Apple's Shares Rise On Better-Than-Expected iPhone Sales (fortune.com) 60
Apple reported a 7.2% rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, thanks to better-than-expected sales of its iPhones. "The company said iPhone sales rose 1.6% to 41.03 million in the third quarter ended July 1, above analysts' average estimate of 40.7 million units," reports Fortune. "Apple sold 40.4 million iPhones a year earlier." From the report: Apple's shares rose 4% in after-hours trading on Tuesday to $ 156.00.
Many customers wait for Apple to launch its new smartphones before deciding on upgrading or replacing their current devices, which usually results in iPhone demand tapering in the months before a release. The company forecast total revenue of between $49 billion and $52 billion for the current quarter, while analysts on average were expecting $49.21 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Analysts on average expect the company to sell 45.55 million iPhones in the current quarter, according to FactSet. Apple sold 45.51 million iPhones in the year-ago quarter.
Apple Trumps market (Score:2)
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Apple was better than expected.
Trump is still a fucking douchebag.
Also ipads, etc (Score:5, Informative)
- after a long decline, ipad sales were significantly up at 15%, expected to rise more since the new ones were launched in june. Having replaced my early pleiocene ipad 2 with the new pro 10.5, I think that many will agree that it is an excellent tablet.
- Mac sales were up too
And more interestingly, looking at the future:
- Cook expects great success with ARKit.
- Cook informed that they have a big project ongoing in autonomous systems .
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Every product Apple has ever made since day one has been overpriced and with worse specs than competing products. But, you clearly demonstrate the problem: Apple Up the Ass Syndrome. Whereby you don't know that a whole universe of better products exist outside Apple's prison system.
Sounds like jealousy to me.
And EVERY product Apple has EVER made SINCE DAY ONE...
So, we're also talking about products that had no actual "peer" when Apple produced them, too? How were THOSE "inferior", since there were no equivalents when Apple announced them?
did they lay out how much of the sales were che.. (Score:2)
did they lay out how much of the sales were cheaper devices?
I know apple doesn't huff or puff about it too much, but a lot of what they are selling in asia(through operators, no less)
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..edit..
a lot of what they sell in asia are cheaper devices that are generation or 3(!) old.
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I think Mac sales are likely to go up, as problems w/ the new Windows 10 sales model becomes more transparent. Like I'm never gonna switch to an annual subscription for the OS. Also, the number of interesting things that can be done on PCs, as opposed to Macs, seems to be dwindling all the time (not counting web based applications)
I recently upgraded both my iPhone & iPad to models that have 128GB storage, so that I don't have to micro-manage the storage. At this point, no phone or tablet w/ a mer
Bathroom costs (Score:2)
While I'm not an advocate of those, transgender bathrooms would be lower in cost. Get rid of urinals, have all commodes isolated, and not have any gender specific features, and those would be simpler to make. I've not, however, seen one that allows for more than one person: Starbucks, for instance, just has gender neutral bathrooms to neatly sidestep the issue
How many of those iPhone sales... (Score:1)
How many of those "better than expected" iPhone sales were channel "presales" to MVNOs and the like? I smell a return of the Apple from the mid-90s when they were able for a few years to meet their growth and revenue targets by stuffing their retail channel.
It could just be oddly coincidental that I'm seeing so many "deals" on iPhones now for switching to this carrier or that, or just $150 prepaid for a new iPhone SE tied to boost or virgin when it retails for $400.
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How many of those "better than expected" iPhone sales were channel "presales" to MVNOs and the like? I smell a return of the Apple from the mid-90s when they were able for a few years to meet their growth and revenue targets by stuffing their retail channel.
It could just be oddly coincidental that I'm seeing so many "deals" on iPhones now for switching to this carrier or that, or just $150 prepaid for a new iPhone SE tied to boost or virgin when it retails for $400.
That's the funny thing about Apple: They ONLY count actual END-USER sales; not sales into their "Distribution Channel".
So, unlike others (looking at you, Samsung!), Apple's sales numbers don't "count" until there is an actual, END-USER purchase.
Here's a theory (Score:3)
Perhaps sales haven't tapered off because old shiney does everything that consumers thing new shiney will deliver, so why wait?
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or after reading TFA, new shiney is expected to cost a lot more than old shiney
Apple is widely tipped to adopt higher-resolution OLED displays for the latest iPhone, along with better touchscreen technology and wireless charging - which could come with a $1,000 plus price tag.
Current price for the big iPhone seems to be $769. That's a big jump in price.
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People like to buy phones that get security updates for five years rather than disposable Android shit that you have to throw out after 18 months because an unpatched vulnerability lets the whole planet spy on you.
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That's a speculated price for the rumored "iPhone Pro" (speculated name) model. It's speculated that the anticipated iPhone 7S and 7S Plus models will be in line with their predecessors.
It's all just guessing until they make the formal announcement.
Everyone is in a rush... (Score:4, Funny)
Re: Everyone is in a rush... (Score:2)
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Sure, with a big, ugly adapter. Better than nothing but hardly ideal.
If you think the Apple Lightning headphone adapter is "big", that must be from referring to your micropenis as "big", too:
https://www.apple.com/shop/pro... [apple.com]
Now STFU, you ignorant tool.
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That IS fucking big. Stop making excuses, fanboi.
Relative to WHAT? A FLEA?
Do you have any sense of scale? Do you know how small a LIghtning connector "tongue" is? You can use that to judge the rest of the adapter's size. Or are you counting the short cable as part of it? That's there for convenience. Obviously, the whole thing could have been put in one, rigid body; but that wouldn't be as useful for the user, dumbfuck.
Do you know what 3.5mm looks like? (Hint: Look in your pants).
And oh, BTW, because you are too stupid to figure this out on your own, the
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"brand new" (Score:2)
1) People who's cars aren't brand new
Name a car sold in the last six years that didn't come with a USB port or bluetooth for audio.
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I think my Tacoma is much older than 6 years, it's got 170K miles on it, but I don't remember what year. It didn't come with USB, nor Bluetooth.
However, for $99 and about an hour of my time I put an aftermarket stereo in it with Bluetooth and USB. Totally worth it.
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I don't. Simple reason: I have perfectly good headphones whose only 'drawback' is the aux cable. At home, I do have a good Bluetooth speaker that was gifted to me, but it too has an aux cable just in case the music player doesn't have Bluetooth. In the car, I have a USB port that connects to an iPod player on the navigation system: that's where my Nano lives. The car does have a Bluetooth enabled navigation as well, but I normally connect my phone to that.
In the past, I tried out some wireless headp
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I have had a 6S since about a month after it was released. I've never plugged anything in the headphone port.
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to buy a 6S while they can still get a phone with a headphone jack. I just bought one today for that exact reason. Tried a 7, kept wanting to listen to music only to remember, wait, I don't have the adapter on me.
Why now, though? The 7 has been out for several months now, and people who didn't already know saw what it doesn't have. They could have snapped up a 6 or even a 5s during that time.
One thing that puzzles me - if this is such a great innovation for the 7, why don't they also do it on the iPads and iPods? Have a common headphone/speaker infrastructure? I recently bought a Nano as well, which they are about to end, and even that doesn't have this.
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to buy a 6S while they can still get a phone with a headphone jack. I just bought one today for that exact reason. Tried a 7, kept wanting to listen to music only to remember, wait, I don't have the adapter on me.
Why now, though? The 7 has been out for several months now, and people who didn't already know saw what it doesn't have. They could have snapped up a 6 or even a 5s during that time.
One thing that puzzles me - if this is such a great innovation for the 7, why don't they also do it on the iPads and iPods? Have a common headphone/speaker infrastructure? I recently bought a Nano as well, which they are about to end, and even that doesn't have this.
Because, like with the MacBook Pro (which has a 3.5mm jack, even in the 2017 model), people don't generally drop their iPad in the water like people do with their phones. As far as iPods go, I would imagine the next gen. iPod touch will lose the 3.5 mm jack as well. It just hasn't caught up, yet.
Re:Everyone is in a rush... (Score:4, Funny)
Tried a 7, kept wanting to listen to music only to remember, wait, I don't have the adapter on me.
...but forgot to look in the box it came in to find the adapter that it shipped with.
Piles of Cash... (Score:1)
From today's earning's call for Apple:
Appleâ(TM)s total cash and securities: $261.5 billion
Appleâ(TM)s total debt: $89.8 billion
Net cash position: $171.65 billion
Re: Piles of Cash... (Score:2)
That much cash has got to attract vultures.
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That much cash can also buy a lot of anti-vulture defense systems. Perhaps from U.S. Robotics [youtube.com].
The Apple conspiracy theory (Score:2)