I don't know about $100B, but I'm pretty confident Apple will exceed their last guidance range.
If they actually sold 35M iPhone X, it's going to be really close to $100B based on my math in that post. It almost has to be because they ARE going to sell 50M other devices. It's just going to happen. With Services at 20% growth, Mac, iPad, and "other" with the Watch 3, That's going to be $25-30B non iPhone sales.
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Don't let the data stand on it's own... you need to evoke emotion to be able to sell your bias which Macrumors is clearly doing and folks are drinking the kool-aid like it's 100 outside.
In all seriousness, most people don't critically think. They don't look at the numbers themselves and only look at the headlines and at best, read the whole article. And what's worst is you can't really say what was gained or loss with out knowing the actually numbers of consumers lost/gained, all we get is percentages. IE lost 5.5% in Japan say out of 100 person market is only 5.5 people but gained 4.6% in China out of a 1 million person market. So net gain is 459,994.5 people.
This my friends is how people lie with statistics. Show percentages without a reference to the actual numbers.
If you think you're so smart, you'll realize these are not official numbers and are essentially garbage...even the "good" results from China.
The problem is, you don't know the numbers behind the percentages and they are only a very small sample size of the total devices which for Apple is well over 1B.
Wait until February 1 to determine if Apple had a great quarter. Too much guesswork in data like this.
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The article talks about bits of the quarter and China being "stellar".
I think it's signficant that the countries with long term high iOS usage, USA, UK, Japan have seen a large drop in iOS customers. I think this is terrible news for Apple, they've lost a huge amount of customers to Android in their traditionally strong markets.
Just for myself, the last time Apple looked at a drop in sales coming up to a reporting period they lobbed out the SE in April 2016 so I'm hoping this happens again.
These numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. The chances of them actually losing a significant amount of their customer base to Android are very small. The pie gets bigger, so a small increase or decrease in share doesn't mean what the raw numbers will tell you. This is also just a sample, not the overall real numbers. Market share is VERY hard to calculate as it's a moving target and you can never really capture the whole market. Total iOS devices in use is a much better metric and Apple just said there are more iOS devices active than ever. Growth.
If Apple sells 82M+ iPhone this quarter, you can bet they didn't lose share.
