[Swordmaker]

Apple First Quarter Financial Conference Call notes in reverse order. Beats all except iPhone revenues. . . Profits beat year-over-year by 50% on lower revenues!—PING!

Apple Financial Call for 2019 First Quarter Ping!

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[palmer]

Surprising they had their best-ever quarter for Mac. They really need to create new computers although part of the problem is lack of new features from Intel

[lee martell]

Sometimes, your market has just been saturated, and nothing else is needed for a while. I’ve heard of certain iphones that were built guaranteed to break down after a short warranty expires. Maybe that’s how market saturation has been handled up to now.

[butlerweave]

Apple , take a bite but I have worms

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There are some amazing items in that list...

• Apple’s wearables business is approaching the size of a Fortune 200 company. Wearables, home and accessories GREW over $1.8 billion, thanks to amazing popularity of Apple Watch and AirPods. [POF - Remember at the launch not long ago so many people said Apple Watch was a loser, there was no use for it, and it was DOA?]
• Half of iPad buyers in Q119 were new to iPad and half of Mac buyers in Q119 were new to Mac [POF - staggering they are attracting that many new customers]
• ...paid subscriptions will cross 500 million mark in 2020. HALF A BILLION subscribers [POF - all I subscribe to is extra iCloud storage. Is this for music?]
• U.S. iPhone customer sat: 99% for iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max [POF - when did you ever hear of a satisfaction number like that? Never]

[Menehune56]

Ahem Apple, my mid2011 iMac is no longer OS upgradeable so I need a new one but I refuse to get one until you upgrade the iMac CPU. It’s been almost two years guys...

[adorno]

You must've been suffering a few heart-attacks in the last 2-3 months, when your mothership wasn't doing so hot.

"Apple shares jump after barely beating on earnings, and iPhone sales drop 15% from last year"

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/29/apple-q1-2019-earnings.html

Now that Apple had a little bit of good news, though barely, you needed to bring in your huge list of positives.

Apple reported earnings for its December quarter Tuesday that largely fell in line with expectations. But iPhone revenue came in just slightly below projections.

But, hey, Apple is still making a lot of money. I do hope they continue doing so, for a long time.

I have no problem with any company doing well. What I'm not crazy about is how some people seem to be too fanatical about their preferred team, in this case, a freaking company. Yuck! Get a life already!

[CurlyDave]

When Apple sells a product, they estimate value of free services (Maps, Siri) and that value has been reclassified under Services; cost to provide is also included in Services

They are moving revenue from devices into services in order to show growth in services.

In some ways this is reasonable, but it certainly looks like they are cheating just a little bit.