Apple announces Q1 2015 results: 74.5 million iPhones, 21.4 million iPads, 5.5 million Macs sold

iMore ^ | 01/27/15 | Rene Ritchie,

[Red Badger]

I had an iPad.
I took it back to the store..................

[Star Traveler]

Which model was it? The models from the first iPad to the latest one out there today are all in service these days ... but the difference between that first one (even though it was terrific in its day) is like a Model T to a modern car of today!

Now that I know what a modern one is like, I wouldn’t want a “Model T” ... :-) ...

AND ... for the iPad I have now - it has replaced about 90% of what I do on a desktop. It’s quite amazing.

[HamiltonJay]

Already happened. Post #3 already took th cheap shots.

Of course no need to point out his falacy since samsung’s profits and margins are dropping like stones.

[9thLife]

No Big Macs, tho.

[PIF]

mac zomies are well known billion trillionaies who recirculates all the money which falls off their overgrown money trees, lest they dull their lawnmowers causing the planet to overheat.

[Crusher138]

My new employee has the newest Samsung Galaxy 5,786,341. We had to hook it up to our Square account...no problems, a little kludgy, but no problems.

Her battery died and she needed to charge a customer’s card, so she borrowed my wife’s iPhone. First time she had ever used one.

She comes up to me after the customer has gone and says. “how long do I have to work here before I get one of these?”

[Swordmaker]

APPLE: redecorating yesterday's technology for the drones today!

Please show us the Android phones with working 64bit processors with a running 64bit operating system with 64 bit apps. Sorry, you can't. Apple is on it second generation 64 bit iPhones and iPads that technology. . . and Android is just getting into the starting gate. How about working fingerprint recognition? Not the flakey one that Android phones tried and failed at.

[freedumb2003]

>>Please show us the Android phones with working 64bit processors with a running 64bit operating system with 64 bit apps.<<

means nothing in terms of usability.

>>How about working fingerprint recognition?<<

One app.. big deal. The rest is back of the pack stuff. Or need I remind you about the failure of the early map app?

These things leapfrog each other every generation, but Apple didn’t quite make the leap this time.

But Hypnotoad will keep you from understanding this...

[Swordmaker]

One app.. big deal. The rest is back of the pack stuff. Or need I remind you about the failure of the early map app?

it is not an "app". . . it is hardware and several Android manufacturers are crying that they cannot take advantage of the same hardware because Apple owns it.

Apple Maps was not a "failure," it had problems but I've been using it successfully since it was released. The "failures" had to do with a new feature that Google Maps added later and had similar "Failures" with . . . 3D views. In addition, some things were misplaced at about the same rate as Google Maps misplaced things. . . because the data came from an equally accurate mapping service. This was confabulated into "Failure." Apple Maps has matured into what many reviewers say is a better app than Google Maps at this point.

These things leapfrog each other every generation, but Apple didn’t quite make the leap this time.

That is not what the reviewers are saying. . . and the sales. Samsung's flagship line is down 26% in sales. . . and Apple is up 46%. In fact Apple is taking 33% of the smartphone market in South Korea, Samsung's home market. That shows you are wrong.

[roadcat]

Bill Gates gets billions to waste on pet feel-good projects while the US worker gets....food stamps.

Something tells me those US workers should get out of the food stamp line and get their butts to work. The Asian workers work hard. There is hope - most of those workers working for Apple in the USA are US citizens, not green card holders as you say. The green card holders wouldn't have the understanding or knowhow to work for Apple. Those Apple workers in the USA are techies. We need to replace our dirt-bag president with one who encourages our youth to learn engineering, not how to get food stamps. Unfortunately, black Americans are largely absent from the desire to learn and work, and it's mostly whites and Asians who are doing the techie work here.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

My daughter bought an iPad. Then I bought an iPad mini. Then I bought an iPad with 4g. All of them are still used daily. Amazing devices.

Typing this on my Windows laptop (killer box from work). But almost all my surfing, emailing and such happens on the iPad mini now.

[freedumb2003]

>>That is not what the reviewers are saying. . . and the sales. Samsung’s flagship line is down 26% in sales. . . and Apple is up 46%. In fact Apple is taking 33% of the smartphone market in South Korea, Samsung’s home market. That shows you are wrong.<<

You confuse sales and usability (again, Hypnotoad). The fact Apple has bamboozled so many people for so long just means they package their religion better.

As I said, the iPhone 6s were already a generation old, CPU notwithstanding. What cracks me up is Apple said the Samsung 3 and Note 2 were TOO BIG. Until they had to play catch up.

Ho hum.

[edh]

Don’t mess with 4 year old men and their religion. He’s simply doing his part so that he’s accepted into iHeaven by Steve Jobs.

[freedumb2003]

>>Don’t mess with 4 year old men and their religion. He’s simply doing his part so that he’s accepted into iHeaven by Steve Jobs.<<

LOL — so true!

[Swordmaker]

One app.. big deal. The rest is back of the pack stuff. Or need I remind you about the failure of the early map app?

Secure Enclave on the processor. . . and ApplePay. Far better than Google Wallet. 2/3rds of Mobile Payments since ApplePay went hot on the 1st of December were done by ApplePay despite Google Wallet being in the wild for three years. means nothing in terms of usability.

And vast majority of reviewers gives the usability nod to iOS, not the confusion of Android's fragmented system and non-upgradability of the majority of Android devices where there is no guarantee that any particular app will run on your device or version of Android. . . and Android tablet apps are mostly blown up phone apps.

As a measure of usability, even though Android devices outnumber iOS devices by about six to one, the usage on the Internet is exactly the reverse, Six to one iOS to Android BECAUSE of USABILITY.

[Swordmaker]

Don’t mess with 4 year old men and their religion. He’s simply doing his part so that he’s accepted into iHeaven by Steve Jobs.

Ah, another couple of sufferers of MAPS.

Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new ICD-10 addenda:

90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projected Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.

[Swordmaker]

You confuse sales and usability (again, Hypnotoad). The fact Apple has bamboozled so many people for so long just means they package their religion better.

So, Apple is "Bamboozling" all those Korean buyers, are they? And all the people who have now bought ONE BILLION iOS devices? You'd think they'd get wise by now, wouldn't you? Or perhaps THEY know what they are doing and YOU, not really having every really used an Apple device, just don't know what you are blithering about.

[freedumb2003]

>> Or perhaps THEY know what they are doing and YOU, not really having every really used an Apple device, just don’t know what you are blithering about.<<

The Hypnotoad is strong with you.

And you should be cautious about assumptions. You may, as in this case, be wrong.

[freedumb2003]

The tantrums are coming full force now.

Pretty funny stuff.

Sort of like tossing a ham into a mosque.

[Swordmaker]

As I said, the iPhone 6s were already a generation old, CPU notwithstanding. What cracks me up is Apple said the Samsung 3 and Note 2 were TOO BIG. Until they had to play catch up.

Please prove your contention. . . show that Android phones had something in the iPhone 6 other than large screens such as Secure Enclave and a secure payment system that works as seamlessly as does ApplePay, or works as well as iTouch. or provides Continuity document continuation from iOS device to device to computers and vice-verse, how about quick replying to messages. . . or even something equivalent to iMessaging. Big screens are not and were not innovation.

You can denigrate the CPU all you want, but that CPU allows a lot more functionality the Androids cannot do. . . and the speed and ability to do more in less memory is crucial to what Apple does.

Android and Samsung came up with KNOX, their "secure" encryption system, but then it turned out their were hiding the KEY to KNOX in an insecure, unencrypted library on the phone. . . that anyone could find with an easy search! What a joke. . . while Apple is and has been using 256 bit AES encryption with a passcode entangled with the device's 128 bit UUID to give an extremely hard key that is then converted into a one-way hash that is then stored in the Secure Enclave on the processor chip. . . inaccessible to anyone.