Posted on 01/28/2015 2:42:33 PM PST by Star Traveler
Apple delivered the greatest earnings report in history on Tuesday.
That's not hyperbole. Apple earned $18 billion in net income over the three-month period of October to December 2014. That's more than any other company has ever earned over a three-month span.
Apple earned those mind-melting profits thanks mostly to the iPhone, which is an incredible business.
Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones, up 46% from the year prior. The iPhone generated $51 billion in revenue, giving each iPhone an average selling price of $687.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
You are a Fanboy who thinks everything is good with every Apple product.
Pathetic.
You said it wasn’t sourced from Apple in Post #262, and I pointed out that the links do source it to Apple. It’s no more complicated than that.
The NCPPR claims that everything a company does has to be done to further the purpose of pursuing a clean profit motive. If they cannot justify that, it should not be being done. PERIOD. They have been shot down by most other companies as well as Apple. They are a single issue organization and they define what leads to profit for the stockholders. They offered a "stockholders proposal" to the annual meeting of Apple stockholders. . . and it was resoundingly defeated 97% to 3% by the vote of the stockholders not three hours before their representative, IIRC, it was the NCPPR president, tried an end run around the vote. Tim Cook shut him down and told him to take his investment ELSEWHERE if he did not like the way management was running the company.
Fightin Whitey, Apple has made it self evident that NCPPR's concerns that the Apple Board of Directors are doing something wrong and wasting stockholders' money is completely bogus. . . No other company in history has returned as much money to stockholders in as short a time as Apple has. That alone is proof that NCPPR is barking up the wrong tree to complain that stockholders' money is being wasted. Apple has returned over $175 BILLION in dividends and stock buybacks to investors in just the last three years. . . and still has $179 Billion in cash and short term liquid assets.
You're right. You knew the context, and intentionally took it out of context to be argumentative. It's just that simple.
As I said in that post, that you’re referring to ... I think iTunes is great! And obviously, with iTunes’ success, so do a lot of others. And that, along with all other services and products that Apple has ... is what has made Apple so WILDLY SUCCESSFUL ... as this article posted up above, talks about.
I provide you with the obvious sourcing that is in the article ... and you’re looking for some kind of “conspiracy theory” ... LOL ...
I should know better that to try to have an adult conversation with anybody that puts smiles and LOLs after every comment.
Just being friendly ...
My friends don't do that.
I don't either.........Consider this, there are still people living in this country who actually had to rely on a horse and buggy to get to town on Fridays to purchase their supplies.........
In court last winter, during discovery, Samsung was forced to reveal that their mix of phones was NOT what they claimed. . . and only 1/3 of their phones were what could be defined as "Smartphones," while another third were "Feature" phones—those capable of going on the Internet and receiving email, with built in apps, but not downloading additional apps, and the other third were at best not even up to that level, being phones that could not not connect to the internet, add any apps beyond those shipped on the phone, and were dumb phones targeted to the extreme low end of the market and 3rd world countries. This was revealed in detail after Samsung admitted in their quarterly report in November 2013 that Apple was selling more Smartphones THEN than Samsung.
Sorry to hear that.
It’s amazing, actually. Apple makes the market out of nothing, and Samsung is running around chasing Apple’s tail and pretending to be innovative and successful.
They realized how inane it looks, and basically outgrew it.
I think of my grandfather (dead now) ... who was from the horse and buggy days, before the days of flight and all the modern conveniences, and he lived to see men on the moon. What a lifetime he had!
I’m sorry to hear they grew so jaded.
You'll get over it.
But will they? ... :-) ...
Maybe, if senile dementia sets in and they revert to a second childhood.
We must stay young at heart ... let’s hope they do so, in a good way.
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