Despite dire prognostications from financial mavens who warned that Apple’s glory days are gone, the company turned in a staggering 94 percent profit rise for its quarter, amounting to revenues of $36.8 billion and profits of $11.6 billion for its second quarter.
The results caused its share price to soar by over $40 to rest at $600.83 in after shares trading. Apple’s gross margin for the quarter was 47.4 percent, up from 41.4 percent in the same quarter last year.
The results were fuelled by Apple managing to shift 35 million iPhones in the quarter, sales of the smartphone accounting for close to 60 percent of Apple’s total sales. China was a key area for growth. The company also reported that sales of its new iPad were also strong in the quarter.
Tim Cook, Steve Jobs’ successor, said that it sold 12 million iPads in the quarter. He promised that this year will bring additional new products – a new version of the iPhone is expected this September.
Apple sold four million Macs during the quarter, up seven percent compared to the same quarter last year.
The next quarter is likely to generate $34 billion, according to the company’s chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer.
Unbeknownst to almost all, and this is where the hocus-pocus of Religion & Religiosity has a commanding influence, to be possessed/mesmerised is not some "outta this world" zombie-like happening, it is as easy a changing one's behaviour - like being peaceful one moment and then becoming angry because of some silly little comment or reacting to some unexpected change. Just like when some CEO discovered that his secret tryst with his girlfriend/boyfriend will be disrupted because some minion has decided to call an emergency meeting to discuss about "confounding the pundits". Or starting a riot because one's perceived communion with one's saviour has been ruined "because they ran out of stock", the pour thangs. The stuff one sees at "funny hypnotic events" is not so funny for the "hypnotists" if only because they have frittered-away, in advance, their family heirloom for generations to come.
If the above is true, being possessed/mesmerised, oka the Attention being of others and not of self, is but a constantly vacillating event, 25/8 for almost all humans, including those whose dreams are never, ever, straight-forward. This is why Divinity is not easily/commonly perceivable other than through means established before the creation of the physical cosmos, a position which comes naturally to those who are not able to think other than to sense through what is common attributed to as the 6th sense. Living beings like vegetation, animals and human infants. A position not only well known but denied by The Bookie and His Tentacles, it is also denied to their Tag-Alongs as these fabulously privileged, special, talented and entitled entities are merrily mesmerised further into their dungeons 'finking they've got away wheet eet in addition to excessorising and opportunising. Ja, zist vine is no gut, get me vun wheet a better hint of zer paint on zat vindow. Ja whol, you must be zer owner of zat diamond-studded Paddy, ja?
The first duty of a puppet is to realise that it is but a puppet because at that moment, it has no other [real/absolute] duty if only because anything else is but a dream. Not when mesmerism is reigning invisibly other than imagining that only others are so controlled. A joke made, no less, by The Jester. A Simplicity which Eludes is that when one could actually see the non-material, what will happen when the materialists realised that only they are bounded by their environment, let alone having to literally see entities of all shapes and sizes? As such, is that being Merciful & Compassionate or is Someone having a laugh. When one has no means of bearing Truth, Truth then becomes a burden whereas when one of of Truth, Truth is not only The Living/Freedom, it is the only thing-living/living-thing.