Apple just made $18 billion in 90 days, more than 435 firms in the S&P 500 in total

INVESTMENT WATCH BLOG ^ | Worker Ant #11

[Ultra Sonic 007]

When you can SELL your old iPhone for more than the cost of the subsidized new contract iPhone model, it doesn't really matter, now does it?

Depends on the contract that comes with it.

Ergo, my iPhone 5, cost me $20 for two years use, plus my contract payments.

And how much were your contract payments?

[Swordmaker]

Historic profits, but the irony will be lost on the Apple-worshiping libtards. Better margins than the oil industry by far, by the irony will be lost on the Apple-worshiping libtards. Appalling work conditions for the Chinese workers of Foxconn, but the irony will be lost on the Apple-worshiping libtards. The strictest corporate “censorship” of software on their platforms, but the irony will be lost on the Apple-worshiping libtards. A product that strives to put itself into obsolescence so you want to replace it well before it’s practical lifespan, but the irony will be lost on the Apple-worshiping libtards.

What a load of mis-information. Yes, the margins are excellent. . . but Apple does not get to take advantage of special tax breaks the oil industry gets. Nor do we insult you as you did in every sentence you wrote. Work conditions are far better for the workers at FoxConn than they would be out in the fields. . . and they are NOT what the activist China Labor Watch misrepresents by using photos from other factories and claiming they come from FoxConn, or Mike Daisey's fraud that got pulled from NPR for fakery. And that "Strict censorship" on their platforms keeps the iOS platform completely MALWARE free, while your so called open platform has over one million malware available for it. And what you claim is a product that "strives for obsolescence" has a reputation of lasting far longer than the competition and having a far longer useful life span in ALL of its product lines. I finally retired my 7 1/2 year old original iPhone that has been handed down through family members as a phone last MAY, but it is still being USED as an iPod by my 3 year old granddaughter. . . on its original battery! Obsolescence? My rear end! My iMac that i use is SIX years old and is running the latest operating system. . . and can run OS X, UNIX, Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 8.1, two versions of Linux, and several other Operating Systems including MS-DOS 3.6, THEOS, Amiga-DOS, and more. . . in virtual machines. I've run SEVEN of those OSes simultaneously. Can you do that on your machine? Doubt it. So, now I will insult you, but you've earned it and it is true.

I submit you are an ignoramus about Apple products.

[Swordmaker]

And how much were your contract payments?

Considering I have three iPhones and two iPads on the contract for my family, not bad.

[bolobaby]

All hail Apple!

Do you use your love of their products to find common ground to talk with grungy hippies?

[lavaroise]

Iphone6+ costs about $700, like a laptop, no thank you

[Crusher138]

How much money do you wager you'd have saved over 2 years if you bought the phone outright and shopped around for your data plan?

My business is on a grandfathered in plan. We pool 1750 talk minutes (cell to any cell is free) and have unlimited text and data. Each line that I add is $29.95 per month. I don't know of any better plan.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

(Ignoring the fact that paying that much money for a phone is certifiably insane...)

In the long run (depending on your needs; I'm aware that you can get group discounts for contract plans), purchasing an unlocked phone upfront and going by a prepaid plan (especially from a MVNO) saves you more money over those two years.

Onto the thread topic itself...

These sales are all driven by the iPhone. When you miss expectations on your other products, can you really be said to be sitting pretty?

[jwalsh07]

Slave labor is good for the bottom line.

[lavaroise]

Lol, the sim free 126 gb version of iphone6+ large screen is $949! Base line is 750!

http://store.apple.com/us/buy-iphone/iphone6/5.5-inch-display-128gb-gold-unlocked