Apple’s Financial Performance and Challenges: A Closer Look

Things are going very bad for Apple right now and it will probably get worse.

Erm… Things are still going too well for Apple at the moment.

Financial years 2021/2022/2023 generated a huge amount of turnover:
2018 => $266 billion
2019 => $260 billion
2020 => $275 billion
2021 => $366 billion
2022 => $394 billion
2023 => $383 billion

Apple’s fiscal year runs from the end of October 1 to September 30.

Do you see the huge jump in revenue during the pandemic, considering that Apple only accounted for half of that in fiscal 2020? Apple can sell half as many iPhones and only return to pre-pandemic sales. Expecting that (tech) companies that have done well during the pandemic and its aftermath can continue to maintain such a turnover level is madness imho.

In addition, this is not a lawsuit, but only in an investigation phase. It could turn into a lawsuit, but we’ll have to see about that first.

As for your hardware backdoor => that is a bug that has long been solved with software (July 2023). Seeing that as an intentional backdoor is pointless, when you see how many moving parts it has and how many departments should be involved in it, it is simply unrealistic without leaks. Here, take another tinfoil hat.

And ‘innovation’? There is plenty of ‘news’ in the new iPhones, especially in the more expensive Pro models, the question is whether you think that is important and how important you think it is. Does more megapixels mean more ‘speed’ of ‘innovation’? In the past 20 years, a smartphone is still a smartphone, you call with it and you can do computer stuff on it… It has just become more beautiful, more user-friendly, more powerful, etc., I don’t call that a revolution, I call that evolution.

Bron:
https://www.statista.com/…ales-of-apple-since-2004/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38606

2024-01-06 11:32:00
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