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Apple continues to add to its war chest, sells record numbers of iPhones

It's beginning to become a broken record when reporting on Apple's quarterly earnings, but the boys from Cupertino have done it again. Apple today announced its earnings for fiscal Q1 2012 and the results are as usual very impressive.
 
The company reported net profit of $13.06 billion on revenue of $46.33 billion ($13.87 per diluted share). Profit for fiscal Q1 2012 was more than double that of fiscal Q1 2011, while gross margins came in at 44.7 percent compared to 38.5 percent a year ago.
 
“We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook. “Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and we have some amazing new products in the pipeline.”

 
As for product sales numbers, Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones during the quarter (a 128 percent increase) and 15.43 million iPads (a 111 percent increase). The company's Mac sales also saw an increase, but "only" saw a 24 percent increase year-over-year to 5.2 million units.
 
Apple iPods, however, continue their downward spiral in this age of digital convergence. Sales of the portable music players were down 21 percent to 15.4 million units.

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RE: Apple are doomed :)
By TakinYourPoints on 1/24/2012 11:37:34 PM , Rating: 2
PC enthusiast I totally understand and am 100% behind, but Android enthusiast baffles me.

You pay as much for a high end iPhone with Android but get slower hardware, weak developer support and app selection, and in most cases you're stuck in a two year contract with a phone that will either get updated OS versions six months late, or not at all (hi Samsung). Carriers love Android because it forces hardware turnover to get new hardware, disgusting. With tablets it's even worse, the best hardware with the Tegra 3 is slower than the nearly year-old A5 in the iPad 2, and developer support for tablets is almost non-existent there.

I like getting good hardware with lots of great applications so I can actually use it. I get that with Windows and OS X, and with mobile devices I get it with iOS. Dismissing a platform simply because Apple makes it while ignoring the overwhelming positives that it has is very strange to me.


RE: Apple are doomed :)
By sprockkets on 1/25/2012 12:09:54 AM , Rating: 3
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You pay as much for a high end iPhone with Android but get slower hardware


Or I also get a bigger screen to see stuff with, and most phones had better hardware before the iphone4s took it's time to come out but continue

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weak developer support and app selection,


I've found every app I've needed. Graphing calc, yes. Video app? Yes. Major bank apps, yes. Book apps from the usual people, yes. Hell, what is it about 550k vs what 400k apps or whatever on android that makes you think iOS is so much better?

Btw, why don't you check the app store for a bittorrent app. Oh, you can't find one? Why?

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and in most cases you're stuck in a two year contract with a phone that will either get updated OS versions six months late, or not at all (hi Samsung).


True, but that's what happens when stuff like ICS gets released to others back in Nov and not with apple that has both hardware and software ready to go.

Guess what? The vast majority of people who have android phones don't even know what ICS is or know what they are missing.

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Carriers love Android because it forces hardware turnover to get new hardware, disgusting.


That means what? Are you butt hurt cause you had to wait 15 months for a new model while apple sat down and fixed what was wrong with the iphone4's antenna and figured out how to paint it white?

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With tablets it's even worse, the best hardware with the Tegra 3 is slower than the nearly year-old A5 in the iPad 2, and developer support for tablets is almost non-existent there.


There you go again claiming "slower" as in some bull sht benchmark that no one cares about. Which, in any case, the T3 wins under browser benchmarks but losses in the FPS, so Fing what? 80FPS vs 120, guess what, that's not noticeable.

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developer support for tablets is almost non-existent there.


It isn't 2010 anymore.

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I like getting good hardware with lots of great applications so I can actually use it. I get that with Windows and OS X, and with mobile devices I get it with iOS. Dismissing a platform simply because Apple makes it while ignoring the overwhelming positives that it has is very strange to me.


You've pretty much repeated the same BS talking points every time you post. Oh wait, it's in your name.

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PC enthusiast I totally understand and am 100% behind


You're not.


RE: Apple are doomed :)
By TakinYourPoints on 1/25/2012 12:43:51 AM , Rating: 2
The majority of your post is denial, particularly when it comes to app selection. Android development has stalled over the last year and has completely flatlined on tablets while it continues to accelerate on iOS. Here are some hard statistics: http://blog.flurry.com/bid/79061/App-Developers-Be...

Another interesting statistic: Crossplatform mobile developers make $0.24 on Android for every dollar they make on iOS. This is before we get into issues of OS, marketplace, and hardware fragmentation.

Neither are problems with iOS or WP7, and it's why the person I know who hates Android the most works for a major mobile developer. The Android platform is a headache given the return.

Microsoft, the largest software company in the world, has nearly two dozen full featured applications for iOS. In just the last month they released Skydrive and an official XBox Live application for iOS. Microsoft Office for iPad will be out this year. The best you can get from them for Android are simple front ends for Bing and MSN.

As for your defense of Tegra 3, neck-in-neck with or slower than a tablet that is almost a year old is not impressive. The iPad 3 is only months away. Android hardware needs a multi-generational leap in performance if it wants to catch up.

Then there of course is the issue of having applications that actually take advantage of this faster hardware, but we already addressed that above. One more hurdle.

The platform just doesn't present a good value, not unless they're $200 like the Kindle Fire. I also understand wanting a larger screen or keyboard in a phone, but for me personally it isn't worth the tradeoff in performance, developer support, and manufacturer support with updates.

Me:
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PC enthusiast I totally understand and am 100% behind


You:
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You're not.


Haha, you think that just because I believe Android is a second rate platform? Ok, cool bro.

Off to play more of the DOTA 2 beta with some friends. Bye.

- Posted from my self-assembled Windows 7 i7 desktop with 256GB SSD and SLI video.


RE: Apple are doomed :)
By Just Tom on 1/25/2012 5:49:30 AM , Rating: 2
Apps using Flurry are not the only apps for either platform. All your link shows is a the mix of iOS vs. Android apps using Flurry. It might be indicative of something but without further evidence really proves nothing.


RE: Apple are doomed :)
By sprockkets on 1/25/2012 8:36:05 AM , Rating: 3
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The majority of your post is denial, particularly when it comes to app selection. Android development has stalled over the last year and has completely flatlined on tablets while it continues to accelerate on iOS. Here are some hard statistics: http://blog.flurry.com/bid/79061/App-Developers-Be...


And that means what when it comes to finding what I need in their 350k+ selection? Absolutely nothing.

There's a world outside flurry you know.

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Another interesting statistic: Crossplatform mobile developers make $0.24 on Android for every dollar they make on iOS. This is before we get into issues of OS, marketplace, and hardware fragmentation.

Neither are problems with iOS or WP7, and it's why the person I know who hates Android the most works for a major mobile developer. The Android platform is a headache given the return.


Which still has nothing to do with me. But if you must know, Google has addressed this by making it easier to spend money on the market by adding a cc.

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Microsoft, the largest software company in the world, has nearly two dozen full featured applications for iOS. In just the last month they released Skydrive and an official XBox Live application for iOS. Microsoft Office for iPad will be out this year. The best you can get from them for Android are simple front ends for Bing and MSN.


And since I don't own an xbox I could care less, not withstanding the Xbox and their ecosystem is getting worse all the time, like killing 1080p support for user files.

Oh, I can't get the cable tv app for android. Now I'm all sad.

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Then there of course is the issue of having applications that actually take advantage of this faster hardware, but we already addressed that above. One more hurdle.

The platform just doesn't present a good value, not unless they're $200 like the Kindle Fire. I also understand wanting a larger screen or keyboard in a phone, but for me personally it isn't worth the tradeoff in performance, developer support, and manufacturer support with updates.


Yes, you can have an opinion, no issue there.

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Haha, you think that just because I believe Android is a second rate platform? Ok, cool bro.

Off to play more of the DOTA 2 beta with some friends. Bye.

- Posted from my self-assembled Windows 7 i7 desktop with 256GB SSD and SLI video.


Well if you enjoy doing that as I do I enjoy it also on my phone.

There's a set of developers Android has that iOS and WP7 never will, ones that actually work on the OS itself. Can't do that without source code.


RE: Apple are doomed :)
By nafhan on 1/25/2012 2:47:53 PM , Rating: 2
It's not that different. I think of PC enthusiasts as those who like to have control over their platforms. Android's really the only mobile platform (other than jailbroken iOS) where that's a possibility. Maybe "PC enthusiast" = gamer, to you? In addition to the control I over my device, I like being able to pick from a number of providers for various services, and being able to natively run Linux commands directly on my phone or via ssh - among other things.

Sort of unrelated to the above, but the Tegra 3 is generally a little faster than the A5. It falls behind in areas heavily dependent upon 3D graphics hardware (i.e. games), and that's about it. I DO think having four cores was a poor decision on Nvidia's part that may have been driven by marketing. I would have liked to see: fast dual (specifically fast, dual A15's with a slow companion core), a faster GPU, and dual memory channels. I think that probably would have done a much better job handling most tablet/smartphone workloads than a quad A9 does.


RE: Apple are doomed :)
By TakinYourPoints on 1/26/2012 2:25:12 AM , Rating: 2
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Maybe "PC enthusiast" = gamer, to you?


I thought about this and you're right. I've always tinkered with my PCs, but it was a means to an end, not the main point. Back when I was editing config and batch files on my 486 in order to better optimize running Wing Commander 2, it wasn't because I loved editing those files, it was because I wanted to play the game. When I build my PCs it isn't because I love assembling them (although the Corsair 800D did make its initial build enjoyable since it was so well designed), it's because it is an affordable way to play the games I like on a big 2560x1440 display.

The end action is what I value the most, the hardware is secondary except that I want it to output smoothly, and I like good physical input and physical design (IPS displays, mechanical keyboards, plasma HDTV in my living room, etc etc).

My PC gaming is mostly done from two walled-garden services, Steam and Battlenet. I accept the lack of control due to the good service that I get (automatic patching, integrated friends and matchmaking, etc). The same goes to a lesser degree with the XBox 360. I'm not much of a console gamer but I love having certain XBLA games like Super Puzzle Fighter II. It definitely applies to the Amazon Kindle. They have the most restrictive DRM of any service I've used, including any of Apple's, but again I accept it because their e-book readers are excellent and they provide great service with their cloud syncing (executed perfectly even back in 2007).

This is why I have no philosophical issues with the iDevices, if I did it would be quite hypocritical given how I accept it on other platforms. All I care about is fast hardware and the best apps, both of which iOS currently has. "Open" and "choice" doesn't matter to me if the end result is limited speed or practical utility, that's all. If a "closed" system gives me the best end results and practical experience, I'll go for that instead.

As for the Tegra 3, all of the benchmarks I've seen on Anandtech peg it around the A5 in web benchmarks and far behind in graphics. The reason this matters even if it is close in the end is because it is competing with a part that is almost a year old. There will be much catch-up to be done in a few months when the A6 drops.

And btw, you can SSH with an iPhone or iPad as well. :)


RE: Apple are doomed :)
By nafhan on 1/26/2012 8:45:07 AM , Rating: 2
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you can SSH with an iPhone or iPad as well
Interesting... can you get INTO the iPhone via SSH without rooting (i.e. is there an SSH daemon that you can run on a non-rooted iPhone)? I was under the impression that required rooting.


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