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Apple's Shares Rise On Better-Than-Expected iPhone Sales (fortune.com)
Apple reported a 7.2% rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, thanks to better-than-expected sales of its iPhones. "The company said iPhone sales rose 1.6% to 41.03 million in the third quarter ended July 1, above analysts' average estimate of 40.7 million units," reports Fortune. "Apple sold 40.4 million iPhones a year earlier." From the report: Apple's shares rose 4% in after-hours trading on Tuesday to $ 156.00.
Many customers wait for Apple to launch its new smartphones before deciding on upgrading or replacing their current devices, which usually results in iPhone demand tapering in the months before a release. The company forecast total revenue of between $49 billion and $52 billion for the current quarter, while analysts on average were expecting $49.21 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Analysts on average expect the company to sell 45.55 million iPhones in the current quarter, according to FactSet. Apple sold 45.51 million iPhones in the year-ago quarter.
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Colossians 2:8, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
The Word of God teaches that Satan is a liar of liars (John 8:44). The Bible reveals that Satan blinds men with philosophy, vain deceit, the traditions of men, and the rudiments (accepted principles) of the world. The Greek word for “rudiment” is stoykhion meaning “something orderly in arrangement,” i.e., a set of principles. Evolution is a commonly accepted rudiment in the world. That which was mere speculation at the beginning, dishonestly became fact at some point in secular education. Without having any proof at all, evolutionists now teach Evolution as fact and science.
There is a myriad of proofs against Evolution, but one of the most compelling is the existence of man's soul and spirit. Evolutionists speculate as to how biological life evolved from an alleged BIG BANG, but they have NEVER been able to explain how biological life became a living soul and spirit. Science cannot explain this unsearchable mystery.
In Pastor Max D. Younce's informative book, I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED!, he states:
When Does Life Begin?
Question: My friend and I have been discussing when the soul and spirit enter the body? Is there anything in the Bible that can help clarify this?
Answer: First, it must be recognized that a living individual, who starts at conception, is composed of body and spirit. (1 Thessalonians 5:23). There can be no life from the sperm and egg; unless the soul and spirit are present the moment conception produces a new life. The soul and spirit are the life of the body. James 2:26 tells us,
“For as the body WITHOUT THE SPIRIT is dead...”
The spirit is the seat of our intelligence and understanding (1 Corinthians 2:11). The soul is the seat of our emotions and appetites. For example: Our soul rejoices (Isaiah 61:10); our soul lusteth (Deuteronomy 12:15); the soul has desires (1 Samuel 2:16); it sorrows (Mark 14:34); it can hate (2 Samuel 5:8), and etc.
We never find where the soul and spirit are ever divided. At conception, when life begins, the soul and spirit develop; as they are connected with the body in the womb and on through after birth. God said in Genesis 2:7,
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
No doctor or neurologist has ever been able to find; or, observe the soul and spirit of an individual. They do know the different functions that the physical matter, called the brain, perform. What they do not know is how the soul and spirit controls the brain matter, as the brain is only dead tissue—unless the spirit of life is in the body.
In Psalm 139:14 we are told,
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:...”
Since,
“the body without the spirit is dead”
..it's apparently a really slow news day.
There were a few other interesting tidbits learned from the earnings call:
- after a long decline, ipad sales were significantly up at 15%, expected to rise more since the new ones were launched in june. Having replaced my early pleiocene ipad 2 with the new pro 10.5, I think that many will agree that it is an excellent tablet.
- Mac sales were up too
And more interestingly, looking at the future:
- Cook expects great success with ARKit.
- Cook informed that they have a big project ongoing in autonomous systems .
Once they start construction of all the transgender bathrooms in the new building.
How many of those "better than expected" iPhone sales were channel "presales" to MVNOs and the like? I smell a return of the Apple from the mid-90s when they were able for a few years to meet their growth and revenue targets by stuffing their retail channel.
It could just be oddly coincidental that I'm seeing so many "deals" on iPhones now for switching to this carrier or that, or just $150 prepaid for a new iPhone SE tied to boost or virgin when it retails for $400.
Perhaps sales haven't tapered off because old shiney does everything that consumers thing new shiney will deliver, so why wait?
to buy a 6S while they can still get a phone with a headphone jack. I just bought one today for that exact reason. Tried a 7, kept wanting to listen to music only to remember, wait, I don't have the adapter on me.
did they lay out how much of the sales were cheaper devices?
I know apple doesn't huff or puff about it too much, but a lot of what they are selling in asia(through operators, no less)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
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a lot of what they sell in asia are cheaper devices that are generation or 3(!) old.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
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From today's earning's call for Apple:
Appleâ(TM)s total cash and securities: $261.5 billion
Appleâ(TM)s total debt: $89.8 billion
Net cash position: $171.65 billion
While I'm not an advocate of those, transgender bathrooms would be lower in cost. Get rid of urinals, have all commodes isolated, and not have any gender specific features, and those would be simpler to make. I've not, however, seen one that allows for more than one person: Starbucks, for instance, just has gender neutral bathrooms to neatly sidestep the issue
1) People who's cars aren't brand new
Name a car sold in the last six years that didn't come with a USB port or bluetooth for audio.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Apple announced through unofficial leaks that IR face recognition would replace touch-ID and even floated a few models without touchID ability. This caused people who like the feature to upgrade from 5/6 series to 7 series phones keeping the iPhone sales flat. When the official announcement is made where TouchID is still present they will be disappointed but other fence sitters will fill in and boost iPhone sales. Smart hypothetical strategy.
- Tjp
I am in wallow with my inner money grubbing capitalistic pig. ... Oink!