Thank goodness! I was waiting to make sure it was at least more then 25. No one is gonna lose sleep tonight for lack of detail on your Apple stocks now! Thank goodness.
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Apple Reports Results for Q2 2012: $11.6 Billion Profit on $39.2 Billion in Revenue
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Thank goodness! I was waiting to make sure it was at least more then 25. No one is gonna lose sleep tonight for lack of detail on your Apple stocks now! Thank goodness.
It's HARD? Is it really that hard to see?? LOL
Or are you just reaching for something - anything - to throw at Apple's ridiculously effective strategy?
The new ipad went on sale March 7. Q2 ended March 31. 24 days of new ipad in the 3 month quarter. I live in a rural area and could not find a 64gig ipad until 2 weeks ago in DC. It's hard to get worked up about the ipad number being "low."
Samsung is a massive company. Even scarier of how much of their bottom line revenue relies on Android phones. Your really not thinking clearly.
I was wondering what your excuse was going to be for the very large drop from the previous quarter. After having Quarter after quarter of recorder sells and then a rather large fall off that defense is rather weak. It would of been one thing if it was a minor fall but this was a rather huge drop for Apple.
It was pretty much across the board that things fell.
Personally I saw this is the time to buy Apple stock. Let it fall then buy some after it has leveled off.
Despite this the iPad is *still* the only viable tablet after over 2 years of competition.
Apple would settle well before a ban if that were to actually happen. Not only that, but Apple doesn't just ride on the iPhone as a stand alone product... It rides on the category of phones. They could make a small one, a cheap one, a big one, a crappy one, but they don't need to like Samsung does. The same is true for all products they have: iPad = tablet category, Mac = CPU category, iTunes = digital content.... You get the point.
"Investors" who think Apple is just one iPhone and one iPad shouldn't be investing.
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So the point of your "it's going down!" posts was that it IS going up, just not up as much as it is in after hours trading?
My Xoom has worked for me from day one, so it is viable as well. Then again, I'm not your average consumer that buys based on whatever one else may have/want or what makes one believe they are better than they actually are.
How so?
Retina displays in new laptops making the cost of goods sold go up.
Perhaps new Mac Pros using more expensive CPU's. Along with fibre thunderbolt which is more expensive.
What is your point?
Would have, should have and what if the sky was falling, Tim Cook had a heart attack, Steve Jobs would be revived, Cupertino would sink under during an earthquake and so on?
Single product success? Have you been following what they sell?
Ever heard of ipads
Ever heard of the itunes store
Ever heard of the app store
Ever heard of lap tops? People switching?
Desktops
Apple TV, just a hobby, but good sales!
The most valuable company in the world right now and please do yourself a favor and read up on things.
Carriers can't lower iPhone subsidies, it would hurt their business way too much. Much of the world is buying it up just fine without subsidy anyway.
Apple's ridiculously effective strategy has been predicated on coming up with new hit products every 3-4 years, each successive one being larger than the previous one. So it is perfectly reasonable to wonder what the next big driver of growth will be. I will admit that my crystal ball is cloudy, even if that makes me an apostate.
I used to work for a company that followed Pareto's 80:20 rule and cut their smallest sellers out of their line every year. After 5 years they discovered sales of their top selling products stopped selling, only to find out that customers perceived they were going out of business because they were dropping so many products. I sure hope Apple doesn't stop dropping their lower selling items. If people want apple pie, they need buy more than apples to get what they want.
There could be *nothing but* a drop from the previous holiday quarter. There is NO WAY Apple could have beat or even equalled those numbers during the immediately following non-holiday quarter. Use your head.
It's impressive as it is that they achieved what they did *this* quarter (especially in iPhone sales) with the stock rebounding.
They are obviously up YoY as well.
I think he meant viable as a product being sold by a business. Viable as in profitable so the company will keep making them.
I bet iPod sales would go up if they had a new iPod Touch. Most of the people who wanted the current iPod Touch probably bought them within a few months of it being released.
That's a strawman invented by some Wall Street analyst. Look at Verizon's and ATT's sales numbers of iPhones vs all others. Like they're going to screw with Apple over subsidies.