Daring Fireball: Sharing the Stage

Post by cooldeal » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 1:05 AM UTC

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #18

recoiledsnake wrote: post #12

>Back in February, MG Siegler, among others, noted a remarkable milestone: >Last quarter, Microsoft brought in $20.89 billion in revenue. Apple brought in $46.33 billion. >Put another way: Apple’s iPhone business alone is larger than all of Microsoft’s businesses combined. That is because the OEMs sell the hardware for Microsoft. If you include the OEMs revenue, the math will be very different. It's that Apple moves…

“profit is a better metric to compare rather than revenue since it takes moving hardware out of the picture. Anyone have those details?” For the quarter that ended March 31: Microsoft, $5.11 billion [1] Apple, $11.6 billion [2] For the quarter that ended June 30: Microsoft, $0.19 billion [3] Apple, $8.8 billion [4] [1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/apr12/04-19fy... [2] http://www.apple.com/pr/library…

Post by saurik » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 1:35 AM UTC

cooldeal wrote: post #21

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #18

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“profit is a better metric to compare rather than revenue since it takes moving hardware out of the picture. Anyone have those details?” For the quarter that ended March 31: Microsoft, $5.11 billion [1] Apple, $11.6 billion [2] For the quarter that ended June 30: Microsoft, $0.19 billion [3] Apple, $8.8 billion [4] [1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/apr12/04-19fy... [2] http://www.apple.com/pr/library…

Anyone know how much of Apple's profit is from the iPhone(the original point of comparison in the article)?

Post by jamesaguilar » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 7:24 AM UTC

pyre wrote: post #15

jamesaguilar wrote: post #3

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But we also thought this was true before the iPod, and before the iPhone, and before the iPad . . .

Did anyone really go 'wow' for the iPad? It seemed like the next logical step. It's definitely a computing device in a form-factor that people have been wanting for a while.

Post by r00fus » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 6:31 PM UTC

pyre wrote: post #15

jamesaguilar wrote: post #3

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But we also thought this was true before the iPod, and before the iPhone, and before the iPad . . .

Did anyone really go 'wow' for the iPad? It seemed like the next logical step. It's definitely a computing device in a form-factor that people have been wanting for a while.