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Apple Reports Results for Q3 2012: $8.8 Billion Profit on $35 Billion in Revenue
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Spinning a little, aren't you?
Now, let's see. Analysts predicted Apple profits much more accurately than Apple did in all but two quarters in the last 10 years. Apple consistently underestimated them. Would you say that Apple guys are absolutely lousy at running their business?
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I'd say this profit miss explains why Apple wants so much money from Samsung. It's very unlikely they are going to get any though.
So much money 
but the main information given was the release of mountain lion, thats all i wanted to hear!
Besides iPod were still sold, didn't expect that much
but the main information given was the release of mountain lion, thats all i wanted to hear!Besides iPod were still sold
, didn't expect that much
Edit: I'm a cnbc watcher, and they said that Apple missed their guidance, and so did the analysts. I don't think that I misunderstood them, but all the Internet news stories say that Apple slightly beat their guidance. Sorry for jumping the gun.
"We are also really looking forward to the amazing new products we’ve got in the pipeline." e.g. the iMac update in 2013, 2014 oder maybe 2015
So wait, Tim Cook said they had a bunch of awesome **** in store for 2012, is this really all we're getting?
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Apple knows how much product they move, they undervalue it as a marketing gimmick, none of this "analysts are right!!!" Bull ****.
Again, THEY DIDN'T MISS! Good lord, if you're going to try and criticize at least get it right, they missed analyst expectations but the actual guidance target they slightly exceeded. As for Apple guidance versus analyst predictions there's a key difference between those two figures:
Apple issue guidance at the start of the quarter with very little actual sales data.
Analysts issue their guesses, oops sorry, predictions at the end of the quarter with considerable sales data.
Hmm, can't imagine why Analyst numbers tend to be close to the actual results, nope, not even a little.
Yes, they did.
Apple has a long history of low-balling on guidance - if they only make their guidance, that's considered a miss.
I blame the lower-than-expected sales numbers due to the lack of product updates last quarter.
For, what was it, almost five months? No new products. No new announcements.
Of course they had a down quarter. Everyone was waiting for Apple to release the "next big thing" and they took too long to do it. That being said, I don't think it's anything to worry about.
With the newly updated MacBooks, plus the new iPhone, rumors of a new iPad and more Retina Macs on the way? They'll blow next quarter out of the water.
For, what was it, almost five months? No new products. No new announcements.
Of course they had a down quarter. Everyone was waiting for Apple to release the "next big thing" and they took too long to do it. That being said, I don't think it's anything to worry about.
With the newly updated MacBooks, plus the new iPhone, rumors of a new iPad and more Retina Macs on the way? They'll blow next quarter out of the water.
And if the stupidly myopic iPad Mini is REALLY launched by Cook (due to his pandering to the benighted crowds), the disaster is gonna be even bigger...short it while you can.
Learn a little about the Wall Street. Nobody cares about Apple's own expectations. Apple is well known to under-predict their sales (one average by 13%). Market sets company's stock price according to analyst expectations and when actual results miss those analyst expectations the stock will pay the price (i.e. fall)
They guided $8.68/$34B and came in at $9.32/$35B so they handily beat their own guidance. It was the predictions of the so-called pundits and analysts that they missed.
This isn't going to matter in a few months as the stock roars back with the lead up to the iPhone launch. The big news for me is that ML will be released tomorrow!
They did NOT miss their public guidance. They were right on target. Of course, everyone expects them to "sandbag" their guidance, so when they are spot on, like they were this quarter, it's a "miss."