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Apple Reports Record 1Q 2011: $6 Billion Profit on $26.74 Billion in Revenue

Apple knows how to make business - they are not going after 'market share' but making profit with high quality products. They invest in tons of design studies and new technologies and don't waste money putting BS products out that nobody cares about. The high investments in before putting a product out pays off - high initial cost (and high product prices), but the customer knows they can expect something for it.
 
TheSlush said:
Wow, NO questions about Steve's health?
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URFloorMatt said:
Not at all appropriate in this setting, and the threat of his potential/sudden incapacity has been (mostly) priced into the stock for a while now anyway.
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cvaldes said:
The analysts are probably smart enough to understand the part about "respect my privacy" from Steve's e-mail.

Also, this was a finance conference call, not a postgame media circus. It's about business.
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Yeah yeah. But...

1.) You're overrating analysts' senses of respect and appropriateness.

2.) It's not an inappropriate question, because almost everyone agrees that Steve's capacity has some affect on Apple's future performance in some way, and there continues to be debate about Apple's transparency to shareholders about Steve's health.

3.) As you can plainly see in the original post, even MacRumors itself was assuming health questions would be raised.

Rather, I suspect that there were no health questions because the analysts simply knew they wouldn't get any further answers about it. But I'm still shocked no one even tried to get some reaction out of Tim Cook about Steve's situation!
 
kas23 said:
Ok dude, please make a list of the differences between the original iPhone UI and iOS 3.0. Be very specific. Stand behind your statements. And be aware, the vast majority of iPad applications at the time were just scaled-up iPhone apps. So, I'll just sit back and wait for your list. Crickets.
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I'm perfectly willing to stand behind my statements. I have no idea what the differences between iOS 1.0 and iOS 3.0 have to do with anything.

Can you tell the difference between the mail app on the iphone and the mail app on the iPad? The one on the iPad has a completely different UI that takes advantage of the larger screen. The same can be said about every Apple app on the iPad. It has new interface elements such as popovers added to take advantage of the extra real estate. New gestures such as pinch to open in the Photos app. New APIs.

The fact that all third-party apps haven't been updated to support the iPad isn't relevant.
 
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alent1234 said:
people forget that you still need a computer with the iPad, but Android is a bit more independent.

i have to buy a new laptop this year and will probably buy the iPad2 as well. for the laptop i'm going to get a dell or something similar since the iPad and the iphones we have in the house are used a lot more
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The question regarding Microsoft's profits are:

1. How close were you to not buying a laptop with Windows (Microsoft profit)?
2. How close were you to buying a netbook?
 
OllyW said:
It already has in most other places outside the US. I wonder if it has much of a bearing on 62% of revenue coming from international sales?
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CDMA for China and India. I know China already has the iPhone, but the biggest chinese carrier is CDMA, I think.

Massive, massive markets. Massive profits, too.
 
gangst said:
As for China...yes Apple has made significant progress there, but don;t expect Chinese sales to revolutionise AAPL. There may be 1.3bn people living in China, but the majority live in poverty and the rich elite is very small in number.
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Completely wrong. On the conference call, Tim Cook said Apple made $2.6 billion in revenue in China last quarter. That's 4 times what they earned there a year ago.

Also, China's middle class is growing very, very rapidly. There is huge upside for Apple and other American companies in China.
 
Cheap line

Michaelgtrusa said:
Thanks to the slave communist labor that's cheating the world and sold Americans out.
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How is employing people who are not American cheating the world, and as for selling out America you should thank the bankers and politicians.
I travel to China often and communism isn't hurting them much at all.
Just be thankful companies like Apple with innovation and vision are still US based. And don't forget who has been bailing out the US and western economies.
 
TheSlush said:
2.) It's not an inappropriate question, because almost everyone agrees that Steve's capacity has some affect on Apple's future performance in some way, and there continues to be debate about Apple's transparency to shareholders about Steve's health.

3.) As you can plainly see in the original post, even MacRumors itself was assuming health questions would be raised.

Rather, I suspect that there were no health questions because the analysts simply knew they wouldn't get any further answers about it. But I'm still shocked no one even tried to get some reaction out of Tim Cook about Steve's situation!
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they probably didnt ask since they had just released the press release the day before, no need.
 
Apple’s Really Good Quarter Was Really, Really Good in China

gangst said:
Just a few comments...

As for China...yes Apple has made significant progress there, but don;t expect Chinese sales to revolutionise AAPL. There may be 1.3bn people living in China, but the majority live in poverty and the rich elite is very small in number.
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http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20110119/apples-really-good-quarter-was-really-really-good-in-china/?mod=ATD_rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
 
rdowns said:
Dream on. Apparently, only the geek nerd tech crowd wants one of these.
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I am far from being a geek nerd tech. What I am is a long time Mac user that is looking for a Mac that is smaller than the Mac Pro that can easily be opened using normal tools (no putty knives or suction cups) when a hard drives needs replacing or upgrading. Wanting a user friendly Mac case that holds two hard drives and an optical drive and that lets me decide on what monitor I want is hardly geek nerd tech. It is a good solid product that works. Which is what Apple used to be about.
Yes, design is what helped build Apple to where it is today. But for the desktop line I think design has taken over and is now limiting the usability of the computers.
 
G4er? said:
I am far from being a geek nerd tech. What I am is a long time Mac user that is looking for a Mac that is smaller than the Mac Pro that can easily be opened using normal tools (no putty knives or suction cups) when a hard drives needs replacing or upgrading. Wanting a user friendly Mac case that holds two hard drives and an optical drive and that lets me decide on what monitor I want is hardly geek nerd tech. It is a good solid product that works. Which is what Apple used to be about.
Yes, design is what helped build Apple to where it is today. But for the desktop line I think design has taken over and is now limiting the usability of the computers.
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I miss the $1500 Power Macs of yesteryear... :(
 
TheSlush said:
Yeah yeah. But...

1.) You're overrating analysts' senses of respect and appropriateness.

2.) It's not an inappropriate question, because almost everyone agrees that Steve's capacity has some affect on Apple's future performance in some way, and there continues to be debate about Apple's transparency to shareholders about Steve's health.

3.) As you can plainly see in the original post, even MacRumors itself was assuming health questions would be raised.

Rather, I suspect that there were no health questions because the analysts simply knew they wouldn't get any further answers about it. But I'm still shocked no one even tried to get some reaction out of Tim Cook about Steve's situation!
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What tech bloggers think is irrelevant to this situation.

I did not expect there to be any questions about Jobs' health. The analysts knew that they would not get any answers.

It's entirely possible that was made clear in an invitation e-mail to the participating analysts.
 
OllyW said:
I paid £925 for my refurbed G5 tower 6 years ago. The cheapest Mac Pro refurb is now £1735. :eek:
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My dual G4 Power Mac was $1699 new. Worst computer I've ever owned only because of the maddening fan noise (even after Apple sent the "improved" power supply) but I did love the easy access in my old Power Macs to HD, RAM and optical drives.

Now the cheapest Power Mac is $2499. :(

But I must admit I'd have a hard time going back to a tower after using iMacs for years. So maybe Apple is onto something after all.
 
LagunaSol said:
My dual G4 Power Mac was $1699 new. Worst computer I've ever owned only because of the maddening fan noise (even after Apple sent the "improved" power supply) but I did love the easy access in my old Power Macs to HD, RAM and optical drives.

Now the cheapest Power Mac is $2499. :(

But I must admit I'd have a hard time going back to a tower after using iMacs for years. So maybe Apple is onto something after all.
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I also had a jet engined MDD G4. :eek:

Like you I'm a iMac convert and can't imagine buying a big tower system again. :)
 
einmusiker said:
hire a bunch of folks and put some people to work apple!!!!!!
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Retail stores opening all the time (every 9 to 10 days on average) in the USA and around the globe. Here in the United States, the pay starts at more than 150% of the federal minimum wage. Currently, Apple has over 34,000 full-time regular (non-contractual) employees with the bulk in the USA.

http://www.ifoapplestore.com

Have your sights set higher up the chain? Apple has, as of today, nearly 1900 corporate job openings listed on their website. Also, Apple often has leadership programs both at the corporate and retail level that can take you around the world. For example, Apple is looking for college grads with at least 3.0 GPAs for their Apple Store Leadership Program until March 14, 2011.

http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/leaderprogram.html

Start your search: http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/startsearch.html

Interested in their benefits: http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/benefits.html
 
singe said:
How is employing people who are not American cheating the world, and as for selling out America you should thank the bankers and politicians.
I travel to China often and communism isn't hurting them much at all.
Just be thankful companies like Apple with innovation and vision are still US based. And don't forget who has been bailing out the US and western economies.
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When you lose your job to off shoring, you won't believe the crap you just wrote. Yes, our politicians did dig us a hole and borrow a boat load of money from china as well as other countries. How would you expect that money get paid back? There is no way to pay it back unless jobs are created to get more tax money. As long as SLAVE labor is making all this stuff for dirt cheap, no country will ever get out of the hole. Sooner or later, the people of china will decide they had enough and revolt. Hopefully sooner than later.
 
bearcatrp said:
As long as SLAVE labor is making all this stuff for dirt cheap, no country will ever get out of the hole.
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Slaves? Hardly. If the wages were not attractive vs the alternatives, the jobs would not be filled. Simple. The market bears what the market will bear. It's called free enterprise. Even in communist China.

The highly-regulated (and demanding) labor force in Europe has not done that continent many favors. Note their typical unemployment rate (even in good times) is roughly equivalent (or higher) to what ours is in the U.S. at the bottom of a hard recession.

You could, of course, talk with your wallet and not with your keyboard and start buying products only made in the U.S. and Europe by laborers making $X per hour (whatever your personally-designated level of "fairness" is), but I assume you'll just keep buying cheap stuff while complaining about the system that provided it to you.

*shrug*
 
bearcatrp said:
I would be curious about how much apple charges the average person in china for apps compared to what we in the USA pay? With what a laborer makes in china is no where near what a laborer makes in the US so am presuming they pay allot less. Anyone know?
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Same price and in US dollars according to WSJ.
 
rdowns said:
Completely wrong. On the conference call, Tim Cook said Apple made $2.6 billion in revenue in China last quarter. That's 4 times what they earned there a year ago.

Also, China's middle class is growing very, very rapidly. There is huge upside for Apple and other American companies in China.
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Really? Where have you been?
 
singe said:
How is employing people who are not American cheating the world, and as for selling out America you should thank the bankers and politicians.
I travel to China often and communism isn't hurting them much at all.
Just be thankful companies like Apple with innovation and vision are still US based. And don't forget who has been bailing out the US and western economies.
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Bailing everyone out with money they have stolen! We saved them from collapse in the 1970's.
 
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