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Apple Expected to Report Best Financial Results Ever Today Amid Return to Growth
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And you determine and predict what is "cool" and have a track record at doing so? Sony when seen as cool had a horribly watered down product line and never had the ease of use factor that a mac does, which is why it largely attracts new users. The problem with "those of you that understand their products" is you still focus on what YOU want. Realize the electronics world is changing. Look back to before the iPhone. People knew what they wanted the next iPods to have and where it should go next. If Steve and Apple focused on that back then, they would have been eventually left in the dust. Instead they shifted focus to iPhone and it changed the cell phone and portable music player world for good. Consumer computers simply do not drive sales anymore as more and more people are going away from owning them or at least purchasing new ones. 10 years ago nobody would have seen a reason for that. Today, many of you still can't grasp it. That doesn't mean it isn't reality.
Apple is a fashion design company. the real nerds have moved on to tesla, Amazon and the little guys.
Tim Cook is leading apple to a sad cosy comfortable death. the pretty watch straps and smooth tablets designed to look good in vegan cafes don't cut it with real people.
Tim Cook is leading apple to a sad cosy comfortable death. the pretty watch straps and smooth tablets designed to look good in vegan cafes don't cut it with real people.
Ha ha. Good one. Wait. You mean that wasn't meant to be ironic?
I wouldn't be surprised if AirPods and Beats by themselves will have sales very soon to be a Fortune 500 company by themselves. Apple Watch will also be there. You need about $6 billion of yearly revenue to be a Fortune 500 company. And I suspect that both lines will meet that in 2017 and if they don't, then by 2018 they will.
Yup. This article totally omits a mention of earnings and EPS, which are the numbers investors actually care about, in favor of the flashier revenue numbers that matter very little. Thanks for adding to the general confusion, MR.
This is the ONLY reason Tim Cook still has a job. He is no Steve Jobs. Tim Cook plus Johnny Ive is still no Steve Jobs. Apple's slipping back into the Sculley era with products designed by committee with inflated prices to maximize earnings that are not what customers really want anymore.
Meanwhile 2017 could be a record breaking year if the iPhone 8 is as successful as hoped. Excited by the Bizel free 10.5 iPad too
I'm one of those IT professionals and virtualization is great. Few of our machines have more than 16GB and even those are few and far between. You can virtualize in 16GB (heck I was doing it in 8 just fine) as a playground doesn't need more RAM for learning. Things are moving to Docker and while that runs on virtualization the memory requirements for each instance are quite low. Not to mention I'd not want to kill battery life running virtualization software.
For needs of playgrounds or development, the iMacs get to 32GB and are a fine option and with a few clicks can also be available anywhere (via VPN). Or spin up something in AWS. Or, depending on your development, pick up a $39 Raspberry Pi.
The need for huge RAM is a small segment of the population, Windows or Mac. Few Windows laptops support 32 or 64GB of RAM.
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This. Been a Mac guy since 02 and am dipping my toes in the Windows camp as these new MBPs are way too expensive and not that good (battery life, no innovative features, etc). So far I'm impressed with the machine I chose and even Windows 10 is quite good. Despite Apple's BS, the touchscreen and convertible features are awesome. We'll see how it ages though.
Profits aren't everything but neither is anecdotal or Internet fueled rage over Apple products. They obviously have more customers than ever and presumably these are happy customers. Just because you (I'm referring to YOU specifically) and everyone you know does not like what Apple has become does not mean Apple has any responsibility to revert back to the way they used to be. If you have 99 new customers all throwing money at you, it's extremely disruptive and inefficient to instead do what the 1 complaining customer says to do. Apple has never listened to their customers directly which is what makes them great. They don't design by committee and do not need our approval. Like real designers, they make something that their gut tells them needs to be made and how to do it. This does not always lead to success but that's not really their problem unless it runs them out of business entirely.
There we have it. The smug dismissal of any criticism because they're super profitable milking Steve Job's legacy for all it's worth prioritizing short-term gain over long-term innovation.
If Apple covered the courtyard of their new campus building, they will be domed.
Ha, I was going to buy a Mini years ago but instead of upgrading it they gimped it. So I'm still on my Hexacore 2009 5,1 Mac Pro, and I expect to use it until the end of the Trump presidency.
Well that at least is one thing you got right. The worst MBP I can remember - high price poor machine.
Good lord, this old argument again. zOMG! Apple stock predicted to drop to almost zero by fearmongers! Man, if anyone listened to this argument to sell Apple stock they would lose out big.
Apple makes premium products that most folks are unwilling to buy! Oh, they're the Mercedes-Benz of tech and that's why they're going to fail! Sell your stock now! Ha ha! The jokes always on the fearmongers ... every time.
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Record revenue does not necessarily equate to quality.
Not trying to stir things up, but let's be real...if you need to run MacOS, there's only one choice...Apple.
You buy what Apple is selling at that given time.
Many have a library of software that prevents them from moving to Windows.
Still, it's not an insignificant accomplishment to have 70+ billion in revenues, but I suspect most of that will still be iPhones.
Not trying to stir things up, but let's be real...if you need to run MacOS, there's only one choice...Apple.
You buy what Apple is selling at that given time.
Many have a library of software that prevents them from moving to Windows.
Still, it's not an insignificant accomplishment to have 70+ billion in revenues, but I suspect most of that will still be iPhones.
Perhaps you could look at Steve Balmer's tenure as CEO of MS as a guide to why there is so much concern about Cook as the CEO of Apple. How has MS stock performed after Ballmer disappeared?
in before...what, 100 comments already? Probably all the usual stuff has already been covered.
I sold some AAPL a few days ago, but not all I have. If it plummets tomorrow, I could buy it back for less. If it skyrockets tomorrow I might sell some more.
I sold some AAPL a few days ago, but not all I have. If it plummets tomorrow, I could buy it back for less. If it skyrockets tomorrow I might sell some more.
Good lord, now Tim Cook is being compared to a complete nincompoop of a CEO who ridiculed the original iPhone, then spent billions trying to create a Microsoft phone using Nokia's dying corpse of a mobile division after iPhone took off -- only to bankrupt Nokia and eventually watch from the sidelines as the Windows Phone writhes in death throes.
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Scratching the bottom of the barrel? That is absolutely a misunderstanding of the facts. Apple is expected to generate record revenue because it is riding a huge wave of demand for its premium products. Riding a huge wave of demand for its premium products is not scraping the proverbial barrel bottom; it is collecting all the bets at the craps table and leaving everyone else with just a couple of chips. This is winner take-all and Apple is taking all.
Wait, so Apple is NOT doomed? Everything is so confusing here on MacRumors.
I want Apple to bleed money while they double down on solidifying their customer base. In other words: New Mac Pro.