damn, they didn't destroy the competition by as wide a margin as expected...that's gonna hurt their stock price...

Can someone sum this up with an appropriate 3-panel comic strip?

skullkrusher: Praise the good Lord for put spreads. Covered my long stock real nice like

Shhhhhh.....You might get accused of being a one percenter. Of not deserving your gains.

So this is why they don't have to pay taxes, right? I guess that makes sense then.

A measly EPS of $9.32 for the quarter? Those farkin' losers.

"Wall Street expected Apple to ship 29 million iPhones during the June quarter and actual iPhone shipments came in at just 26 million units"

Only 26 million? Ouch!

Joce678: "Wall Street expected Apple to ship 29 million iPhones during the June quarter and actual iPhone shipments came in at just 26 million units"

Only 26 million? Ouch!

Those failure turtles. Apple is run by failure turtles.

Shares down 5% in after hours

Yeah, I'm sure they're hurting. Poor guys.

/What do you mean those sheep can't afford to buy a new $2000 laptop, $300 phone, and $600 tablet every year? That's just half a days salary!

Savian: Can someone sum this up with an appropriate 3-panel comic strip?

Is four okay?

So the Foxconn rebrander is mortal after all. (I'm posting this from my fondleslab.)

Good time to pick up AAPL shares.. Donno why everyone freaks on lower sales right before impending new iPhone releases

Weird, much bigger than Big Oil companies, sitting on over a hundred billion in cash, produces gimmicky toys nobody really needs, massive outsourcer....

Liberals love em.

Whack, wiggedy whack.

georgeyporgey: skullkrusher: Praise the good Lord for put spreads. Covered my long stock real nice like

Shhhhhh.....You might get accused of being a one percenter. Of not deserving your gains.

Or worse, a speculator.

Watch out Apple, there's a new player in town....

Uncle Ben's To Compete Against Apple With Brand-New Smartphone

FlashHarry: instantwin: [www.heise.de image 550x335]

i don't get it. what costs $99? apples new OS versions have been $29 for a few years now. or is this like the one-button mouse thing?

$29? That's way more than $0.

Wall Street analysts? Who are these guys? What purpose do they serve? Who cares what they think?

Goddamn is business analysis stupid. Shares are FALLING on the grounds that they made more than $8 billion dollars in three months.

ecmoRandomNumbers: I think it's going to be uglier next quarter. I'm selling about one iPhone for every dozen or so Android phones. The demand for the Samsung Galaxy SIII is amazing. The iPhone 5 is going to have to be something absolutely phenomenal for Apple to get their market back. This is for Verizon, mind you. AT&T's iPhone numbers are much higher, I'm sure.

I'm not worried. I hear the iPhone 5 comes with all iTunes updates for the next decade already installed and Siri flirts with you if you order delivery for five consecutive days. There's even rumors that some exclusive models will be available that will include a strand of Steve Jobs' hair that is shellacked into the case. It makes the shape of the Apple logo.

you mean they beat their own estimates, but didn't beat numbers made up by people who have no real insight into the company? that's a great reason to panic. sell everything.

Fuggin Bizzy: FlashHarry: instantwin: [www.heise.de image 550x335]

i don't get it. what costs $99? apples new OS versions have been $29 for a few years now. or is this like the one-button mouse thing?

$29? That's way more than $0.

the only updates that cost money are the .5 up grades. So going from 12.1 to 12.2 is free, but going from 12.0 to 12.5 costs money.

But i see you don't care about that.

FlashHarry: i don't get it. what costs $99? apples new OS versions have been $29 for a few years now. or is this like the one-button mouse thing?

mountain lion is priced at $19.99.

Joce678: "Wall Street expected Apple to ship 29 million iPhones during the June quarter and actual iPhone shipments came in at just 26 million units"

Only 26 million? Ouch!

When your fame and fortune comes from non-stop growth, ouch. Apple have been here before with the original Mac. Brilliant design, excellent interface, stop innovating, sales plateau, rivals get ahead, try to sue them away, fail, plummet in the market.

Down $30/share because they didn't meet expectations set out by investors who more or less assume what the company should actually make.

And we wonder why banks and investment firms are usually the beginning of our financial collapses.

shiate: you mean they beat their own estimates, but didn't beat numbers made up by people who have no real insight into the company? that's a great reason to panic. sell everything.

Unfortunately that's the way it works. Gets even stupider when you consider what they call the "whisper numbers".

FlashHarry: instantwin: [www.heise.de image 550x335]
i don't get it. what costs $99?
sprgrss:
the only updates that cost money are the .5 up grades.

Relax guys, or the foam will drop on your shiny toy.
It's just a joke for non-fanbois.

ecmoRandomNumbers: I think it's going to be uglier next quarter. I'm selling about one iPhone for every dozen or so Android phones. The demand for the Samsung Galaxy SIII is amazing. The iPhone 5 is going to have to be something absolutely phenomenal for Apple to get their market back. This is for Verizon, mind you. AT&T's iPhone numbers are much higher, I'm sure.

I hate Apple too, but "I have a very narrow range of experience with a small part of their revenue stream and admit another gigantic and possibly game-changing product release is right around the corner but still THEY'RE FARKED" doesn't seem like sound financial advice.

austin_millbarge: shiate: you mean they beat their own estimates, but didn't beat numbers made up by people who have no real insight into the company? that's a great reason to panic. sell everything.

Unfortunately that's the way it works. Gets even stupider when you consider what they call the "whisper numbers".

'Because they expected greater than expected numbers' is hard to wrap your head around.

Nem Wan: Wall Street analysts? Who are these guys? What purpose do they serve? Who cares what they think?

They're the advisors to the wealthy people (and more importantly pension and mutual funds) who own most of the large companies in America. Companies are valued by what it earn over say 10-30 years (Apple and other growing companies are at the longer end of that range, more predictable companies are at the shorter end of that range). Their collective forecasts for those earnings are valuable enough that the wealthy people basically price things at those expectations (until something like today means they will change). Big enough funds will have their own analysts, as well, but that's pretty expensive.

sprgrss: Fuggin Bizzy: FlashHarry: instantwin: [www.heise.de image 550x335]

i don't get it. what costs $99? apples new OS versions have been $29 for a few years now. or is this like the one-button mouse thing?

$29? That's way more than $0.

the only updates that cost money are the .5 up grades. So going from 12.1 to 12.2 is free, but going from 12.0 to 12.5 costs money.

But i see you don't care about that.
The thought is you are paying for a service pack which is free on Windows. I too have a mac. It is of my opinion and therefore I will concur that apple charges for a service pack and calls it a new OS and charges money for it.

mstang1988: sprgrss: Fuggin Bizzy: FlashHarry: instantwin: [www.heise.de image 550x335]

i don't get it. what costs $99? apples new OS versions have been $29 for a few years now. or is this like the one-button mouse thing?

$29? That's way more than $0.

the only updates that cost money are the .5 up grades. So going from 12.1 to 12.2 is free, but going from 12.0 to 12.5 costs money.

But i see you don't care about that.
The thought is you are paying for a service pack which is free on Windows. I too have a mac. It is of my opinion and therefore I will concur that apple charges for a service pack and calls it a new OS and charges money for it.

If you don't tell the apple associate what OS you're upgrading from you can go from just about any OS X versions to the new one with the $29 disc.

See? SEE!!?!

/I got nuthin...

LOL. these comments.
Apple haters gonna hate.
Apple could come out with a solid gold blowjob machine that converted semen to money and ran on nutsweat, and haters would still find something to hate about it.

ecmoRandomNumbers: I think it's going to be uglier next quarter. I'm selling about one iPhone for every dozen or so Android phones. The demand for the Samsung Galaxy SIII is amazing. The iPhone 5 is going to have to be something absolutely phenomenal for Apple to get their market back. This is for Verizon, mind you. AT&T's iPhone numbers are much higher, I'm sure.

AT&T: 3.7M iphones out of 5.1M smartphones (72%)
verizon: 2.7M iphones out of 5.6M smarthpones (48%)

is there any other single vendor that makes up that much of a percentage of sales? hint: don't say 'android', android is not a vendor.

ecmoRandomNumbers: I think it's going to be uglier next quarter. I'm selling about one iPhone for every dozen or so Android phones. The demand for the Samsung Galaxy SIII is amazing. The iPhone 5 is going to have to be something absolutely phenomenal for Apple to get their market back. This is for Verizon, mind you. AT&T's iPhone numbers are much higher, I'm sure.

They never lost their market to begin with. Their numbers have risen steadily since the first iPhone was unveiled.

And if you want to see ugly, wait til people have had time to realize what fragmentation fatigue is in the Android market. It will take a few years but just like people who realize they've been served a shiat sandwich with Windows for over 2 decades and moved to OSX, the Android fatigue will push people to the iPhone and iOS over time.

sprgrss: But i see you don't care about that.

CORRECT!

Have a cookie. You've earned it.

schattenteufel: LOL. these comments.
Apple haters gonna hate.
Apple could come out with a solid gold blowjob machine that converted semen to money and ran on nutsweat, and haters would still find something to hate about it.


People 'hate' on Apple and then a bunch of people get all bent out of shape about it. They get mad because someone insults a corporation. Now that's sad.

schattenteufel: LOL. these comments.
Apple haters gonna hate.
Apple could come out with a solid gold blowjob machine that converted semen to money and ran on nutsweat, and haters would still find something to hate about it.

Well, if the sumbiatch don't run on 4G, you're goddamn right! :)

austin_millbarge: And if you want to see ugly, wait til people have had time to realize what fragmentation fatigue is in the Android market. It will take a few years but just like people who realize they've been served a shiat sandwich with Windows for over 2 decades and moved to OSX, the Android fatigue will push people to the iPhone and iOS over time.

Meh, I've had both. I finally got the ICS update for my Galaxy SII. Some nice updates but it's not like I was pining for it for a year and I see no need to move to an SIII anytime soon.