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Make no mistake. Tim Cook is a skinnier version of Ballmer. Total lack of vision. Total lack of the importance of ecosystem (monitors, routers…). Sacrificing user experience for margins (5400rpm spinners…).
Ballmer bombed as CEO of Microsoft and failed to grow the stock price the entire time he was CEO. Hard to compare him to Cook.

So much for "no one will want the iphone without a headphone jack". Most iphones sold ever for a quarter for the worst phone to come out.
 
At running a profitable company? Sure. At providing a wonderful user experience. No.
LOL. You funny. The majority of people are more than happy with user experience. If you're not, you know where you can go; http://m.androidcentral.com

EDIT: This guy replied saying how it's ironic considering I'm on MacRumours. I'm not complaining though. Some people...
 
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As a long I was expecting a miss.

But what Apple delivered was a huge hit. Champagne tonight.
 
At running a profitable company? Sure. At providing a wonderful user experience. No.
As sad as it may be, it is all about Shareholders for every company. Supply and demand. Why lower the price or make radical changes when people keep buying as is? Companies continue to compete against Apple trying to come out with new or better features and sometimes it works and sometimes the phone blows up trying to be better.

I hope the iPhone 8 is radically different.
 
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Make no mistake. Tim Cook is a skinnier version of Ballmer. Total lack of vision. Total lack of the importance of ecosystem (monitors, routers…). Sacrificing user experience for margins (5400rpm spinners…).
Yes that swift programming language is horrible, the processors they're making aren't best in class, focusing on services - that's just stupid, airpods - they didn't fix anyting in the blue tooth arena ... he's just making one stupid decision after the other - NOT!
 
Have to say that's an obscene amount of money, and nothing given back to the customer. Also shows how much of a one trick pony they still are.
Would be nice if they reduced the iPhone and iPad costs in the UK, considering the pounds gone back up but noooo.
What's given to the consumer are the products and services. Apple gets money for them, and investors get the dividend.
 
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Some things to note:

1) This quarter had 14 weeks instead of 13 as in most years, due to a calendering issue. See
http://ped30.com/2016/08/12/apple-extra-week-q1-2017/

2) What that means is that revenue per week was down from last year: $78.4 billion / 14 = $5.6 billion vs. $75.9 billion / 13 = $5.8 billion. So not much growth, I'm afraid.

3) Also, Apple appears convinced that iPads are the future, but iPad sales are shrinking and Macs are growing. Macs currently account for 9% of revenue vs. 7% for iPads.
 
How do you know they sold that many iPhone 7 units?
It says iPhone, not iPhone 7. It could be SE sales.
yah - right - its the se that's selling gangbusters and was out of stock during the sales period. sure thing. I see them all over Manhattan - NOT! but seriously, The Average Selling Price was $695 - that's not because of the SE. and Cook on the call just said "Exceptional demand for iPhone 7, but iPhone 7 Plus was a higher portion of the mix than seen before".
 
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Wow, thats a lot of the business depending on a single product.

That is what I thought also. History has shown us (RIM, Moto) that depending so much on one product line can turn bad quickly if sales were to fall off a cliff. What will be interesting to me is if cell phone makers can keep people buying new phones every two years now that the US market has shifted away from 2 year contracts. More and more people I know are holding on to their phones longer. The next year or two should really give us the answer to this question.
 
That chart sure does point out what a festering steaming pile of failure the watch is. Its percentage doesn't even rate it's own sliver that would only serve to point out the amount of fail.
 
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