The truly amazing number from this Q3 results, is not that it has missed most analyst estimates (and that's what the tech press will focus on), but that it has

The truly amazing number from this Q3 results, is not that it has missed most analyst estimates (and that's what the tech press will focus on), but that it has generated $41.7bn of accumulated cash flow during the first 9 months. That's +54% jump from the previous year's 9 months accumulated cash flow ($27.1bn). That is record breaking, whatever the benchmark.