{"id":3065,"date":"2026-08-03T03:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:37:47","slug":"apple-earnings-show-strong-ipad-and-mac-sales-cant-make-up-for-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=3065","title":{"rendered":"Apple earnings show strong iPad and Mac sales can\u2019t make up for the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced its fourth-quarter earnings today after the bell, and it was something of a strange quarter because, unlike some previous years (including last year), this quarter&#8217;s numbers did not include an iPhone launch. The iPhone 12&#8217;s various models ship in October and November instead of September this year.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Tim Cook proudly announced double-digit YOY growth in all product categories besides iPhone on the call, but the iPhone is important: Apple&#8217;s total revenue was up only 1 percent year over year, with iPhone revenue down almost 21 percent.<\/p>\n<p>While the iPhone didn&#8217;t help push up the bottom line, Apple did launch other products during the period, including the redesigned <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2020\/09\/the-new-ipad-air-goes-all-screen-adds-magic-keyboard-support\/\">iPad Air<\/a> and two Apple Watches: the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2020\/09\/the-apple-watch-series-6-adds-blood-oxygen-monitoring-and-more\/\">Apple Watch Series 6<\/a> and the Apple Watch SE. iPad revenue was up a substantial 46 percent YOY (it totaled $6.8 billion), and Mac revenue was also strong at $9 billion, or 28-percent more than the same quarter last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2020\/10\/apple-earnings-show-strong-ipad-and-mac-sales-cant-make-up-for-the-iphone\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2020\/10\/apple-earnings-show-strong-ipad-and-mac-sales-cant-make-up-for-the-iphone\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2020\/10\/apple-earnings-show-strong-ipad-and-mac-sales-cant-make-up-for-the-iphone\/' target='_blank'>Read the original article on arstechnica.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced its fourth-quarter earnings today after the bell, and it was something of a strange quarter because, unlike some previous years (including last year), this quarter&#8217;s numbers did not include an iPhone launch. The iPhone 12&#8217;s various models ship in October and November instead of September this year. CEO Tim Cook proudly announced double-digit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[13,28,34],"class_list":["post-3065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share-suggestions","category-technology","tag-impact-aapl","tag-signal-buy","tag-stage-stage-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}