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Apple Reports First Quarter Results

by Bahamut on 1/27/22, 9:31 PM with 206 comments

  • by Eric_WVGG on 1/27/22, 10:48 PM

    25.1% Mac growth. For professionals and enthusiasts, you either just got your M1, you’re saving for one, or waiting on the Pro Desktops.

    I’m curious to see if there’s any change to the replacement rate of Macs. It seems normal for people to use the same laptop for four or more years — a far sight longer than the two-year life expectancy of laptops twenty years ago, but about half of the replacement rate of smartphones.

    There's one benefit of these DIY designs that seems under-reported: Apple can now develop stuff like the "neural engine". Chips that aren't just faster or more efficient than Intel offerings, but also do different things.

    I think there's almost no chance that I'll be upgrading to an M2 Pro next year or the following, but there's every possibility that the M3 Pro won't just be a faster Apple Silicon chip. If future Macbooks are more than just "the same thing but faster," dorks like me will be retiring our computers a lot faster.

  • by bigtones on 1/27/22, 10:07 PM

    Their huge China derived revenue is an increasing problem for Apple from a company stance perspective. They have to increasingly walk a tightrope between servicing that market, kowtowing to the Chinese government, and upholding the values of a California based US Company.

  • by r0fl on 1/27/22, 9:50 PM

    Services, which include iCloud, Apple Music, search licensing and App Store fees, continued growing strongly, rising 25% annually to $19.52 billion.

    Keeps blowing my mind how consistently services keep growing. Highest margins too. Just printing money!

  • by klelatti on 1/27/22, 10:17 PM

    Apple is the ‘Personal IBM’: a premium systems integrator where ‘you never blame yourself for buying Apple’ in the era when everyone has a handheld computer.

    Edit - just to add that IBM dominated computing for a long time with this model. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Apple has become so big in what is a much bigger market.

  • by lvl100 on 1/27/22, 10:11 PM

    Man, I wish Steve Jobs were alive to witness the total domination. I imagine he knew but perhaps not to this extent.

  • by paxys on 1/27/22, 9:55 PM

    Finally some good news in this bloodbath of a market

  • by mensetmanusman on 1/27/22, 9:56 PM

    As Apple continues to dominate, we can’t forget that the iPhone is approaching >90% utilization by the youth: https://www.howtogeek.com/778355/new-study-says-87-of-us-tee...

    This means we will soon enough have a situation where a corporation controls the primary medium of communication of the citizens. At this point a smart society would consider how to regulate this situation to safely prevent domination abuse, but I doubt it will happen.

  • by ericmay on 1/27/22, 10:09 PM

    Quarter after quarter Tim Cook just mic drops these earnings.

    Remember all the “Apple is doomed, Tim is a bean counter” comments when Jobs handed over the reigns?

    Yea. Ok.

  • by carlycue on 1/27/22, 9:49 PM

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