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> best of breed product company focused on a great user experience somehow i put them in the same category as LG, Samsung and Sony, albeit 100x better at what

by princeb 10y ago

> best of breed product company focused on a great user experience somehow i put them in the same category as LG, Samsung and Sony, albeit 100x better at what they do.

matt_wulfeck 10y ago
Apple's fastest growing revenue stream is services. It's already a 20 billion a year profit machine.
- jordan_litko 10y ago
  Can you give more information on this? I had no idea they had such a potent revenue stream in the services sector.
  - matt_wulfeck 10y ago
    When Apple reported Q3 earnings this year, Tim Cook said that the services revenue would be "the size of a Fortune 100 company by next year."[0] Revenue was ~6 billion in Q3, up 19% from a year prior. That comes out to roughly 20 billion a year. When I saw everyone playing Pokemon Go and buying coins and what have you, I thought of Apple taking a 30% cut of every transaction... The service revenue really is the strongest case for being a bull. Of course this is just my own personal opinion. I own the stock and I'm long on the prospects. I also love the products. Also so much cash! [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-services-q3-2016-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-services-q...
cybernytrix 10y ago
Apple has its own OS, compilers, IDE, 2+ languages, various frameworks etc. This is more than what Google, more importantly used a lot by people. But yeah it just a hardware company.
- mgoodness 10y ago
  Android, ChromeOS, Go, Dart
- seanp2k2 10y ago
  Yea but Samsung has Bada, Knox, Tizen (partially), JerryScript, Kies, etc
- bitmapbrother 10y ago
  Not really. Google has Android OS, Chrome OS, Brillo OS, Andromeda OS, Fuchsia OS, Android Studio, Go, Dart, Angular JS, etc...
cybernytrix 10y ago
Apple has its own OS, compilers, IDE, 2+ languages, various frameworks etc. This is more than what Google, more importantly used a lot by people. But yeah it just a hardware company.

by princeb 10y ago

> best of breed product company focused on a great user experience somehow i put them in the same category as LG, Samsung and Sony, albeit 100x better at what they do.

matt_wulfeck 10y ago

Apple's fastest growing revenue stream is services. It's already a 20 billion a year profit machine.

jordan_litko 10y ago
Can you give more information on this? I had no idea they had such a potent revenue stream in the services sector.
- matt_wulfeck 10y ago
  When Apple reported Q3 earnings this year, Tim Cook said that the services revenue would be "the size of a Fortune 100 company by next year."[0] Revenue was ~6 billion in Q3, up 19% from a year prior. That comes out to roughly 20 billion a year. When I saw everyone playing Pokemon Go and buying coins and what have you, I thought of Apple taking a 30% cut of every transaction... The service revenue really is the strongest case for being a bull. Of course this is just my own personal opinion. I own the stock and I'm long on the prospects. I also love the products. Also so much cash! [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-services-q3-2016-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-services-q...

cybernytrix 10y ago

Apple has its own OS, compilers, IDE, 2+ languages, various frameworks etc. This is more than what Google, more importantly used a lot by people. But yeah it just a hardware company.

mgoodness 10y ago
Android, ChromeOS, Go, Dart
seanp2k2 10y ago
Yea but Samsung has Bada, Knox, Tizen (partially), JerryScript, Kies, etc
bitmapbrother 10y ago
Not really. Google has Android OS, Chrome OS, Brillo OS, Andromeda OS, Fuchsia OS, Android Studio, Go, Dart, Angular JS, etc...

cybernytrix 10y ago

Apple has its own OS, compilers, IDE, 2+ languages, various frameworks etc. This is more than what Google, more importantly used a lot by people. But yeah it just a hardware company.