Steve Jobs vs Jim Balsillie

CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), Jim Balsillie commented on Apple CEO Steve Jobs claims related to the amount of future sales of smartphones and a 7-inch tablet.

"We think many consumers are now tired with what is said and thought out by Apple," Balsillie said in response to Apple's statement.

"For anyone who is outside the influence of environmental and Apple must have realized if the tablet-sized seven-inch will actually dominate the market," said Balsillie is denied if the size of the tablet was considered too small.

As is known, the current manufacturer of the Blackberry is currently developing a tablet-sized screens 18 cm. This size is still very small when compared to tablets made by Apple, iPad, a screen size of 25 centimeters.

Previously, Jobs made the comments that mention tablet size 7 inches as the responsibility and did not enter into any category. "The device was too small to compete with smartphones and too big to compete with the iPad," he said.

Balsillie had 'slapped' by tilting back behind Apple's Apple's rejection of Adobe Flash videos on the iPad.

"We all know if the Adobe Flash support whatever is best for customers who want the Internet experience wonderful. We also tender when Apple wanted to try to control the ecosystem and set the platform is closed, it was all good for Apple itself. Developers even want more choice, and consumers want full access to the internet that the majority of his web use Flash, "said Balsillie.

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IPad Sales Forecast Still on Bottom

Apple's sales and net income that was announced on Monday (10/18/2010) when the U.S. managed to surpass analyst predictions. But, sales are still below projections iPad.

Apple posted a net profit of 4.31 billion U.S. dollars or 4.64 dollars per share at the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009/2010 which ended last September. This figure jumped from earnings in the same quarter last year which only 2.53 billion U.S. dollars. Achievements were also above analysts' consensus profit forecast of just 4.08 dollars per share.

In the same period, Apple posted sales of 20.3 billion U.S. dollars, surged 67 percent from a year earlier. This figure also exceeded analysts' predictions that only 18.9 billion U.S. dollars.

Although performance is generally good, analysts highlight more iPad sales, the new flagship Apple product. Until last September, Apple was only able to sell 4.19 million units iPad or below analyst projections that reach 5 million units.

One of the main problems faced by Apple is the bottleneck in the production process. Due to the rate of production can not catch up growth in demand, now, buyers have to wait for weeks to get their orders iPad.

Yes, most likely, iPad sales still jumped into the holiday period will end in 2010. However, sales figures iPad until the end of September it was already making investors disappointed. As a result, on Monday (18/10/2010), Apple shares slumped 6 percent to 299.02 U.S. dollars per share in additional trading session of the New York Stock Exchange. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq, Apple's stock price closed at a rate of 318 dollars per share.

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CEO Most Expensive and Cheapest

Results of a survey conducted Glass Lewis & Co. show, Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz Yahoo! Inc. ranks the top executives are paid too much in leading company performance is poor.

Bartz began his career at Yahoo! in early 2009. In the last year, he pocketed 39 million dollars which is the highest compensation among a number of executives in 25 companies that are too expensive to pay the leaders joined in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

In the calculation, Gass Lewis incorporate a number of indicators ranging from stock prices, cash operations, and growth in earnings per share. The majority of compensation received by Bartz, including options to purchase shares below market price. Yahoo! efforts to improve competitiveness against its rival, Facebook Inc. and Google Inc., it seems still difficult because under his leadership Yahoo! still running in place.

"Bartz is an example of the many problems we encounter in other companies where the companies were paying expensive leader. The policy is done so that the leader does not move to work elsewhere," according to a report written by Glass Lewis.

According to Spokesman Yahoo! Dana Lengkeek, Bartz received a majority of compensation is stock options that can not be taken home. Bartz will only be able to withdraw the stock options if they meet certain achievement targets. Stocks that will not be sold until 2013, except in certain circumstances.

Meanwhile, two executives who are paid positions are overpriced Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Michael Jeffries with a total of 38.5 million dollars compensation. Position three is CEO Eugene Isenberg Nabors Industries Ltd. with a total of 38.2 million dollars compensation.

While Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the CEO who paid the lowest paid CEO in the category of generosity. Jobs revenues per month last year only 1 U.S. dollar.

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