Well, just return it then, since everyone I know doesn't those issues, your phone is probably broken.
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Apple Reports Record Earnings and iPhone Sales: $18B Profit on $74.6B in Revenue for Q1 2015
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Well, just return it then, since everyone I know doesn't those issues, your phone is probably broken.
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I know what you mean. I rarely take an interest in financial stuff.
This is exceptional. It's the first quarterly result since the release of Yosemite, which:
I know what you mean. I rarely take an interest in financial stuff.
This is exceptional. It's the first quarterly result since the release of Yosemite, which:
- costs nothing
- broke records in a way that does not deserve congratulations
- is commonly overlooked.
Well, let me put it in perspective.
Mac sales have increased 34 out of the last 35 quarterly reports for AAPL. How many years of growth is that?
Did you know that PC sales have decreased 3% the last couple of years whereas the sales of Mac's have increased 14% yearly?
It is true that there are jillions more PC's out there - but if you are the guy making and selling Mac's, you have potential for sales growth. That's a good thing.
Hope that makes your cup half full instead of half empty
Those are not really turn-on-a-dime kinds of disasters. Even after the iPhone launch, all of those companies had time enough to react.
They just didn't.
Apple is not the kind of company that would not be reacting at all... they even go so far as to basically replace their own products over time (see: iPod).
I had a 17" Matte Macbook Pro up until I bought a new Macbook Pro 15" in late 2013. The reason they don't offer matte screens any more is because they do not need them - the new glass display has essentially nearly as good performance in eliminating reflection as the old matte screen. Removing complications is not a sign of disdain.
What Apple does is improve things over time. Sometimes that improvement may seem like a step backward but it's mostly in preparation of a much better fitting going forward, yes even for pro users.
Totally forget the giant arrangement with IBM to build custom enterprise software did you? Apple is doing the exact same thing.
That has yet to be seen, and I see no reason why it would be true. Apple is still very willing to enter new markets with product, and it doesn't matter if they are not the first company in a space - it hasn't mattered with any previous product line to date.
The strength of Apple is they focus on what customers NEED, not on what customers ask for. It's never about what Apple wants.
Stability goes in cycles; before too long we'll see it swing back to a greater level of stability now that Apple has made a number of large scale changes. There are already many aspects of Apple software that still retain stability - the app store, iCloud backups, various apps they make.
Maybe, but actually I don't think Microsoft figures into it very much. (Why would it?)
Also don't care about snowstorms on WallStreet or Greece or Italy or durable goods 3% down December.
The dumbest thing to watch is Bloomberg or CNBC - except maybe "Cramer" - but just remember that TV is made so that a 12 year old can understand it.
Where are all the geniuses half an hour BEFORE earnings on Bloomberg or CNBC. Look at them all claim how obvious things are after they have happened. Not worth your time watching such junk. The less you pay attention to the TV stock market TV shows the better.
Give it a week to soak into the heads of the big money suits.
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I thought so too, especially since a few hours before the earnings report, the genius analysts bumped their "estimates" up. I thought that was BS from the "analysts".
I'll say it again:
34,000 iPhones sold per hour, every hour, 24/7 all last quarter!
Yeah, I'm sure they're super upset. https://www.macrumors.com/2015/01/26/samsung-majority-a9-chips-next-gen-iphone/
Well said!
At some point should a better phone be created, that won't assure it outsells Apple anyway. The magic Apple logo and halo that surrounds the company will keep them at the top for a long time.
But they didn't report $2.75 EPS did they? I fail to see where you're going with all of this "but what if they posted this" talk. Apple posted stellar numbers. The market will react how they want to react. For now, it's a very positive situation for investors.
Bryan
That'S only a small part of what they used to get from mobile, so this is upsetting.
You are trying to paint a horror picture, but fact is that Apple added 18 billion dollars in the last quarter. Which may be more than any of these companies ever had.
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It's not very much, actually. 0.15%. People would have to spend 12 TRILLION dollar per quarter using iPay for Apple to get the same quarterly profit they are getting now. And with that amount of money available, competitors would create a working solution as well.
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Part of definition of monopoly is how difficult it is for someone else to enter the market. If Apple bought all companies making finger print sensors and refused to sell sensors to any competitor, it would be really easy for a newcomer to enter the market and sell to everyone desperate for sensors.
Well, personally, I think it's shameful that a company chooses to make so much profit. And even more disgusting that they choose to build further on their $180bn (is that right?) cash pile and continue to employ tax avoidance schemes.
It makes me ashamed to own a Mac knowing that I've added to it.
It makes me ashamed to own a Mac knowing that I've added to it.
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-reports-third-quarter-q3fy15-results
Linux isn't loosing it's won where it competes. Linux isn't really competing on the desktop though there are some things coming that will make it more attractive.
Any examples? I use a lot of Apple stuff (but brands do not matter too much to me, I'll use what I feel is best overall for my needs). And I respect Steve Jobs' efforts and the change he helped make.
But please do explain that sentence.
I imagine your answer would be 'bigger iPhone'. Let's not forget Steve also signed off the smaller iPad - yes due to market trends: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/0...e-jobs-of-need-for-7-inch-ipad-in-early-2011/
The spirit of Apple in the early days is no longer there - every one can see that. But that Apple nearly died.
The Apple now, to the Apple in the last few years of Steve is very similar. Pumping out mostly well received products, high levels of customer satisfaction and a healthy underlying business.
I think since Steve's passing the Mac Pro, Touch ID, moving to a custom chip design for the A6 (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6292/iphone-5-a6-not-a15-custom-core), the implementation of Apple Pay, continuing to value user privacy over ad revenue, Swift language, Metal API - all fit " innovative, cutting edge, inventive, and above all...ones that took a chance and were the stuff of imagination" to a degree. That list doesn't stop there. I'm looking forward to HomeKit blossoming, I want to see gen 2 and 3 of Apple Watch. I want to see what the next surprise device will be in 2/3/4 or even 10 years time.
I can't. Apple under late era Steve (post iPhone) and now is pretty similar.
Disagree completely. But I guess without specific examples you've just written words without context.
To find old MacRumors articles (if you know roughly the time), go on the main page, and at the bottom there is a button "Archive" and two buttons "Older posts" and "Newer posts" and then it is some detective work :-(
https://www.macrumors.com/2015/01/12/apple-holiday-quarter-2014-mac-sales/
Apple needs to spend some of that $178 billion on targeted acquisitions that give them product lines that diversify income streams will still being synergetic with existing products.
Not sure what they might be, but with that kind of money they could buy just about anything!
Maybe some of it could be vertical integration, like buying a chip fab? But why buy the cow when you can already milk it?
Beats seems like a marginal idea to try out the concept, but maybe there are better ideas?
Right now seems like too many eggs in one basket. A very profitable basket, but still getting pretty full.
Not sure what they might be, but with that kind of money they could buy just about anything!
Maybe some of it could be vertical integration, like buying a chip fab? But why buy the cow when you can already milk it?
Beats seems like a marginal idea to try out the concept, but maybe there are better ideas?
Right now seems like too many eggs in one basket. A very profitable basket, but still getting pretty full.
To be honest I wouldn't mind Apple slipping a little in terms of revenue. Smaller companies generally take more risks and produces more innovative products imo.
Apple has said Mac sales alone are big enough to be a fortune 500 company. Probably a fortune even smaller number company. if the iPhone dies one day, Apple will still chug along. Not at world record breaking rates line now but it will not die.
The Mac, Apple Pay, iTunes/App stores etc etc will keep Apple alive.
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Year 3000, and this phone will still be alive
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The iPod just moved from a standalone hardware device to an app on a phone. This was always going to happen and we all knew it. But the iPod had to happen before the iPad and iPhone could happen. Nothing lasts forever and the iPod hardware has run it's course.
I don't know. I just said they were disappointing because the number is decreasing and you seemed to have an issue with that. Let me put it this way, I looked at the figures and thought bummers this is disappointing, yet you seemed to have an issue with that, I'm not sure why exactly.
I say the sky is blue, you disagree, that seems to be the order of things here.
Apple are losers. They don' t know what they are doing.
My iPhone 6s still with 256 GB and 1 mm thin still has not been delivered!
Where is the innovation?
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Sir you get it totally. Not many do, I am impressed.
The iPhone and the iPad are indeed personal computers. And I agree with you that the personal computer will not die but it's form factor will. in the 90's the desktop was the main PC. In the 2000's notebooks became popular PCs. And now the iPhone is probably one of the most or the most popular PC on the market. It's a PC that just happens to be able to make phone calls too. And with people choosing the 6 plus instead of a smaller phone and an iPad Mini really shows this well.
I do think the 6 plus is cannibalising iPad Mini sales a little. And to a lesser extent the 6.
Actually no. People just realised they can do everything on their iPhone 6 and 6+ that they did on their iPad Mini. So now they do not need an iPhone and an iPad, they can just buy an iPad 6 or 6 plus and have all of their needs in one device.
I know many people who bought a 6 or 6 plus and sold/gave away their iPad Mini because the 6 or 6 plus does everything the Mini can.