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No one is rioting in the street while Elon is stealing everyone's private information from government databases.
If the government has your data, it’s not private. And Elon hasn’t “stolen” any of your data and has done nothing nefarious with it for which he lawfully accessed.

Rest assured, if any federal judge or democrat could have stopped him on legal grounds, they would have. There is no shortage of that.
 
If Apple kept Steve Jobs vision in aggressively investing in the AI, its quarterly profit would easily be double its current or more.
“AI” itself isn’t precisely a very profitable business so far. How can you think Apple could DOUBLE their profits by investing in it?
 


Apple today announced financial results for the second fiscal quarter of 2025, which corresponds to the first calendar quarter of the year.

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For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $95.4 billion and net quarterly profit of $24.8 billion, or $1.65 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $90.8 billion and net quarterly profit of $23.6 billion, or $1.53 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Services revenue reached an all-time high during the quarter, while earnings per share set a March quarter record.

Gross margin for the quarter was 47.1 percent, compared to 46.6 percent in the year-ago quarter. Apple's board of directors also authorized an additional $100 billion for share repurchases and declared an increased dividend payment of $0.26 per share, up from $0.25 per share. The dividend is payable May 15 to shareholders of record as of May 12.As has been the case for over five years now, Apple is once again not issuing guidance for the current quarter ending in June.

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Apple will provide live streaming of its fiscal Q2 2025 financial results conference call at 2:00 pm Pacific, and MacRumors will update this story with coverage of the conference call highlights.

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Article Link: Apple Reports 2Q 2025 Results: $24.8B Profit on $95.4B Revenue
MacBook net sales are almost the same for 15 years !
 
iPhone still represents almost 50% of Apple's revenue. A couple of years ago the iPhone represented 55% of the revenue.
 
I wonder what they are actually measuring there. “Product not returned within the 14-day return window”?
Have you never received an apple satisfaction survey by email? Multiple questions on products, how you use them, what you like and don’t like etc
 
Depends on what growth you're talking about. Market Capitalization end of 2021: $2.901 Trillion. Market Capitalization end of 2024: $3.863 Trillion.
That's the growth that the Board of Directors, Tim Cook and stockholders care about the most.
I'm talking about revenue growth. Which, in the end, is what the Board will care about since it will translate into market cap growth.

You support that point. Apple stock is essentially flat since mid-2023. As is their revenue.

And Apple stock is up 52% since 2021. Which is way under other tech cos...
 
“AI” itself isn’t precisely a very profitable business so far. How can you think Apple could DOUBLE their profits by investing in it?
1. If Apple didn’t stagger its AI development, the leader of the AI at the time of Apple acquirement, Siri, would have much better public image in the public, largely preventing low end Android phones from grabbing market share at will.
2. Given Apple’s leading edge in chip design during those years, its AI research outcomes would sure integrate into its chips, making it less likely for a big chunk of main chip design engineers to leave Apple, thus there would be no Nuvia, then Qualcomm would not have the chance to surpass Apple’s chip performance as it did recently.
 
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