iPad sales are wretched. iPhone sales are new release bump. iWatch not generating much interest and will likely be niche.
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Apple Reports Q4 2014 Year-End Results: $8.5 Billion Profit on $42.1 Billion in Revenue [Call Concluded]
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iPad sales are wretched. iPhone sales are new release bump. iWatch not generating much interest and will likely be niche.
Expected outcome.
I actually think the criticism fired at Apple over poor QC lately is deserved. We're not talking about some middle-weight company, this is Apple, they do things right, it's why I spend most of my IT budget on their products.
Sure, the issues were relatively minor and were fixed extremely quickly, but still, this is Apple, they're the guys who do it right first time (usually)
Sure, the issues were relatively minor and were fixed extremely quickly, but still, this is Apple, they're the guys who do it right first time (usually)
I mean...goodness!
Isn't Apple selling more Macs now year-to-year than they ever have?
You talk as if Samsung phones are cheap. Have you seen the full retail prices of S5 and Note 4? They aren't cheap either. Yes, sure, Apple is gouging us but who else is going to make a cheaper iPhone that I want and love? Plus, this has nothing to do with owning stocks. I am simply comparing Apple and Samsung.
Do better? They just pushed out a 5K display iMac at a very attractive price point, something "unpossible," even a year ago. I think you are mistaking Apple doing better with pleasing you personally. The Mac line up is mostly hobbled now because of Intel. The "hobbyist" upgrade market is DOA.
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Now we know why Steve Ballmer resigned from the MS BOD and bought the Clippers. That # has to make MS very nervous about its mobile OS future. The 25% not buying iPhones are split between BB, Android, and MS.
This year's releases:
Yep, a truly exciting year!
But hey, Apple has bought Beats! Now they have a woman beater on the staff! Surely that's a recipe for success!
- A new Mac Mini that's actually worse than the older one.
- A "new" iPad Mini that is basically last year's model with a half-assed gold paintjob.
- A new iPad Noob (where is the iPad Pro, Apple?).
- A phablet.
- The iPhone 6, which is actually nice, but marred by tons of quality control issues (call gate, bend gate, and so on).
Yep, a truly exciting year!
But hey, Apple has bought Beats! Now they have a woman beater on the staff! Surely that's a recipe for success!
Except each new iPhone sales bump is bigger. That's fairly notable.
A quality niche product with high margins is still very profitable, hell it's the whole principle behind Apple's rebirth to begin with.
Yeah, giving Mac users a great free OS update, Retina iMacs, and cutting the prices on most Macs is awful. How could they?
They should magically wish Intel to make processors that are a meaningful upgrade over last year's CPU.
Yup.
Long long time ago, my sister convinced my mom to buy a bunch of shares....I thought it was a really stupid thing to do, but my sister loved the company. I was saying t-bills, she insisted on a part of the portfolio in this stock. I was a PC/enterprise guy and saw it is a toy. We argued, I lost.
Many years later, I shared an inheritance with her and I enjoy her needling me about it...she earned it.
80%? Probably more like 98%. Nearly everything Apple sells to day is a legacy Jobs product. Cook hasn't been around long enough to make much impact on new product. His test comes next year w/ the Apple Watch roll out.
"Best product pipeline in 25 years" my ass! iPhone 6, 6+, iPad Air 2, iMac with Retina Display, and OS X Yosemite were great updates. With that said, it is a shame though that the iPhone 6 and 6+ bend easily. Both models at the local stores are slightly bent by the volume buttons. Mac Mini update was meh but better than continuing to ignore it. No updates to their external monitors or regular iMacs. Nothing really going on with the MacBooks. iPod updates are nonexistent and not looking likely to happen in the foreseeable future. iPad mini 3 is literally just a iPad mini 2 with Touch ID and colored gold for an extra $100. Phil even looked uncomfortable mentioning it for 30ish seconds in the keynote. Watch doesn't count yet since it was only an announcement but even then the battery life and reliance on an iPhone are disappointing. On the software front, iOS 8 Health and iOS 8.0.1. They could repeat that same line and technically it would be true even though all know it's just misleading.
This wasn't intended as a rant or whining, but just a counterargument to Eddy's claim
Watch doesn't count yet since it was only an announcement but even then the battery life and reliance on an iPhone are disappointing. On the software front, iOS 8 Health and iOS 8.0.1. They could repeat that same line and technically it would be true even though all know it's just misleading.This wasn't intended as a rant or whining, but just a counterargument to Eddy's claim
Really pleased to see both categories doing so well. Bought a Retina Mabook Pro earlier this year. We'll see about finally snatching up an iPad next year.
And the iMac 2009 and really every iMac ever since. Can't buy them without Apple Care.
I actually think the criticism fired at Apple over poor QC lately is deserved. We're not talking about some middle-weight company, this is Apple, they do things right, it's why I spend most of my IT budget on their products.
Sure, the issues were relatively minor and were fixed extremely quickly, but still, this is Apple, they're the guys who do it right first time (usually)
Could you name a specific period when Apple usually did things right the first time?
I think Apple's reputation for quality is well-deserved, but I also remember that nearly every new product or update has had its naysayers, who complained that Apple just isn't as good as it once was. I predict that in a few years, this year will have slipped into that hazy period when Apple still made quality products.
There is probably a way to objectively compare different years for quality, but comparing NOW (when the current problems remain problems) with THEN (when the problems of the day were eventually solved and we mostly remember the end result) is not likely to objective.
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It's breathtaking percent profit for a mainly consumer firm. Think of all those billions stashed offshore. Someone should have told Steve that he couldn't take it with him when he died.
No, it is not because of that. Your statement doesn't follow the numbers:
"It sold 68 million iPads in 2014 and the company has now sold 237.2 million tablets."
"In 2014, Apple sold 18.9 million Macs".
It's simply because Macs are sold at a much higher price, thus more revenue for the company.
Yes, the iPads revenue has declined for the past 2-3 quarters. That's mainly because a lot of people have no reason to replace their iPads every year.
No, they can't. Macs or more generally, the computers market has peaked a while ago where it is now shrinking slowly as people switch to mobile devices.
The smartphone market still have a lot of room to grow, especially overseas, which is why over 60% of Apple's profits are from the overseas.
Eventually, the smartphone market will peak and Apple's growth will stall and starts to stabilize just like the Macs.
This year's releases:
- A new Mac Mini that's actually worse than the older one.
- A "new" iPad Mini that is basically last year's model with a half-assed gold paintjob.
- A new iPad Noob (where is the iPad Pro, Apple?).
- A phablet.
- The iPhone 6, which is actually nice, but marred by tons of quality control issues (call gate, bend gate, and so on).
Yep, a truly exciting year!
But hey, Apple has bought Beats! Now they have a woman beater on the staff! Surely that's a recipe for success!
Umm. I think you missed this part:
That's roughly 10% growth over the same quarter this year.
But hey go ahead and make an ignorant comment like "surely that's a recipe for success."