Yeah, there's very little chance that Mr. Cook is outright lying in conference calls. Some of the the things he's said are fairly vague and might be interpreted different ways. But some of the things he's said aren't. He's been clear that the iPhone X has been Apple's best selling model since it has been available.
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Apple Reports Q2 2018 Results: $13.8B Profit on $61.1B Revenue, 52.2M iPhones
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Yeah, there's very little chance that Mr. Cook is outright lying in conference calls. Some of the the things he's said are fairly vague and might be interpreted different ways. But some of the things he's said aren't. He's been clear that the iPhone X has been Apple's best selling model since it has been available.
THIS, is the correct answer. WEEKLY unit sales could tally as below and Tim Cook wouldn't be lying
X - 5
8+- 4
8 - 4
7+- 4
7 - 4
6s+ - 4
6 - 4
SE - 4
Ah I see, the usual I can’t provide any proof so I’ll attemot to twist the argument around to divert attention away from that fact, comment.
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That's theoretically possible. But, for a number of reasons (to include reported ASPs), it isn't plausible.
So again your saying Tim Cook is lying. On an earnings call with investors. It really bothers you that much that the X is successful?
Cook: Customers chose iPhone X more than any other iPhone each and every week in the March quarter, just as they did following its launch in the Dec quarter.
"Since we split the line with 6 and 6 Plus, this is the first time the "top of the line" iPhone model has also been the most popular." (talking about iPhone X)
"The iPhone X is a beloved product."
"I could not be prouder of the product." (iPhone X).
"Since we split the line with 6 and 6 Plus, this is the first time the "top of the line" iPhone model has also been the most popular." (talking about iPhone X)
"The iPhone X is a beloved product."
"I could not be prouder of the product." (iPhone X).
I sell these products and they sell quite well. More than good enough to keep me in business. I'd love even more. MBP is a great, sleek, powerful system that works with no fuss. Even the base models blow the doors off of systems from 2015.
And no one secretly did anything - Apple made a decision to trade some speed for some stability. I supported them on that, but it's nice they give morons the option to allow their phones to shut down randomly. Also it's nice they offer a big discount on batteries - I think way more generous then I would have liked. And if you can show me some place where Apple violated tax law, I'd appreciate it. I don't see it, personally, and if the governments of the EU, Ireland and the US are so upset, they could try writing their tax codes better (with the governments of those entities, good f'n luck.).
These boards are full of random anger. No need to feed the trolls or even acknowledge them.
No I don’t believe Tim Cook would lie on a quarterly earnings call. Sorry it bothers you so much that iPhone X isn’t a failure.
I do not like the slow growth of services. This is a very high margin business and Apple continues to make half steps and missteps into this area. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are eating Apple's lunch in this area. None of them have any dependency on hardware, and make huge revenues from corporate customers. They even give students access to their services for free, following the original Apple "get them using out stuff, and they are customers for life" strategy.
See above, you’ll think millions and millions of people rushing out to buy the iPhone X worldwide, when the fact is no, is a tiny percentage..
You can believe anything Apple tells you and see it as they want, and then ignore the alternative facts.
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Nobody but the over 4 million people that bought a Mac in the quarter.
Are you new here? Supplier doom and gloom is almost always wrong and if you actually look at the TSMC quarter, they actually did exactly what they said they would. Some stupid analyst spun their quarter into negativity for Apple, which was categorically wrong with the numbers reported today.
Cook and Apple can't lie on these calls. Apple is killing it and has silenced naysayers, as usual.
iPhone X was AGAIN the best selling iPhone, btw.
It's all a shell game they playing. Eventually this bubble is going to pop, you can only kick the can down the road so long before it catches up to you.
Over $1B/week profit on nearly $5B/week revenue, and people were predicting demise. Strange world.
$729. Up from around $650 y/y. Don't listen to people saying they "missed" it because it's a guess what they would do. The Y/Y is the key.
And? It wouldn’t be surprising that Apple sold fewer X in a non-holiday quarter than the holiday quarter (the first quarter the new model was available for sale). The holiday quarter is always going to be Apple’s best quarter.
Don't spread this nonsense. You have nothing to back up that this is a "Shell game." The profit is REAL and they just made $13.8B in 90 days after making $20.1B in the previous 90 days.
You CANNOT make these numbers up or do a "shell game" to produce them. If you could create profit out of thin air, other companies would be doing it.
Yeap, Apple Music was hailed as smashing Spotify to bits, yet when Spotify floated and released its number of users it dwarfed Apple Music.. despite Apples attempts to pursued people otherwise..
It’s the same with original programming, they claim they are serious about it yet only give a billion dollars for at least a year for all content, Amazon are considering that amount for ONE show based on The Lord Of The Rings Plus all the other content, I think Netflix are around 8 billion. How can they be a serious ‘services company’ like that despite Apples billions and billions and billions sat there doing nothing?
4 million new Macs puts them in the higher-end of PC makers despite not using Windows, and having a fairly aged lineup. And that doesn't even account for how many macs are being used.
No reason for most Samsung users to upgrade from the S8 to the S9.
Still both are waterproof and have a headphone jack. Have face, fingerprint, and iris unlock. Wireless charging, and have a standard USB-C port for connectivity.
iPhone ASP was $728. I think I read half the iPhone X buyers pony up the additional $150 to go from 64GB to 256GB storage so it is extremely likely that the iPhone X accounted for less than 20% of the mix for the quarter. It doesn't take a whole lot of $999 or $1,149 phones to drive ASP up.