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NetjetRon
Jul 04, 2017Follower
Orbi problems? Look at Netgear's investor report!
There is some interesting information straight from Netgear's own first quarter 2017 report. http://investor.netgear.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1023072 The most telling thing is how much th...
dmakogon
Jul 04, 2017Guide
I honestly don't see any value in creating an account today and posting this rant here, on a technical support forum, drawing unsubstantiated conclusions, and throwing insults at people within the company.
- st_shawJul 04, 2017Master
The numbers do not support the OPs assertion. Netgear's R&D spending of $22.7M is 7% of revenue. This is not an unusually low number. Consider Apple, which normally spends about 3-4% of revenue on R&D, with a peak around 6%.
A chart of Apple's spending for several years is here: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-rd-spend-charts-2017-2