Posted on 01/27/2015 1:57:48 PM PST by Enlightened1
Apple has announced their Q1 2015 earnings and the numbers include Apple announces Q1 2015 results: 74.5 million iPhones, 21.4 million iPads, 5.5 million Macs sold, $74.6 billion in revenue earned! Apple's CEO, Tim Cook:
"We'd like to thank our customers for an incredible quarter, which saw demand for Apple products soar to an all-time high," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "Our revenue grew 30 percent over last year to $74.6 billion, and the execution by our teams to achieve these results was simply phenomenal."
Highest-ever revenue & earnings drive 48% increase in EPS Growth led by record revenue from iPhone, Mac & App Store
(Excerpt) Read more at imore.com ...
I don't post things I am not prepared to back up. You, on the other hand have posted a lot of FUD.
So responding to unprovoked insults is now a “tantrum?”
dick.
Apple sold more iPhones in the December holiday quarter than Spain and Australia have people combined.
Yet Freedumb2003, and Edh would have us all believe all of those people have are Bambozzled iSheep just repurchasing what they've already bought before. How illogical can they get to cling to their upside-down, clunky, and in-the-long-run just as expensive devices.
Wow! That’s FUNNY! iMessageBoardBehaviorAnalyzer app or something along those lines? I need to get that app.
Seriously, you have the most impressive arsenal of cut-and-paste responses to almost anything. You have cut-and-paste graphs, cut-and-paste bar charts, cut-and-paste news articles, cut-and-paste rebuttals, and, now, cut-and-paste analysis and classification of message board behavior. Amazing. I’ll cut and paste a “Thank You” for introducing me to MAPS.
For whatever it’s worth, I own an iPad 1. I also have an iPhone 4s that I use for running apps that interface to the hardware I develop. I find nothing magical about either of them. Rock solid engineering, yes, but nothing magical.
In fact, overall, I find zero appreciable difference between iOS and Android. Certain features on all sorts of PDAs/smartphones have impressed me over the years, but no one model stands out to me.
I do like Apple stock though!
I’ll certainly grant you that a majority of the Android devices are complete trash. However, any of the high end Android models are as good or better than the iPhone.
Anyway, I’ll get back to doing my boring engineering work on my boring Windows workstation with my boring Nexus 6 and boring iPad 1st generation playing music in the background.
You guys have fun with your Apple news tonight. I’m sure the parties are going to be crazy!
Also, be sure to say a prayer to St. Steve Jobs tonight and thank him for making your life complete.
In the meantime, us MAPS sufferers are going to go back to our piles of FUD and and wonder why we don’t get all orgasmic over our various technological tools when news breaks that more people are using them.
You hypnotize victims REALLY get your dander up when your religion is challenge.
I’m trying to figure out how using a 64 bit processor will alleviate memory utilization personally ... I can see it being easier to address more memory/peripherals in a 64 bit environment, but going to a 64 bit processor usually means you require the same or slightly more memory for software in my experience.
Then again, the only magic I am into is when I see a video of Olivia Newton John singing it ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj5vagsGC38
It was either her or that zany liberal Lynda Carter that made me realize “woah, dude, chicks are cool” when I was really young :-).
i suggest you upgrade your boring iPad 1st generation. . . and your iPhone 4s because you are woefully outdated on both. Part of your problem is that you DON'T use the best versions currently so you think the latest Androids are better. In the meantime, try not to enter Apple threads and throw insults around. . . it will get you a better welcome.
I have facts and truth that I recall to rebut FUD. . . and know where to find them.
Ignorance is a terrible thing, so in that vein, let me shed some light.
64 bit processors have DOUBLE the number of accumulators, and each of these accumulators is 64 bits (ie. double the width of the 32 bit counterparts). Now, a accumulator is basically a near-zero latency storage register, used commonly in software to hold a number that will be modified. Such as add two different accumulators together, and store the result in a third (or replace the value in either of the first two accumulators).
Now, if you have 2x the accumulators of a 32 bit machine, you have twice the number of near-zero latency memory caches. This allows simple processes to be performed much faster, than having to move valued in and out of accumulators (latency) so you can do what you need to do. This is one of the principle values of having a 64 bit machine. Also, since each cache is 2x as large, it’s also possible to use the upper and lower 32 bits in each accumlator separately - thus giving you virtually 4x the near-zero latency when running code.
It has value, this is why the iPhones do very well in benchmarks.
No, it's just that normal people get tremendously offended by those who pick fights, then pretend the ensuing conflict wasn't their doing....
http://stocktwits.tumblr.com/post/109355351185/apple-has-178-billion-in-cash-heres-just-how
Hi Swordmaker, I have appreciated your knowledge of Apple products in previous discussions. We are retired and unsure that we could justify the expense of even a used iPhone at this time. But we are very curious. 18 Billion dollars in profit indicates that Apple must be doing something right. We would appreciate your insight. Here is our current situation:
My wife and I have two Samsung S3 phones on Ting. We paid about $100 a piece for them on eBay... both of them look like new. Ting charges $6 a month for every handset on your account... then they charge you for your usage of minutes, texts and data. There is no contract and when we signed up... no activation fees... I am not sure if that is still the case. Our Ting account averages about $30 a month for both phones.
We also have a Samsung S3 on Freedompop which costs $20 a month for unlimited everything. We use it for listening to Pandora in the car and as a wireless hotspot for our tablets and laptops when we are traveling. Freedompop uses VOIP for voice calls so the call quality is unpredictable. This is why we usually use Ting for voice calls unless we are in town. Freedompop works fine for texting.
Both Freedompop and Ting currently support up to the iPhone 5 cell phones that have been previously activated on the Sprint Network. A decent looking and working used Sprint iPhone 5 is currently around $200 or more on eBay. We have rooted all of our Samsung S3 Phones and all of them can be used as wireless hotspots for no extra charges and without violating TOS agreements. Can you do that with your iPhone?
The S3 phones have decent cameras, but I am a bit of a photography enthusiast so I almost always use my much more capable DSLR and Fuji 3D camera.
We have a lot of apps that we have purchased or gotten for free over the years from the Play store and the Amazon App Store that we are very familiar with. For Christmas I received a used Samsung “smart watch” which interfaces with the S3. I didn’t want to hurt my wife’s feelings, but I thought it was stupid to begin with, but the thing is incredible and I wear it literally 24 hours a day, because it even keeps track of how long I sleep, along with so many other features that I don’t even want to waste everyone’s time trying to list them all.
I really would like to know from you or any of the other iPhone aficionados what your phones do that makes them so much valuable than our little Samsung S3 phones? This is a sincere request. I hope that it is not too far outside the parameters of the original discussion. It might help a lot of us who are not Apple users understand why it is that Apple is doing so well.
W have 2 iPhone 5’s on Ting.
Works fine, but be sure your apps are off when away from wireless, or the data adds up pretty fast.
This isn’t just a Ting thing, it was the same on Verizon before we switched over.
When we don’t use the phones, we REALLY don’t use them. When we do, it’s mostly travelling.
Many of the apps you have you will find better and more sophisticated apps in the iOS environment. . . especially in photography. Many of those will be free.
I am firmly convinced of the superiority of the iOS ecosystem and the iPhones over the Samsungs. I’ve seen too many people fighting with their Samsung and other Android phones while problems with iPhones are generally minor when they occur and quickly fixed in an update. Androids rarely get updated.
Frankly, fireman15, with all you’ve told me, at this time, with the gift of the watch and the accounts you’ve got in place, although the iPhone 5s and 6s would work with your accounts. I would highly recommend that you stay with what you have until the next upgrade cycle. Then you can buy some iPhones and upgrade. But for now, stay with the phones you have. There is no reason to change.
Thanks, that is interesting and makes good sense. We try to be careful about the apps we have installed that use data on Samsung S3’s we use on Ting when we are out and about as well. We have managed to keep our data usage at the lowest tier on Ting most of the time.
On Freedompop our first GigaByte comes in at 4G speeds after that they throttle our download speeds down to around 1 Mbps, but the latency and upload speeds are still pretty good so it isn’t very noticeable unless you are trying to watch an HD movie or something very data intensive.
Hi Swordmaker, thank you for the advice. All of our devices even the watch have been purchased on eBay and have not really lost much value. We have probably spent $100 on Android Apps over the years, but we can still use those on our tablets if we chose to switch phones. So it would be possible for us try an iPhone without losing a lot.
We generally wait until a new generation of a device has been released before we buy a used device from the previous generation. So we would not be purchasing an iPhone 6 until sometime after the 7 was introduced and the price dropped.
As far as photography and videography... I remember a couple years back a friend of mine used his iPhone 4 to take video of his snowmobile adventures. Then he switched to a GoPro camera and he felt that the GoPro videos were superior. I was not sure about the convenience of using either, but in my opinion the iPhone videos were better.
On the other hand I know that iPhones have very good sensors but they are still much smaller than those found in most dslr cameras and so have a much smaller amount of light available to convert into images. I also have made a considerable investment in high quality interchangeable lenses and also lighting equipment most of which could probably not be used with an iPhone.
Thank you again for sharing your advice.
I don’t remember what model it was, but it was in 2012.
It didn’t have a USB port, so it was kinda useless to me.................
Of course the iPhone has never had a USB port on it since it was introduced in 2007, but it does plug “into” a USB port. As to whether it’s useful or not, I guess that would depend on what you wanted to do with the phone.
I don’t have a cellphone, of any kind.
I wanted to use the iPad to send and receive pics from my computer and other devices.
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