sessamoid said:

jfc1138 said:

Yes that would have to be clarified wouldn't it because using the SpeedPass App isn't any more Apple Pay than when I use my Starbucks App. Still more secure than a card I suppose (less total money at risk?), but otherwise...

I refill my Starbucks account via ApplePay.

Yes but you (we) do not use Apple Pay to make any purchases at a Starbucks store, simply refill the card app. Purchases involve a scan of the displayed Starbucks card barcode, not NFC interaction via the Apple Pay system.

• ac1234 said:

jonl said:

Tim's "mother of all balance sheets" and talking at length about services may suggest the direction of future acquisitions.

Yes - the Mother of all Balance Sheets and no idea on how to use it to propel AAPL to levels well beyond where it was 3.25 years ago.  Listening to Cook lull us to sleep on the call makes me think of Toto pulling the curtain back on the Wizard of Oz - not much behind the curtain.

3.25 years ago? THIS "3.25 years ago"?

"

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

26.9 Million iPhones Sold; Record Fourth Quarter Revenue and Profit

Board Declares Quarterly Dividend of $2.65 per Common Share

CUPERTINO, California—October 25, 2012—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $36.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $28.3 billion and net profit of $6.6 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 40.0 percent compared to 40.3 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 60 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

The Company sold 26.9 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 58 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 14.0 million iPads during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.9 million Macs during the quarter, a 1 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 5.3 million iPods, a 19 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter."

ETA: I'd drop the title size from my cutandpaste off Apple's news release from back then but I don't know how....

By all reports they're about to have piled another 76.5 BILLION  dollars onto that "peak".....

Tall peak.

steviet02 said:

jfc1138 said:

Or my just tells the date and time Rolex. (Now THERE'S "clunky looking", far thicker than my Apple Watch for one).

But it's round, for some reason round watches get away with that much more than square. As far as the battery goes, you must not be getting a lot of notifications or doing any fitness stuff with it to have 60% left. Thats not the norm, for sure.

Are there linkable statistics from surveys on what remains of the battery under users everyday usage? That's one of those, like iPhone battery that I bet is all over the map in anecdoteville.

Granted today at work has been light so far: 3:59 of standby, 14 minutes of usage. Most days usage is a couple of hours... which parallels with 40% consumed given the stated battery life.... True: no fitness activity per se: just activity tracking as it does standard. I do bet that like the iPhone navigation would push power consumption.

gatorguy said:

jbdragon said:

Wait, I thought all these people were saying Apple sales were going to be disappointing. I'm a little confused. Now just before Apple's report, they're singing a different tune? Is this more stock manipulation?

It was never about the currently reporting quarter. It's the next one that been under the microscope. Some posters here just misunderstood it. 

Oh it was about the Holiday quarter right up until Cook projected that one was going to be a YoY gain (the entire "tough comparison meme). THEN the whiners shifted to March..... and they'll certainly rinse repeat were he to project gains YoY for that quarter....