I hope Apple completely deteriorates their Mac line. It would be a great way to prove that Idiocracy exists in Apple.
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Apple Reports 1Q 2020 Results: $22.2B Profit on $91.8B Revenue, Best Quarter Ever
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I hope Apple completely deteriorates their Mac line. It would be a great way to prove that Idiocracy exists in Apple.
Not that I want to generally defend big pharma business practice because it is ugly at times but it is well recognised that a new drug cost about 10 billion USD to develop (including failures). The patient is paying for this developing costs before the company makes any profit. As opposed to IT tech, pharma tech often has less than 10 years to take home the developing costs and make a profit before patent runs out. Quite different business but it is easy to feel black mailed by big pharma in terms of health.
Note: I am not employed in a pharma company (quite the opposite) nor does I have any stock.
I think the Mac will still be around, if only to develop apps for the iOS platform. Users will have to be realistic about the amount of attention the Mac line receives relative to other products lines though.
Insane numbers. People keep doubting Tim Cook and Apple, but they just keep proving them wrong. A few key choices that have helped them through smartphone maturation, keeping iOS 12-14 on older devices, the XR/11/lower cost decision, expanding on iPadOS, and the push into wearables and services. Tim saw the writing on the wall and adjusted, with little to no downtime. This is exactly what you want from your CEO.
Not only that, but the ipad is generally more of a shared family device. It’s not uncommon for a family to have one ipad shared amongst everyone which they take turns gaming and consuming content on.
Contrast this with smartphones, where everyone in your family is going to have one. Take a family of 4. They can have 4 iphones, but one communal ipad. As such, lower ipad sales may not necessarily mean lower popularity. It just means that it may not make financial sense for get an ipad for everyone the same way you would a smartphone.
iPads probably also have a longer upgrade cycle compared to smartphones like you mentioned, so that’s another possible factor.
Obviously I was using hyperbole. Doesn’t change the fact most androids sold are cheap, disposable phones made by over a dozen different manufacturers. iPhone is still by far the best selling smartphone when compared to any single other phone out there.
And who died and made you the official Android spokesperson on this forum? Why do you take personal offense?
I'm sure you jest. But the Net Income is what the company reports on and pays taxes on. It won't exactly work out. And yes, this would be post tax strategies deployed in other countries.
I agree. I think the Mac will move more toward desktop heavy tasks, and the iPad will take over more of the routine everyday computing previously performed by laptops. There are still people that will need laptops, but it will shrink as the iPad’s capabilities continue to expand.
If you look at the innovation and improvement on the two platforms, the general direction of change is pretty clear. Compare the original iPad with iOS 3 to the current iPad Pro with iPadOS. They are worlds apart. Compare the 2010 MBA to the current MBA. There have been improvements, but not nearly as much as the iPad.
Idiocracy. OK...
$22 Billion profit on $92 Billion revenue, for the last quarter.
As the late Carl Sagan would say, Billions and Billions.
A billion dollars everyday, for the last 90 days.
Net income is profit.
Apple is the highest taxpayer and follows every tax law to the letter.
If you don’t like the rules, write your congressman.
Didn’t say they didn’t know what the were doing, just stated my opinion on how to increase profits on Mac sales.
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I read that, yes.
But at this point, they'd need to lift their whole product line, else there would be a lot of inconsistencies.
Their very long pipeline is becoming more and more of a problem IMO.
As soon as Apple releases XCode on iPadOS, that will be a sign of the end of the Mac. Just like the Macintosh replaced the Apple II and the iPhone replaced the iPod. I think that Apple is pushing the consumer Mac user towards the iPad and at some point, the Mac will be only for the professionals that can afford the price. I can see a future where Apple sells a portable pro device like the 16 inch MacBook Pro and a desktop like the new Mac Pro and that’s it. Effectively pricing out the consumer Mac users.
This is the path Apple should take. Just recently there was an interview with the original iPad software designer and program to commemorate the iPad's 10th anniversary. This is was the answer one of them game when asked about the future of the iPad
“We all know with 20/20 hindsight what the history of the iPad is 10 years later. But if you were to take a guess at 10 years in the future, do you see the iPad evolving to replace the Mac? Do you see it being a portal to cloud or streaming services? What do you think is the next big step for that platform?
Imran: I think it’ll be interesting for all of us to watch and see how Apple evolves the iPad. But, you know, I think one of the struggles that customers have with the iPad right now is really trying to figure out what role it plays in terms of a portable class computer. You have a traditional desktop computer or a traditional laptop computer — and where does the iPad fit in? You know, I would hope and I think they would continue to evolve it to a point where the iPad does end up doing a lot more that the Mac [currently] does and that the Mac redefines itself as more of a professional tool and the iPad defines itself as more of a mass consumer computing platform. I think that would be almost like a natural progression. But we’ll see where they go. I mean, there’s some great people there that are really passionate about refinement and, you know, I think they’re doing a decent job with that.”
The iPad's original software designer and program lead look back on the device's first 10 years
We chatted with Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno about the tiny tablet that could.
22B profits on 92B revenue is 23%, which is very reasonable. Why are people blaming Apple for high margins? Yes, I too do not like Apple prices, but if this is what it costs to build a quality product over a cheapo Acer or HTC smartphone I will be happy to pay it. I was just under the assumption they made it for much less.
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There is a misunderstanding. People who criticise Apple criticise it for the - quality- of the product, NOT the -profitability - of the product.
If you go back to the year 1998 when Apple was doomed to bankruptcy and Windows ate up the whole PC world and Bill Gates was the richest man in the world. No one on the Apple fans side was like:
"Where are the nay sayers who said that Windows is a bad product?"
"So Windows sucks huh? Guess who is about to go bankrupt, its Apple not Microsoft!"
Apple fans sticked with the quality product, not the profitable product, and bought the newer iMacs Jobs worked on. There is a video where where you can hear Apple fans whining when Jobs announced that Microsoft Explorer was going to be the default browser on OS8/9, although Explorer was like on 80% on computers back then.
The same could be said about criticisers of McDonalds, its a rich multi-billion dollar corporation, but people are not criticising the profits... they criticise the product.
True Apple aficionados are not happy with emojis announcements, USB-C ONLY macbooks, butterfly keyboards, Carpool Karaoke, and treating MacOS as a lower class citizen.
I am ok with that, so long as the Mac exists and its as good as it was on the Jobs days. I hope I will never have to use Horrordows ever in my life again.
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There is a misunderstanding. People who criticise Apple criticise it for the - quality- of the product, NOT the -profitability - of the product.
If you go back to the year 1998 when Apple was doomed to bankruptcy and Windows ate up the whole PC world and Bill Gates was the richest man in the world. No one on the Apple fans side was like:
"Where are the nay sayers who said that Windows is a bad product?"
"So Windows sucks huh? Guess who is about to go bankrupt, its Apple not Microsoft!"
Apple fans sticked with the quality product, not the profitable product, and bought the newer iMacs Jobs worked on. There is a video where where you can hear Apple fans whining when Jobs announced that Microsoft Explorer was going to be the default browser on OS8/9, although Explorer was like on 80% on computers back then.
The same could be said about criticisers of McDonalds, its a rich multi-billion dollar corporation, but people are not criticising the profits... they criticise the product.
True Apple aficionados are not happy with emojis announcements, USB-C ONLY macbooks, butterfly keyboards, Carpool Karaoke, and treating MacOS as a lower class citizen.
I am ok with that, so long as the Mac exists and its as good as it was on the Jobs days. I hope I will never have to use Horrordows ever in my life again.
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Why would you think you know how to increase profits on Mac better than the most profitable company in the world who just had the best quarter ever in corporate history?
Goal of doubling services from 2016 has been achieved with this Q1 2019 Lucca said! Awesome!
Maybe they should sell Mac's at a lower profit margin - they can easily be subsidized by things like the sales and profits made from AirPods!
You see, Apple loves the Mac, and so do we, but the economics of the business are such that they are making more revenue and profits selling headphones than the super sophisticated computers! Weird eh? But I guess it's the truth!
So Apple can afford to keep making great computers, but if they ONLY sold Macintosh computers, can you imagine how things would be for us? Be thankful for the good management at Apple is what I would say.
Maybe they should sell Mac's at a lower profit margin - they can easily be subsidized by things like the sales and profits made from AirPods!
You see, Apple loves the Mac, and so do we, but the economics of the business are such that they are making more revenue and profits selling headphones than the super sophisticated computers! Weird eh? But I guess it's the truth!
So Apple can afford to keep making great computers, but if they ONLY sold Macintosh computers, can you imagine how things would be for us? Be thankful for the good management at Apple is what I would say.
I don’t have to imagine a time when Apple only sold the Mac, I lived it and it was a damn good time. At least when Steve came back. I think Tim is doing a fine job and I still love Apple, I just wish they would give the Mac a little more love.
This is no Kool-Aid situation my guy. This is the real deal. No tips needed.