Earlier in January, Apple announced that customers spent $1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases in just two weeks over the holiday season.
Article Link: Phil Schiller Says November 2016 Had the 'Highest Monthly Sales Ever in App Store History'
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Phil Schiller Says November 2016 Had the 'Highest Monthly Sales Ever in App Store History'
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Earlier in January, Apple announced that customers spent $1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases in just two weeks over the holiday season.
Article Link: Phil Schiller Says November 2016 Had the 'Highest Monthly Sales Ever in App Store History'
Phil always says that the most recent thing was the biggest best ever. He needs to actually do something and stop saying.
Phil also said the memorable "Can't innovate anymore my ass".
Phil's ego and waistline seem to be the "biggest and best ever"....
Perfect for Apple. Money comes in without their having to build anything.
what's with apple's vagueness?
Tell us how much that is!
"We sold so many apple watches!" How many?!
What do they tell their investors regarding iphone sales next quarter? "we sold a lot!"
Tell us how much that is!
"We sold so many apple watches!" How many?!
What do they tell their investors regarding iphone sales next quarter? "we sold a lot!"
Man, this is shaping up to be a very depressing holiday period for the Apple haters. Record breaking sales of the new MacBooks; record breaking sales of the Apple Watch, and now record breaking App store sales. Not to mention Apple Pay reaching 75% of all US transactions, the iPhone reaching 90 plus percent of the entire cell phone industry profits and on pace to sell close to 80 million phones this quarter!
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- "This just shows Apple's delusional fanboys will buy anything"
- "This is all about Jony Ive's obsession with thinness!"
March on team, and remember Winston Churchill's famous words -- "Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy!"
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Uh... when I watched the last keynote, I remember thinking to myself, "Man, Phil looks like he has lost some weight."
Remember that most of that money goes to developers, large and small. Thanks to the App store that Apple built with its billions of dollars and hard work and talent of its employees, developers have garnered about $60 billion dollars so far. Think of that amazing statistic and the impact it has had on people and their families. But for Apple building the fantastically successful iPhone and iPad, and the terrific iOS, and great App store, the hundreds of thousands of developers throughout the world wouldn't have this opportunity to impact the world from whereever they live and make this money with their hard work and talent. It's a beautiful marriage that we should celebrate during this holiday period.
Merry Christmas to all
Everything Apple actually talks about is always "the best/most/greatest/fastest/successful EVER!"
The only way to know what isn't "amaze-balls" is to simply look at what they never talk about.
The only way to know what isn't "amaze-balls" is to simply look at what they never talk about.
Existing Apple customers are still buying. So no surprise there. I wonder how much more was spent. It's his job to put out this pointless info and make the company "look good".
Talk to me in a year or two, especially if there is no change in current product trajectory. It just seems to me like this is more hot air blown into the bubble.
Talk to me in a year or two, especially if there is no change in current product trajectory. It just seems to me like this is more hot air blown into the bubble.
Thanks.
I was about to post how worthless the haters made these threads these days. You saved a thread.
I was about to post how worthless the haters made these threads these days. You saved a thread.
There, fixed it for you.
I've been in Apple-induced depression for years now, but this holiday season drives it home further than any other, after the disaster (in my opinion) that is the current Apple product lineup.
They obviously built the ecosystem and get enormous credit for that. My post was simply to point out that they are increasingly favoring revenue streams like this that don't require as much R&D and overhead as building hardware.
OK, understand that, but you do realize that Apple has been on a huge accelerating R and D push for the past few years and is now spending more on R and D than but a handful of companies in the world, over $10 billion per year. That tells me that they continue to massively prepare for the future and have a bunch of great products in the pipeline as tens of thousands of engineers with tens of billions of dollars are undoubtedly working on some pretty cool things other than emojis
OK, understand that, but you do realize that Apple has been on a huge accelerating R and D push for the past few years and is now spending more on R and D than but a handful of companies in the world, over $10 billion per year. That tells me that they continue to massively prepare for the future and have a bunch of great products in the pipeline as tens of thousands of engineers with tens of billions of dollars are undoubtedly working on some pretty cool things other than emojis
I hope you're right but the recent dropping of the popular and critically acclaimed Airport products is a very bad harbinger for me of where they're headed. I don't think they want to be in the computer business. They want to be a services and consumer goods company.
You both make good points. It's really hard to be in the peanut gallery where I'm sitting and make sense of Apple right now. As a customer I've not been thrilled with them lately and have moved away onto other products. But I think they aren't as horrible as some people make them out to be on this forum. Right now it's a huge ball of "meh" but the future could go either way. But there's no denying they invested an enormous amount into R&D.