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Apple reports poor quarterly earnings, stocks tank. Beginning of the end?

I'm skeptical, apple is a giant, its going to take something more drastic to begin a decline.

I personally believe if apple were to die off, we'd be worse off. No competition / innovation wars. Ultimately we (the consumers) would loose.

Once again, personal opinion. :)
 
Granite1 said:
I'm skeptical, apple is a giant, its going to take something more drastic to begin a decline.

I personally believe if apple were to die off, we'd be worse off. No competition / innovation wars. Ultimately we (the consumers) would loose.

Once again, personal opinion. :)
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This.

We need Apple. As much as I hate to say it.
 
Nah, sales have slowed due to people holding out for iPhone 5, iPod 5 and iPad mini. Analysts are saying this and makes sense.
 
Everything has a finite limit, even the universe. Apple can only continue to make massive profits if their user base has the cash to buy their products and services. Still, conservatively, Apple could become near stagnant on development and still be in the market for decades provided they don't take unnecessary risks. The real test will be the iPhone and iPad that proceeds the ones we have this year. Then we'll know whether Tim Cook can take the helm as well as Steve or whether or not they are doomed to a slow death.
 
Please. Any other company would kill for those kinds of numbers. As soon as the next iWhatever comes out they'll be the darlings of Wall Street again. On a funny side note, Apple is changing their idiotic proprietary charger/dock port.
Throw all your iPhone accessories in the garbage, Apple
This should be fun.

After a friend ran over their charger cord with a vacuum recently, I found out that an iPhone charger costs $30! Just the 3 foot USB cord alone costs $20! No wonder their profit margins are so high. That's highway robbery.
 
rushmore said:
Nah, sales have slowed due to people holding out for iPhone 5, iPod 5 and iPad mini. Analysts are saying this and makes sense.
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Yeah, this is a common 2nd quarter (and 3rd quarter) occurance for them, their strongest is always the 4th quarter. But the analysts take that into account when estimating, and it still came in 3 million short. Like I said, I wouldn't read too much into it tho, consumers are freaked out right now.
 
thermal said:
Apple reported earnings of $35 Billion and profit of $8.8 Billion for the quarter today. Sales rose 24% and profit rose 21% compared to a year ago.

Gross margins increased to 42.8 percent. Apple's cash-in-hand increased to $117 Billion USD.

As a result of these very disappointing earnings, stocks fell over 6%.

Big iPad sales not enough to lift Apple past forecasts - Jul. 24, 2012

Is this the beginning of the end for Apple?
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How could anyone possibly think this is the beginning of the end of Apple? Huge earnings, huge profits, sales up, great margins, more cash-in-hand, and most importantly, the sales and profits are up year-over-year- by a large margin. Only reason stock dropped is because anylists expected even more, and they missed the goals set by someone sitting behind a desk on Wall Street. And looking at those numbers, I don't know what more people could reasonably expect. The stock will be back where it was in no time.
 
Certainly not the end for apple, they just need to change the way they do things.

A smartphone is a smartphone is a smartphone. Just different flavours of each. I sit here in bemusement over the fanboy trollings & I think, why? It's not the devices fault, it's the marketing! I wouldn't go telling one religious group that they're wrong for believing what they do, I would just 'be there'. If people want it, they will go get it.

Today I noticed another apple TV ad with a different male voice. But still with the patronising tone "oooh you don't have an iphone" or, "if it doesn't do this, then it's not an iphone". Please apple, don't insult our inteligence, we chose android for a reason.
 
New Apple ads make Mac owners look inept, foolish | Digital Trends

I've always subscribed to the theory of healthy competition being good for the consumer as it tends to drive innovation up.

But the battle now is being fought in the courts - the more Apple wins there, the more they prove to themselves that they don't innovation to succeed.

And this just in, maybe the SGS3 isn't the best possible Android phone right now. With HTC and Motorola and aiming at Samsung's market share, and Samsung saber-rattling that they'll drop Android whenever they don't get their way with Google (yeah, sure, that's so believable :rolleyes: ) - it seems that we already have a full field of competitors trying to innovate, one against the other, without any contribution there from Apple whatsoever.

Meanwhile, Android is still pretending that they know what consumers want in a tablet (they don't), and The Goog still thinks Google TV is a high-school science project.

Couple years of Android "innovation" in both of those areas have failed to teach them what the rest of us know as phone users.

In other news, when I think of all of the McDonald's hamburgers I haven't eaten this year and of all the ones that I can guarantee for a fact that I won't be eating, it's obvious to me that this may be curtains for Mickey D's!!! :eek:

Yeah. No.
 
I saw that ad. It looked more like a tongue in cheek poke at Samsung than a computer ad. The PC/Mac ones were at least funny!

Except for one scanner, I found Ubuntu just as plug and play as any Apple computer.

No one company could make a product to satisfy everyone. I really don't care which product is rated the "best" as long as I can customize it in my own way without too much hassle.
 
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