On Tuesday, Apple had their quarterly conference call with investors. Today, Microsoft announced some financial news of their own. Let's compare and contrast.
Apple has a record breaking quarter. Profits rose 15%, gross margin increased from 34.8% to 36.3%, and had its best ever June quarter. And 1.5 Billion (with a B) apps were downloaded from the App store in its 1st year. While not all the news was that good – iPod sales declined, but this was expected because iPhones are also iPods.
Microsoft on the other hand told investors that its spring quarter sales shrank 17%. Revenue for its Client devision (which produces Windows) fell 28.7% and the Entertainment group (Xbox and Zune) fell 25%.
Microsoft Windows runs on virtually all cheap computers, but on very few high end machines.
Microsoft, a once great company with great products, has lost its way. Balmer must go.
