Apple Reports First Quarter Results

Post by pedrosorio » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 12:14 AM UTC

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #107

thewarrior wrote: post #70

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Sure and that slows GDP growth by 40-50%. They’re still growing by a lot. It just moves the date by a few years. Demographic doom is frequently cited for China but I rarely hear about the doom of Europe which has worse demographics. Demographics can be topped up using immigration. Without immigration the US would also be in demographic decline.

> They’re still growing by a lot. It just moves the date by a few years. The problem is that their average age moves up, and productivity decreases as people hit or near retirement. Unless China starts opening up to immigration (not impossible), they are going to be Japan without being rich yet. > I rarely hear about the doom of Europe which has worse demographics. Europe has immigration. China does not. If China is…

Post by mdoms » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 12:16 AM UTC

klelatti wrote: post #48

Apple is the ‘Personal IBM’: a premium systems integrator where ‘you never blame yourself for buying Apple’ in the era when everyone has a handheld computer. Edit - just to add that IBM dominated computing for a long time with this model. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Apple has become so big in what is a much bigger market.

Post by GeekyBear » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 12:19 AM UTC

avalys wrote: post #47

supernova87a wrote: post #42

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Is this just a knee-jerk thing to say because it seems like it must be true, and it's fashionable to take an alarmist position about any big company? Is there any critical thought behind such a statement? Apple has not (in my recollection) sought to exert control over content of what is being said or shared among users. In fact, they seem to keep quite a distance from wanting to know or be responsible for that. And y…

Well, they decided all of their phones are going to analyze your locally-stored photographs for child photography, and upload questionable photos to the cloud for human review... They also block apps that involve politically controversial content, or content that they disagree with (e.g. pornography).

Post by newaccount2021 » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 12:21 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #7

Finally some good news in this bloodbath of a market

Post by malshe » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 12:22 AM UTC

lukewrites wrote: post #20

r0fl wrote: post #3

Services, which include iCloud, Apple Music, search licensing and App Store fees, continued growing strongly, rising 25% annually to $19.52 billion. Keeps blowing my mind how consistently services keep growing. Highest margins too. Just printing money!

I feel like I get great value for my Apple One Premier subscription. I already was paying for the largest available iCloud storage. Paying a bit more and being able to host email addresses for private domains, plus having iCloud Private Relay, plus a music service (and my library in the cloud), plus Apple TV+, plus Fitness (use it occasionally but would never pay for it on its own) is a no-brainer for me.