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Apple Reports Q2 2018 Results: $13.8B Profit on $61.1B Revenue, 52.2M iPhones
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Maybe some of those things just aren't as important as some people think they are.
This thread is filled with people who have absolutely no clue how to run a business or how to succeed in life. They're commenting on things they know nothing about and showing a complete lack of experience or knowledge in this area. It's pretty sad but it's MacRumors as usual.
Profits continue to rise?! That must mean the end of Apple for good!!!
Yet they sell most of the other pc manufactures
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So why you don't start to make money out of nothing? O I guess you have to sell a bunch of CPU, RAM, GPU, HDD first...
COOL ...I just had to look that up
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This Company always amazes me. They continue to excel in areas others were claiming they would fail, Tim Cook is doing great things with Apple internally and bring this company to record profits, and their product revenue and services are growing exponentially. Happy to be a supporter of this company and there is a reason they succeed, being the wealthiest company in the world.
That does not make sense. Apple is selling far more Macs per quarter now than they did at any time in the 1980s, 1990s or 2000s. They dropped "computer" from Apple Inc before Steve Jobs died.
There will be a lot of Apple haters sad to day. Or more likely, spin this into something negative. lol.
No clue who you imagine you're arguing with. I was talking about EPS. Maybe learn a thing about financials.
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CNN/fake news headliner.... "Apple announces slow iPhone sales, but $100 billion for investors"
God how I hate news today, can't tell whats **** from the truth.
Clickbait of course, but listing only for reference
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/01/technology/apple-earnings-iphone-sales/index.html
God how I hate news today, can't tell whats **** from the truth.
Clickbait of course, but listing only for reference
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/01/technology/apple-earnings-iphone-sales/index.html
You really think the same number of people are buying the latest iPhones as the older ones?
At which point do you all just eat humble pie and admit that you were wrong about Apple all along?
CNBC was the worst. If you didn’t know the numbers you’d think Apple had the most awful quarter ever. The hate for Apple is strong and even stronger when they perform better than then the lead-up rumors suggest.
I'm boiling EPS down to actual profit, so you wouldn't say it's just financial engineering. The ACTUAL profit is a record, ever in Q2. Buybacks have nothing to do with total profit. EPS rises when shares are reduced, but you can't raise the actual profit by reducing shares. What year did you graduate form Wharton, because I did in 2006.
From Apr 2, 2018 ...
From Apr 3, 2018 ...
definitely a happy investor and end user.
Dividends increased by 16%
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...re-buyback-plan-by-100-billion-lifts-dividend
From Apr 3, 2018 ...
definitely a happy investor and end user.
Dividends increased by 16%
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...re-buyback-plan-by-100-billion-lifts-dividend
lmfao 35+ years for Mac OS to hit double digits!!!! Fail. lol "Apple: We're still the iPhone & watchband company."
“Tim Cook on iPhone pricing strategy: We price for the value we're delivering. iPhone X is most innovative product on the market. Jam packed with technologies on the market. Really sets up the smartphone for the next decade. So that's how we priced it. We were surprised somewhat that through all of this period of time, that the iPhone X lines up at the most-popular for every week since the time of its launch, so I think that's a popular point. And it's #1 in China. Another powerful point. Obviously at some point if those technologies move to lower price points, there is probably more unit demand. But the way we think of it is trying to have a reasonable price for what we've delivering.”
As I said, don’t expect the iPhone 11 to be any cheaper, the plus model more expensive. You need to read between the lines.
And let’s remeber the X starts with 64GB storage too.
I think the 11 Plus will start at 1200 for 64GB.
As I said, don’t expect the iPhone 11 to be any cheaper, the plus model more expensive. You need to read between the lines.
And let’s remeber the X starts with 64GB storage too.
I think the 11 Plus will start at 1200 for 64GB.
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The.. the.. the.. then WHERE are the individual break downs????
Imagine if Samsung said the Galaxy 9 was the best selling phone since dinosaurs roamed the earth, then said all variants of Galaxy would be lumped together... but, trust us-- they're spectacular!
Im gonna play a little game where I pretend that all this money is mine and I take great satisfaction and credit for earning such large amounts.. so i can then sneer at all the naysayers....
Why are you wasting your life on this website then? Seems like a huge waste of your short time on this earth to spend it on a company who you don't see doing anything great ever again. If that's honestly how you feel, I'd move on and find somewhere better to invest your time.
Do you really want to look back on your life when asked and be like "I spent a lot of time on a website for a company I didn't think very highly of and didn't think would ever do anything great."
Even if half of iPhone X buyers have bought the larger storage model, it's hard to make the ASP number work with iPhone X only accounting for 20% of iPhone units. We'd have to, among other things, believe that Apple sells very few low price models (e.g. the iPhone SE) in emerging markets. And if it's true that Apple sells very few low price models, then the even distribution model (which trip1ex described) which gets us down to 14% for iPhone X share wouldn't work. (And, of course, 20% is more than 14%.)
When we refer to ASPs, we aren't talking about average retail price. We're referring to the average that Apple gets, with certain adjustments (e.g. deferrals for future software updates and from prior sales). Those numbers are also affected by, e.g., channel builds and draw downs. We saw the latter this past quarter, and most likely the iPhone X accounted for a disproportionate share of that.
So your saying the claims by Cook don’t add up? Please explain your conclusion further.
It's hilarious to see how many people have now turned to, "Despite the fact that it'd likely mean losing his job and time in jail, I don't believe the things Cook has said because they don't match with my poor opining of Apple and how they must be performing in my own mind. When the data doesn't agree with my viewpoints, I'll simply dismiss the numbers."