more shareholder-friendly company."
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Joined: Feb 2003
Better run?
"Microsoft's the more profitable company. It's better run."
Yeah? From whose perspective? Shareholders, maybe, but not the staffs. I've known people who have worked for Apple and people who have worked for Microsoft, and I can tell you that the comments I've heard from any of them contradict this statement outright.