To a certain extent that's true in that people can do much (not 100%) of what they might want to do with AI on an iPhone using third party apps. But clearly as well as they are doing now they can do yet better if they improve their products in various way including with AI.
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Apple Reports 4Q 2025 Results: $27.5B Profit on $102.5B Revenue
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And of course it's generally near impossible to give them everything they want when you consider that many are begging for the exact opposite things. Sure adding option settings let's you come close but those can't allow all such contradictory customer requests.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.
And yet about 2 weeks after earnings we’ll get people here blathering about how apple is lost as a company, about how tim cook will doom the whole thing, yadda yadda yadda
Not the best day to pound that story 😂
It's a forum tradition going back many years. Yet under Cook's leadership Apple is now one of the most successful consumer tech companies in the world, with 1 Billion+ active/repeat happy Apple customers who love purchasing Apple products. Year after year after year.
They still sell iPods? Lol
Apple today announced financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2025, which corresponds to the third calendar quarter of the year.
For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $102.5 billion and net quarterly profit of $27.5 billion, or $1.85 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $94.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $14.7 billion, or $0.97 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
Apple's profits in the year-ago quarter were hit hard by a one-time charge of $10.2 billion over tax issues in the European Union. Without that one-time charge, Apple's profits in the year-ago quarter would have been $1.64 per share.
Gross margin for the most recent quarter was 47.2 percent, compared to 46.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. Apple also declared a quarterly dividend payment of $0.26 per share, payable on November 13 to shareholders of record as of November 10.
Apple set September quarter records for total revenue, iPhone revenue, and earnings per share, and an all-time record for Services revenue.
For the full fiscal year, Apple recorded $416.2 billion in sales and $112.0 billion in net income, compared to $391.0 billion in sales and $93.7 billion in net income for fiscal 2024. Both numbers set all-time fiscal year records for Apple, topping previous highs set in fiscal 2022.As has been the case for over five years now, Apple is once again not issuing detailed guidance for the current quarter ending in December, though it should provide some color on things in its conference call.
Apple will provide live streaming of its fiscal Q4 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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And would have been true if not for Steve Jobs.
Steve was obviously irreplaceable. Tim was probably the best person on the planet to milk Steve's inventions for all they were worth, but the lack of a visionary CEO has been exposed in the AI era.
If Tim Cook was Apple CEO before Steve Jobs was ever Apple CEO, Cook would’ve fired Jobs for not fitting in with Cook’s MBA-degree world view. Cook would’ve never been able to appreciate Jobs’s visionary approach. And that’s precisely why Cook fired Apple’s most Jobs-like employee, Scott Forstall.
Wow while I love my iPhone, most of my work gets done on a iMac or iPad Pro. Surprised to see iPhone composing nearly 50% of Apple’s profits.
Apple today announced financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2025, which corresponds to the third calendar quarter of the year.
For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $102.5 billion and net quarterly profit of $27.5 billion, or $1.85 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $94.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $14.7 billion, or $0.97 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
Apple's profits in the year-ago quarter were hit hard by a one-time charge of $10.2 billion over tax issues in the European Union. Without that one-time charge, Apple's profits in the year-ago quarter would have been $1.64 per share.
Gross margin for the most recent quarter was 47.2 percent, compared to 46.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. Apple also declared a quarterly dividend payment of $0.26 per share, payable on November 13 to shareholders of record as of November 10.
Apple set September quarter records for total revenue, iPhone revenue, and earnings per share, and an all-time record for Services revenue.
For the full fiscal year, Apple recorded $416.2 billion in sales and $112.0 billion in net income, compared to $391.0 billion in sales and $93.7 billion in net income for fiscal 2024. Both numbers set all-time fiscal year records for Apple, topping previous highs set in fiscal 2022.As has been the case for over five years now, Apple is once again not issuing detailed guidance for the current quarter ending in December, though it should provide some color on things in its conference call.
Apple will provide live streaming of its fiscal Q4 2025 financial results conference call at 2:00 pm Pacific, and MacRumors will update this story with coverage of the conference call highlights.
Conference call recap ahead...
Click here to read rest of article...
Article Link: Apple Reports 4Q 2025 Results: $27.5B Profit on $102.5B Revenue