[Swordmaker]

THE LIST OF JOBS APPLE HAS DESTROYED:

Circuit City layoffs: 42,974
Federal Government layoffs: 42,105
Kodak layoffs: 28,000
Hewlett Packard layoffs
Motorola layoffs: 16,474
Borders layoffs: 16,600
Sprint layoffs: 14,600
IBM layoffs: 12,500
Musical group layoffs: 12,500
Ericsson layoffs: 10,690
US Postal Service layoffs: 10,615
Barnes & Noble layoffs: 9,000
Blockbuster layoffs: 7,200
CompUSA layoffs: 6,300
Sony layoffs: 6,000
RadioShack layoffs: 6,000
Microsoft layoffs: 5,727
Yahoo! layoffs: 5,780
Xerox layoffs: 5,400
AMD layoffs: 4,460
BestBuy layoffs: 3,400
Tower Records layoffs: 3,000
Trans World Entertainment (Sam Goody, FYE) layoffs: 2,900
Gateway (Acer) layoffs: 2,500
EMI layoffs: 2,000
Lenovo layoffs: 2,000
Adobe layoffs: 1,950
T-Mobile layoffs: 1,900
EMC layoffs: 1,476
Palm layoffs: 1,247
Virgin Megastores layoffs: 1,060
Dell layoffs: 905
AOL layoffs: 800
Cisco layoffs: 500
Warner Music Group layoffs: 300
Hasbro layoffs:  200
IAC (Ask.com) layoffs: 170
Universal Music Group layoffs: 110

[antiRepublicrat]

Circuit City: What killed CC was getting rid of anyone helpful and replacing them with know-nothing minimum wage people. Then, might as well go to Wal-Mart. It is the high level of customer support that helps Apple stores thrive.

Federal Government: ???

Kodak: Digital camera killed Kodak before the iPhone

Hewlett Packard: I’m sure they were hurt by their drive for marketshare by selling mainly in the low-end where there is little profit. And IIRC they’re still number one in volume.

Motorola: Too bad, so sad, Moto couldn’t deliver on providing Apple fast chips for their computers, or compete on the phone front.

Borders: Apple just got into the book selling business, so no way (or we could count all those Apple-oriented books sold)

Sprint: Sprint passed on the iPhone, their fault.

IBM layoffs: IBM also couldn’t provide fast enough chips for Apple.

Musical group layoffs: iTunes still funnels lots of money back through to the labels. Without iTunes, they’d probably be leaking money even more. However, by making wide distribution available to anyone, Apple is helping to undermine the cartel the labels have had running for the last several decades. This is a good thing.

Ericsson layoffs: Too bad, inferior products.

US Postal Service layoffs: That’s email, not Apple’s fault. And don’t forget all those Apple products bought over the mail.

Barnes & Noble layoffs: Same as Borders, although BN got the right idea later and has started competing in this century.

Blockbuster layoffs: Netflix started this, and then there was Red Box. Apple’s digital video sales and rentals have been nowhere near enough to have caused this.

CompUSA layoffs: See Circuit City.

Sony layoffs: Which department?

RadioShack layoffs: Radio Shack killed itself by becoming just another electronics store.

Microsoft layoffs: Their own fault, definitely. Lack of vision (Zune) and lack of ability (Vista) have given Microsoft a serious hit. On the plus side, the 360 is doing very well despite the billion dollar charge-off to be first with that generation of game system.

Yahoo! layoffs: No relation to Apple

Xerox layoffs: No relation in recent times, only back when Apple was an underdog. Xerox did try to sell their own tech, but priced it too high and failed.

AMD layoffs: AMD could have landed Apple’s switch to Intel, but they couldn’t produce. Apple actually had test Macs running AMD in case they went that way.

BestBuy layoffs: Uh, Best Buy is selling Apple products.

Tower Records layoffs: Okay, Apple did do that.

Trans World Entertainment (Sam Goody, FYE) layoffs: Same as CC

Gateway (Acer) layoffs: Same as HP

EMI layoffs: Same as other labels

Lenovo layoffs: Same as HP

Adobe layoffs: It’s their own fault their products have been sucking lately, and that they bought the toxic Macromedia to get an outdated 90s technology in Flash, another outdated technology in Cold Fusion, and a duplicate product in Freehand. And, don’t forget, Adobe practically owes its existence to a tight relationship with Apple.

T-Mobile layoffs: See Sprint

EMC layoffs: Same as other labels

Palm layoffs: Guilty

Virgin Megastores layoffs: Guilty

Dell layoffs: Same as other OEMs, although Dell didn’t help themselves by fudging profit numbers

AOL layoffs: No relation to Apple, another 90s business model overtaken by events, the company incapable of keeping up

Cisco layoffs: ??? More computers and networked handhelds, more demand for networking products.

Warner Music Group layoffs: Same as the other labels

Hasbro layoffs: ???

IAC (Ask.com) layoffs: No relation

Universal Music Group layoffs: Same as the other labels

However, I am sure Apple has killed quite a few jobs centered around fixing the problems in Windows.

[Jeff Gordon]

Total Bullshit!

Apple is responsible to its shareholders and did a damned fine job for them. It is not Apple’s fault that these companies could not compete.

[af_vet_rr]

But what about the competitors Apple has bumped off in its relentless move to the top?

What about the once-profitable markets, products, and companies it has destroyed? What happened to those jobs?

This is just shoddy sensationalism on the part of Business Insider. It's not like Apple dominated the cell phone or PC or tablet market for the past 15 years. A lot of these companies had a decade's head start on Apple, had huge customer bases, and they grew comfortable with their place in the world and took their customers for granted, and in the business world, when you grow too comfortable and take your customers for granted, you lose.

I still don't understand why some of the people at the tops of these companies still have their jobs. How does Steve Ballmer keep his job in the face of how much Microsoft has lost in the mobile and phone markets, not to mention Microsoft's stock price?

BI would have had a better article if they talked about how the stockholders failed to hold a lot more people accountable than they should have.

[FreedomPoster]

Did anyone offset with all the people who have jobs writing and supporting iPhone apps, and making their businesses better using them? Just curious.

I know a number of people in the above categories.

[Ramius]

What a bunch of nonsense. There’s no such thing as “shipping jobs overseas”. First of all... Manufacturing automation is responsible for more job displacement than has been cheap overseas labor. By a long shot. And then too... Anybody that can be replaced by cheap overseas labor should’ve been looking for a new job long ago. Most of those jobs are low-wage, low-skill jobs... If anything gets moved offshore, why not those?

Anybody that can’t compete on either price or quality with people on the other side of the world needs to find something else to do where they -can- compete. It’s there. Just keep looking.

[Vinnie]

I had to do a double take, thought this was Humor.

[billva]

Good grief, new and better products have always shifted the market. This is a lame argument.

[big'ol_freeper]

Oh boo hoo.

This idiotic mindset is right out of Atlas Shrugged.

Compete or get out.

Socialist idiots.

[Gator113]

This is only a test post for the dictation option on my new iPhone for 4s.

Cool.... only one small error, this seems to be working rather well.

[Crawdad]

The low intellect of the average American worker is what is causing so many layoffs and so many jobs to be moved out of the country. American companies with stupid employees can't remain profitable.

This trend will increase as technology becomes more of our everyday lives.

Contrary to popular belief, fish rot from the guts outward, not from the head down. American companies are rotting from the inside out.

[discostu]

OK I don’t even like Apple but that list is retarded. Half those companies screwed themselves up, and even if Apple did beat them at something that’s the goal of business. Capitalism ain’t pretty, but it is fun when you’re winning.

[GSWarrior]

Seems like I remember reading not too long ago that George Soros sold off all of his Apple stock.

[redgolum]

Bit hard to make that claim. For instance, it can be argued that Amazon killed Circuit City.

[B Knotts]

The whole article is goofy, but how do they blame BestBuy layoffs on Apple, when Macs, iPhones and iPads are sold at BestBuy?