Apple has reported record revenues for its Q1 to December, up 8.3 per cent from a year earlier to $123.9 billion (€111bn). Net profit rose 20 per cent to $34.6 billion, and the operating profit improved 24 percent to $41.5 billion. The supply constraints of previous quarters did not appear to harm Apple’s results this […]
Apple has become the first company to hit a stock market valuation of $3 trillion (€2.65tn) as markets opened in New Year. Its value slipped a little to end January 3rd’s trading session in New York at $2.99 trillion. Apple has been a big winner in the pandemic, as lockdowns saw spending on gadgets jump […]
Do you remember when Bill Gates was seen as the Darth Vader of world business, bullying others out of various sectors; operating systems, web browsers and more? And Apple and Steve Jobs were the ‘other guys’, the good guys, the little guys. Indeed, Jobs attracted cultish devotion in the same proportion that Gates attracted opprobrium. […]