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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

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20 pointspathik8 comments

So, the Gross Margin, the EPS, and the Operating Income pretty well match their previous record _holiday_ quarter.

They're doing pretty well in the same way that google has a lot of servers.

> Apple also sold 4.69 million iPads, a steep decline from the 7.33 million iPads the company sold during the fourth quarter, during the peak holiday sales season.

> However, Apple was not able to compare them with sales figures from a year ago, as the company had not yet established a full quarter's worth of results for the iPad.

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=263436,00.asp?h...

What makes this interesting? They did well this quarter and they are going to do ok next quarter. Intel's earnings report yesterday was much more surprising, but still not particularly notable to anyone who isn't following Intel.

Intel doesn't define how we will interact with computers in the future. They only enable companies like Apple or HTC (and so on) to do so.

Intel's results were very interesting but how Apple's products are doing might even be a bit more interesting for HN.

Apple sold every iPad 2 they could make. That's not newsworthy how?

Selling every iPad 2 they could make is interesting, but I didn't know that after reading this. I asked because I didn't know why Apple's quarterly earnings are a big deal, not because I didn't think they could be.

There were plenty of stories over the past few weeks about how Verizon getting the iPhone was not going to give a big boost to Apple, and Apple is stagnating in the face of the Android onslaught, and so on.

In light of that you don't find US iPhone sales being up 155% over same quarter last year interesting, and up 113% worldwide to be interesting?

I'd say Apple news is interesting in that:

a) it was a stereotypical tech startup, and Jobs is the consummate entrepreneur. Lots to learn from their history. b) they are the biggest tech company in the world c) they are still leading innovation in mobile, and that is an unavoidable market opportunity for tech/social startups and developers.

Apple is an interesting company but not all Apple news is interesting. Articles about the three points you mention have a lot of potential, but this is not related to any of them except Apple being big, which is somewhat interesting on its own but the reasons for its dominance would be more interesting. Sales, revenue, and profit are way up as expected and I think an analysis of the earnings report would have been interesting, but this press release doesn't provide that.

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