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spheric said:

darkvader said:

racerhomie3 said:

Nothing short of amazing.

Amazing?  More like pitiful. 

We have these little things — we call them "phones", but they're really hand-held computers, and most people replace them every two or three years. Yeah, it's a little disconcerting, I know.  

What's truly disconcerting is that we've been convinced that we just have to discard perfectly useful devices every "two or three years" -- and that ending software support is one of the main causes. Maybe your attention spans are too short to remember the reviews when these devices were introduced five to seven years ago. They were described as breathtakingly fast with stunning graphics and remarkable power. They didn't get less powerful over the years; consumers have been trained to be permanently dissatisfied. Nice for my Apple shares; not so great for the resources new devices consume or the waste discarded devices generate (even with recycling programs).

radarthekat said:

macsince1988 said:

Apple did NOT earn $90.15B in fourth quarter of 2022.  That is their total revenue.  They earned $20.72B, for a profit margin of 22.99%.

If you have a business and you go out on a sales call to a prospect and you convince that prospect to become a customer, then you have earned that prospect's business.  There's more than one context in which the term earned can be used.  

Apple earned $90.15B in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2022, resulting in $20.72B of profits.  Both are true.  

No. Earnings are not about "earning" business. Earnings are profits. Revenues are sales. This is hardly a new concept, AppleInsider, but it's one you demonstrate every quarter that you don't understand. If you want to be regarded as a reliable source of information on Apple's finances, you must be accurate and precise with language. Once again, this quarter, that didn't happen. 

[A]nalysts from JP Morgan forecast revenue of $90 billion for Apple. This beats the present Wall Street consensus of $88.6 billion on the quarter. Apple earned $83.4 billion in its fiscal fourth quarter of 2021.

mknelson said:

Stupefy said:

“$1 billion euro”? Sure, euro has parity with USD today, but pick a currency! 

They did in the title and first paragraph, the Euro. It was a European case.

Or, are you picking on the lack of a currency description here: "It then fined Qualcomm 997 million ($991 million) for its behavior, citing antitrust rules."?

No, he's picking on the contradictory error in the headline, which, as of this posting, remains uncorrected. "$1 billion euro" is nonsense; pick a currency.

[I]t hasn't been tick-tock for about a decade where's there's innovation, then refinement, then back to innovation. It's been tick-tock-tock-tock more often.