“In the days following Apple’s record Q1 earnings announcements, Apple CEO Tim Cook and other top Apple executives held a Town Hall meeting at the Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino to reveal new announcements and take attendee questions,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac.
“Cook reportedly began his talk by putting Apple’s revenue announcements in context. He said that Apple sold enough iPhones in the holiday quarter (74.8 million units) to cover the populations of New York, London, Beijing, and Shanghai,” Gurman reports. “Cook also called the Apple Watch one of the ‘hottest’ holiday gifts, and he claimed that sales of the device exceeded those of the original iPhone in its first holiday quarter in 2007.”
“Cook also noted his excitement over future products coming out of the software, services, and hardware divisions, while teasing some ‘far-off’ hardware announcements coming beyond this year,” Gurman reports. “Cook said that Apple is using Apple Music on Android as a way of testing the waters for growing its services division through other platforms, opening up the door for more porting in the future.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Mmm, product pipeline.
In the palatial halls of the MacDailyNews headquarters, the words “product pipeline” are as highly affecting as “Cinnabon” or “beer.”
Apple should give the fragmandroid settlers iMessage capability, but make them have to code their own emoji in ASCII. You know, stuff like that. They love to tinker needlessly.
“Cook reportedly called the new campus a “gift” to the future of Apple employees”
Apple’s going to kick ass in a big way on all fronts.
No growth my ass!
iMessage and FaceTime on Android?
That is an avenue for growth, for sure.
@Felonious Mack
You’re about as much an expert on growth as Bernie Madoff is on ethics.
You sound silly trying to speak about the economics of business expansion, as it relates to equities. Read a book, not Wikipedia!
No, there’s no revenue stream for iMessage or FaceTime. If you want it, you’ve gotta ditch Android and get a real phone – Apple!
You missed off him introducing your mum, right before she heads off to a Bukake party
meeting more like:
there maybe layoffs.
hard to sell that many every quarter.
guys it’s about the stock price. you may want to buy more shares or a few iPhones, surely you need a pair and a spare. oh yeah no discounts, sorry.
APPL up, gaaglebit down. Ho hum.
Doomed. Doomed, I tell you. Doomed.
I don’t know what exactly T.C and gang said at the meeting, I just read the 9 – 5 link, but scanning the link it’s significant AGAIN that T.C didn’t talk Mac .
Mac is like the neglected red headed step child of T.C.
He keeps talking iPad, iPad, not too long ago he said ‘P.Cs were dead’ that he ONLY used the iPad and not PCs. Then when asked later by confused reporters if he was stopping Mac production he had to hastily said he meant Windows PCs (but I think again certain damage to Mac image was done … AGAIN ).
Apple has made a lot of iPad ads and talked iPads endlessly vs. hardly any Mac advertising at all YET we see from the last quarter MAC REVENUES NEARLY MATCHED IPADS ! (6.7 b vs 7 b) in spite of iPad having a hot new iPad Pro, and many ads over the years.
Imagine how many Macs MORE apple could have sold if it actually marketed Macs in the last few years especially with Windows 8 fiasco…
(there hasn’t been a serious Mac ad campaign since mac/PC guy: 66 different ads , one new Mac ad a month years ago ). not even cheap web ads.
Note also Macs profit wise is larger than Dell or Lenovo or Acer.
Besides no marketing, some Macs like the Mac Pro have been languishing. The Pro has 3 GB non upgradeable cards whilst PCs can get 12 GB cards now. recently a MDN Barefeats article showed how a 5 year old Mac Pro with upgraded card was TWICE as fast or more than a CURRENT Mac Pro (costing $4,000 base ) on GPU tasks ! None of the current macs have upgradeable video, many can’t even have RAM upgraded….
some segments of Mac Users like Mac 3D artists, people who need SOHO servers, people who want internal slots etc are struggling with Apple Mac neglect. (note it was loyal Pro artists who kept Apple alive in the 80s when everyone was moving to PCs and they deserve better). IBM today is doing more Mac marketing than Apple.
Also without a good mid tower option and with the Mac Mini crippled its very hard o get WINDOWs users who have MONITORS to SWITCH as they don’t want to ditch their monitors and get an iMac.
(note More market share beside more revenue also encourages more DEVELOPERS ).
T.C over the years has been a big iPad fan saying that he’s never seen such prospects for a device, but because of that he seems to have blinders over Mac prospects… (is he trying to fulfil his prophecy of PCs are dead by neglecting Macs one segment at a time starting with high end Pros ?)
Please people that the BIGGEST issue the stock is down is that big investors fear Apple is a ONE PRODUCT iPhone company and that the one product is vulnerable, so taking care of ALL Apple products is important especially one with such significant revenues as Mac.
We need one more Mac vs PC ad. Just one. Our two favorite guys come back on stage. They are both older. Wiser. An just befor PC opens his mouth, his head hangs down and he walks off stage. No dialogue in the entire commercial.
That would be funny.
You are right. Apple could be winning PC Wars 2.0 and has huge amount of marketshare to gain.
In the meantime, I am a pro user who cannot get a Mac Pro because it is simply unusable for high end GPU computing. No CUDA options, no way to run 4 GPU cards, no nVidia Tesla GPGPU options. Not sure what Apple was thinking.
A solution would be a super high speed bus for external PCIe GPU enclosures and getting nVidia to support Mac with drivers.
And MacBook Pro’s don’t even have a nVidia/CUDA option anymore, even though CUDA is by far the standard in engineering and scientific computing.
Until they solve this I am stuck with Windows. I thought I was going to be able to go completely non-Windows but Apple is bungling. Pain, pain.
yes, I feel your pain.
Many low end users don’t understand video cards are important and that they are different for different uses (gaming, 3D processing etc) .
High end PC video cards are larger than the entire processor section of a Macbook Pro (I have a MB Pro so I’m not dissing it but it’s limited). Most macs have integrated or at best MOBILE type GPU’s which are not workstation class.
2) why Apple can’t build a simple BOX for pro’s is hard to fantom as a ‘Mac Classic’ option (like they had for an iPod Classic for years) — they can still keep the cylinder for fashionistas . Just a box with upgradable components and slots and powerful subsystem — just lighter than the old Mac Pro. Cost them near nothing in R&D (Hackintosh users can do it in their basements ! ) and if it’s simple Apple can update the machine more regularly.
3) a mid tower priced between the mac mini and Mac Pro would also sell. One multi core Workstation processor, upgradable ram and GPU card, fast subsystem, maybe one extra slot….
After waiting for some kind of positive outcome from this TC lead “town hall” we are left to realize there is none. AAPL languishes still as does the once-great company. Actually, this “town hall” is probably more about some hidden fear that things are going South and it’s time for a motivational speech or something. TC has absolutely no ability to motivate and inspire. It’s not in him. He can’t do it and trying just makes it worse. The more we see of him the more it’s clear there’s just not much there. And I agree completely with the comments above that conclude that Apple is now basically a one-product company. A mobile phone company. With all the risks associated with such a blunder.
Not a word about the Mac.
get a clue Cook! MR Buyers’ Guide rates every Mac as STALE!!!!
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac