You mean tariffs on social media posts, and then keep deferring.
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Apple Reports 3Q 2025 Results: $23.4B Profit on $94B Revenue
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APPLE IS OUT OF IDEAS. Their phones have looked the same for more than 5 years! Only NERDS think better more energy efficient, and powerful chips are innovation. Apple should make a circular phone, THINK DIFFERENT. TIM APPLE should be FIRED for what he has done to Apple. SAD!
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Ummm guys….hate to burst your enthusiasm but there has been a demonstrable flattening of the curve since Q1 of 2021. Look at the spikes and even the valleys for iPhone, IPads and even Wearables. It’s not the incline up from Q1 2009 to Q1 2021. I mean this is consistent money to be sure. But the data behind the graph is clear….these numbers are not rocketing to the moon anymore. It shows a plateau for all except services.
How should ANY cellular phone look like now, regardless of Android or Apple, to satisfy your cravings for something new? Maybe a new shape….like a trapezoid or a rhomboid? And please don’t say, “Foldable”. That’s so 15 years ago and more if you include the “flip phones” predecessors of the late 90s. So go ahead, Jony Ive wannabe….give us YOUR vision is the smart phone design of the future.
They would most likely sell more cicurlar phones as people would be dropping and breaking them all the time.
People don't seem to get once a market matures there isn't much in terms of innovation or change.
Oh noooo. No getting on the not ready AI boat has sure hurt Apple. AI companies have never made money but Wall Street was righ! Not.
Apple is not truly behind on AI, Wall Street is just plain wrong about AI. When the AI bubble crashes Apple can buy all the AI it wants.
But hopefully not Perplexity.
Let's remember also that the copyright liabilities hanging around AI scrapping have not gone away. And with all the deep pockets involved, lawyers are going to stay doggedly interested.
Apple is not truly behind on AI, Wall Street is just plain wrong about AI. When the AI bubble crashes Apple can buy all the AI it wants.
But hopefully not Perplexity.
Let's remember also that the copyright liabilities hanging around AI scrapping have not gone away. And with all the deep pockets involved, lawyers are going to stay doggedly interested.
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That was all down to Steve setting the roadmap. Tim Apple would know innovation if it passed him in the street. He's nothing more than a beancounter.
Not a hater, but with all those BILLIONS in profit, why they need to raise prices because of tariffs? GREED and shareholders happiness paid for by their customers thinning wallets?
I know if I had $23B in profit in 3 months that I'd be damn sure I had the best of the best creative engineers with new visions. Apple has the profit but not the new visions. We, me and I suspect you, are mere peons just getting by saving up to by Apple's overpriced gadgets so I just don't have the motivation to come up with a vision. Nor should anyone like me.
Yah, this is true - it's not growing as fast as it was long ago.
But it is a very big company and still looking like middle to high single digits of growth with a few into the double digits right? This is good. Can you find another company with quarter revenues of $94 Billion, and that would be the companies lowest revenue number of their year? Just look. Remember it is BILLIONS not millions. It's nearly a Billion dollars of revenue per day - every day nearly. This is better than I can do running a business - so instead of doing that I just pile into AAPL stock and let them do all the work.
Services are all that matter longer term and they have the buyback.
