Comments on: Apple – Apples and oranges https://www.radiofreemobile.com/apple-apples-and-oranges/ To entertain as well as inform Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: windsorr https://www.radiofreemobile.com/apple-apples-and-oranges/#comment-1433 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:54:51 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=4383#comment-1433 its not including the service revenue. Revenue from ecosystem monetisation and selling services like Netflix are very different things and I look at them seperately.

I would argue that Apple is doing better because it has better products but there are better competitors for almost every service that it offers. What it does very well is offer those services to users in an easy and fun to use way… thats what I think drives its success

]]> By: Colin https://www.radiofreemobile.com/apple-apples-and-oranges/#comment-1432 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:07:46 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=4383#comment-1432 That should have been 61.4Bn, not 61.4M. Getting lost in the zeros!

]]> By: Colin https://www.radiofreemobile.com/apple-apples-and-oranges/#comment-1431 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:04:09 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=4383#comment-1431 It would be interesting to see the data supporting a conclusion that the 51% figure is wrong because the Apple figures include service revenue.

Apple reported iPhone revenue of $61,576M and services revenue of $8,471M. Services revenue includes “Digital Content and Services, AppleCare, Apple Pay, licensing and other services.” The numbers are here:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q1_FY18_Data_Summary.pdf

Strategy Analytics used $61.4M for iPhone revenue. That suggests they haven’t included services revenue and the 51% is correct.

In any event, this isn’t a financial beauty competition for fanboys – Apple vs Android. Apple’s doing as well as it is because it has a better business model as well as better products and services.

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