In a 2011 CNBC interview, Steve Wozniak reminisced about his early relationship with Steve Jobs, the first Apple computers and the company's bold Super Bowl ad in 1984, the year the revolutionary Macintosh computer was released. Apple's track record hasn't been all sunshine, Airpods, and iPhones (the company has sold well over a billion of the smartphones). In fact, even the company that revolutionized the personal computer industry with the Macintosh has had its share of failures over the years, from an overheating computer to a handheld device that co-founder Steve Jobs hated and comedy writers mocked.
UPDATE:earnings release excerpt: "Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High of $11.5 Billion ... [total] quarterly revenue of $58 billion, a decline of 5 percent from the year-ago quarter, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.46, down 10 percent. International sales accounted for 61 percent of the quarter’s revenue."
See also consolidated financial statements (pdf).
Chinese manufacturers now export 40 percent of their smartphones, nearly double the amount 3 years ago according to CLSA.com, and Huawei smartphone shipments to Europe increased by more than 50 percent in H1 2017, putting Huawei close to overtaking Apple as the world’s second-largest smartphone vendor.
Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE--Reality v. Hype--faster processor but connectivity problems, no Apple Music streaming now, battery drain with LTE, Siri unreliable--TheVerge.com review.
Watch the most important three minutes of the keynote speech from the Apple event held in San Francisco on September 9, 2015.
Apple's Updated iPhones: The Standout New Features - Om Malik, a True Ventures partner, Ben Bajarin, Creative Strategies' principal analyst, and Nikhil Bhogal, June's co-founder and a former Apple software engineer, discuss Apple's updated iPhones with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg West" on September 9th.
Replay of the Apple September 9th Event: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2015/
Apple stock closed down on the day of the iPhone6S Launch Event, Sep 9, 2015 (source: google.com)
What's with the Apple stock? Answers below: China's smartphone brands go downmarket - Fortune: "New and old brands are trying to copy the success of low-cost Xiaomi by selling cheap phones. The race to the bottom has begun in Chinese smartphones. When a Lenovo unit head tells the Wall Street Journal, “You can use someone else’s model to defeat them,” and he’s referring to the low-cost Xiaomi brand that prides itself on being an Apple imitator for half the price, you know almost everyone is jumping in." Apple’s Real Rival Isn’t Google - WSJ: "Although the first quarter of fiscal 2016 corresponds with the holiday shopping season, Apple may see its slowest year-over-year rise in iPhone unit sales ever. And if the analyst consensus estimate compiled by FactSet holds true, iPhone sales will enter terra incognita the following quarter by dropping for the first time compared with a year earlier." Check Apple stock price now: NASDAQ: AAPL See also on Domain Mondo:
