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Apple's operating expenses for the last year was around $200bn.
by throwaway5792 6y ago
Apple's operating expenses for the last year was around $200bn.
- Judgmentality 6y agoThis a little misleading, as it's hard to imagine Apple making zero revenue well, ever. They could possibly be losing money, but there is no plausible scenario where they lose that much money. It's hard to imagine a scenario where they lose even an order of magnitude less money than that.
- scarface74 6y agoJust imagine the unlikely scenario that a pandemic shut down factories in China.....
- wmf 6y agoThat would probably also cut expenses. And if they got into a severe product shortage they could also turn off a lot of marketing.
- scarface74 6y agoWhat would they actually sell?
- wmf 6y agoDuring a severe supply shortage they would sell nothing but they would also have lower expenses so the loss would be manageable.
- lostlogin 6y agoServices revenue is something they appear to be pushing hard and it seems to do well financially.
- Alupis 6y agoOverpriced iCloud storage, for starters. Or their 30% cut from all the apps sold in the App Store. Even if they sold zero iPhones next year, there's still a lot of iPhones in the world that need services and apps.
- scarface74 6y agoApple charges less for iCloud storage than Dropbox.....
- Alupis 6y agoAnd a lot more than Google Drive or even the 1TB Office365 gives you along with all the apps you were actually paying for.
- scarface74 6y agoWell all of the equivalent iWork apps are free....
- stephenr 6y agoI don’t know if the pricing adjusts regionally but when I just checked for here, the google drive plans are exactly the same price as the iCloud plans, bar the bottom Google plan which is twice the price for twice the storage of the bottom iCloud plan. How exactly is that “a lot more”?
- AnthonyMouse 6y ago> What would they actually sell? iPhones produced in India, presumably. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Made-in-India-iPhone-11-goes-into-production-in-Chennai https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Made-in-India-iP... Or in any other place.
- akmarinov 6y agoOr iPhones produced in Brazil https://www.gizchina.com/2020/04/21/apple-plans-to-assemble-the-2020-iphone-se-in-brazil/ https://www.gizchina.com/2020/04/21/apple-plans-to-assemble-...
- NathanielLovin 6y agoApple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, purchases of books, movies, TV shows, music their 30% cut of App Store revenues and subscriptions; the $99 developer fee for the App Store; Final Cut and Logic; Apple Card interest fees, iCloud subscriptions, probably other smaller scale things.
- scarface74 6y agoThat’s less than 30% of their revenue. Right now, they can’t get new tv shows produced because of Covid.
- zepto 6y agoOr worse than Scarface’s example - everything they have in China gets permanently appropriated by the government, and they have to rebuild all the supply chains somewhere else.