Apple fourth quarter results

<blockquote><a href="#213274"><em>In reply to Brett_Barbier:</em></a></blockquote><p>How much over their low end guidance they went is irrelevant. The low end guidance was above what they actually achieved in the same quarter a year ago. </p><p><br></p><p>I think I see where the disconnect is in your conversation and it is around what Paul had said. I’m going to quote him from Oct 25th;</p><p>”Apple will likely sell fewer handsets in a launch quarter than it did the year before for the first time ever.”</p><p><br></p><p>That isn’t a matter of missing exactly how well the phone was doing, he’s saying the sales have gone down. He is also saying this after the quater had ended and Apple issued no warning. There is no reasonable way that Apple would have seen a year over year decline in iPhone sales and yet would have seen revenue go up by 2 billion. It simply doesn’t make sense. Especially since Paul had already (incorrectly) reported that Mac sales were down in the same quarter due to customers rejecting MacBook Pro (despite Paul’s claims Mac sales were up by double digits). I guess he thought both Mac and iPhone sales had tanked and somehow the iPad, Apple Watch and services were going to explode? That can’t be the case because he has declared the Apple Watch a failure (up by double digit growth) declared new to not be good enough to drive growth (again double digit growth).</p><p><br></p><p>You are free to disagree but there is no way that Paul’s claims can be squared with the facts. Apple’s minimum guidance was for growth year over year and there was no way for that to happen at the same time that the iPhone is tanking. </p>