The only reasonable way to listen to this quarterly result is to learn how the many parts of the Apple business faired in the last quarter.
We need to keep in mind that nothing Apple reports is going to be easy to understand. This past quarter will reflect more than ever before the nonlinear nature of supply chain, pandemic, customer and business economic insecurity, Apple store closures, Apple online, work-at-home, back-to-school, health insecurity, global trade, global economic aggression. And, this non-linear nature will be even more apparent next quarter.
Before the pandemic and economic aggressions being the modus operandi, we could almost view Apple results as a simple sum of their various parts -- the feedback loops being stable and under control. That is not going to be true now or going forward.
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