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Apple Reports 4Q 2025 Results: $27.5B Profit on $102.5B Revenue
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Why would they do that, when they make so much profit regardless.$27.5 billion profit in 90 days. When do we get the long promised improved Siri?
Of all the Magnificent 7, Appel is the only true all around tech company. The most magnificent of the seven. Firing on all cylinders delivering a host of new products with all the most advanced tech features like clockwork on yearly basis, encompassing services, advanced Apple designed computer and telecommunication chips, advanced operating systems, etc.
Meanwhile Meta is a glorified advertising company with their picture hosting site and their messaging apps who also dabble in hardware that fails year after year. Alphabet is the closest in achievement to Apple, but at heart they are just an advertising company that would not exist without their search monopoly ad revenue. Microsoft is also a true tech company, focusing on software and services with massive margins. All of them are great, but Apple is the MVP of the Magnificent 7.
There!, that's my pat on the back for Apple, I know they were feeling down in the dumps because of that AI thing...and having to add ads to the Maps app, and soon on the Home Screen to make ends meet.
Meanwhile Meta is a glorified advertising company with their picture hosting site and their messaging apps who also dabble in hardware that fails year after year. Alphabet is the closest in achievement to Apple, but at heart they are just an advertising company that would not exist without their search monopoly ad revenue. Microsoft is also a true tech company, focusing on software and services with massive margins. All of them are great, but Apple is the MVP of the Magnificent 7.
There!, that's my pat on the back for Apple, I know they were feeling down in the dumps because of that AI thing...and having to add ads to the Maps app, and soon on the Home Screen to make ends meet.
The old business maxim is applicable: You cannot save your way to profitability.
Not saying a 28.6% net margin is bad (it's solid). However with Apple's prices I'm surprised they only make 28.6c for every dollar of revenue.
I'm not blown out of the park seeing this.
I'm not blown out of the park seeing this.
Margins would be better if they stopped producing the Apple Vision Pro. It's an ROI loss leader!
Yeah Dell's quote is definitely one of the most stupid, arrogant comments in history. Like good on him for making $$$ putting PC parts together but he had zero vision / creativity. Surprised the brand still exists...
It continues to stun me how Apple keeps breaking records from quarter to quarter. Truly remarkable.
There's a long history of eating your own words in the tech space.
Anyone remember the iPhone funeral?
despite all of the gloom and doom we read here on MR, Apple is doing phantasmic and winning new customers, they must be doing something right
The doom and gloom isn't about Apple's financials. It's about Tim Cook lowering product quality in order to maximize profits.despite all of the gloom and doom we read here on MR, Apple is doing phantasmic and winning new customers, they must be doing something right
These results continue to show that Apple doesn't really need AI. If you can keep selling iPhones without x thing, do you really need x thing?
Tim Cook, as well as others at Apple, have clearly MORE than earned their executive pay and compensations. Here's to many more years at the Apple helm for Cook.
or, maybe the average iPhone user doesn't care as much about AI as it is hyped right now by Wall Street and (some of) the tech industry?
Or the average iPhone user is believing that Apple is on the right path re AI? No, that couldn't be, MR clearly states otherwise
"do you really need x thing?" - who is you in that question? you as in the user or you as in Apple the company? Can't be the latter cause if I recall they're spending $18B on private cloud which is the foundation for Apple's AI ... and if it is the user - great question.
Services revenues is greater than iPad, Mac and wearables combined. In case anyone is wondering why they’re getting notifications in settings about Apple Care..
Sad to me overall, but good for Apple shareholders I guess. 🫤
Or seemingly never ending mentions about Apple Card in the Wallet app, no matter how many times I dismiss it.
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You don’t run a successful business by giving customers everything they want (because much of it tends to boil down to more features for lower prices). Apple understood this a long time ago. Perhaps in time, the critics here will as well. 
