It's not as bad as Google where almost all of their profits come from their search engine. Now, that's a one trick pony.
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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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It's not as bad as Google where almost all of their profits come from their search engine. Now, that's a one trick pony.
You should google how many USA people Apple employs! It's over 50,000. How many jobs does Apple create in the USA in the form of spinoffs? maybe over 500,000!
What you say about people paying taxes on their earnings above - I disagree
You seem to resent success and profit for no good reason.
Take pride in Apple - It's an American Company that is doing a lot more good than you may even know about. Research and compare with other companies and compare the ethics if you want.
Find something else to be negative about haha - I guess there isn't much after this record breaking quarter.
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Just wait a day or two when the big fund managers realize that the only way to improve their massive portfolios is to include more AAPL in their billions of holdings. The empty headed suits take a while to filter this stuff, but the tsunami of AAPL orders is coming! How else can these managers beat the S&P500 for their pension funds?
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Winning what? Across all devices there are far more instances of Linux than Windows.
The only place it isn't winning yet is on the desktop.
The tax system is extremely broken. Cmon, where have you been? And, they may employ some Americans but let's be honest here.... They ought to be employing a LOT more with those kind of mind boggling numbers. What's wrong with sharing wealth with the workforce and those who helped create it?
The fact remains that Apple and various other companies could and should build things here and it would barely dent their stratospheric profit margins.
That's why I'm for tariffs on imports. You wanna make things overseas? No problem.... Pay up.
The problem with Apple and others playing the tax haven games is that regular people that are on payrolls and small business owners are left to pick up the slack which means higher taxes for us. Yeah, that's how it works. So, to satiate the never ending appetites of some big shareholders, me and everyone else has to pay more in property and income taxes to cover the loss of tax revenue due to these schemes.
I don't know whay this is so hard to understand and it's comical that some of the pro investor types cheer over this and then don't realize that their huge tax bill is a by product of it. It's like holding the door open for the guy coming to rob your house and making him a meal as he steals from you. It's sad and funny at the same time.
This world SO needs a system in place to simply eliminate tax shelters and start forcing the issue. It could be done but it'd take cooperation from lots of countries and people. Good luck with that, right?
BLEH.
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Yes, I forgot about the Beats acquisition. You might be right . the Beats acquisition could potentially lead to a revitalized line of Apple music-oriented devices.
However, my gut feeling is that the Beats acquisition had little to do with audio hardware (Apple doesn't really care about those silly headphones). It had mostly to do with software, content, and talent from the Beats company (i.e. the goal is to make iTunes more competitive).
I hope that you are right, nevertheless.
Wow, Apple fans have at last realised the benefits of a phablet and ditched their iPads
Interesting how most of the sales boosts came from China which is the market Apple have only just entered into, and yeap, pretty much as posters have said on here, Apple is just an iOS phone company and nothing else now.
They've been this for quite some time.
What amazing stuff does Google churn out every year that actually makes them money? Music subscriptions on YouTube? Wow that's some mind blowing stuff there.
Google X
Google Labs
Google Research
Apple makes HW Google is a SW company they're really hard to compare. Google does stuff just because, Apple stays focused on their products. Both in some sense push things forward but someone has to do the baseline research.
Wow, Apple fans have at last realised the benefits of a phablet and ditched their iPads
Interesting how most of the sales boosts came from China which is the market Apple have only just entered into, and yeap, pretty much as posters have said on here, Apple is just an iOS phone company and nothing else now.
Yeah because $23B in non-iPhones revenue is "nothing else now". You do realize that's only $3B less than the total revenue Microsoft reported this quarter? Do people knock Faebook and Google because 90%+ of their revenues come from advertising?
I'm talking specifically about stuff that generates revenue/profits for Google. Whether Apple should be involved in moonshots or have an equivalent to Google X is another discussion.
It's called wages and benefits and stock options. They do.
Do you want to share your wealth with me? Please?
If no one does baseline research then products can't be made to make money. The research is the other side of the money making product coin.
If Apple brings back the money that they have made, they will have to pay taxes to the Federal Reserve. Most people don't know that the Federal Reserve is private and owned by german banking families the control everything else. Greed or smart move?
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Well the QC issues are blowing open now but it will be some time before it slows them down in terms if sales.
The majority of Google's revenue is from advertising. How is Google X or Google Research driving more ad revenue?
It's amazing the negative spin on such positive news. Maybe you'd be happier if Apple declared backruptcy and the US lost a couple of hundred thousand jobs in the economy?
It's not it's being done to help their add revenue it's in essence done because. But Google research and X will be used by other companies that will produce products. Again it's two sides of coin Googles ad revenue and strengthening in infrastructure allow them to do things like this.
Pensions and automobiles are two completely different things.
Smartphones and Laptops are not - they are both personal computers.
My apologies for bringing your butt into this. Glad everything's ok there.
I agree, I think the Beats acquisition was mainly for the streaming music service.
However, if Apple are working on a Beats Music rebrand/relaunch - whatever you want to call it - they could be holding out on iPods.
They could be about to ditch the iPod. Then again, they could be about to relaunch them with Wi-Fi + Beats Music built in.
Nope, a music oriented service.
How is it trickier to get money from one search engine than from one phone?