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Speaker 2: You're listening to Bloomberg Business Week with krol Messer and

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Speaker 2: Tim Stenebek on Bloomberg Radio and Television. All right here,

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Speaker 2: the Apple numbers third quarter revenue coming in above estimates

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Speaker 2: at eighty five point seven eight billion dollars. Estimates were

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Speaker 2: for eighty four point four to six billion. Third quarter

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Speaker 2: iPhone revenue coming in above estimates at thirty nine point

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Speaker 2: three billion. Estimates are for thirty eight point nine to

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Speaker 2: five billion third quarter Great Greater China revenue coming in

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Speaker 2: below estimates. That one certainly watched very closely fourteen point

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Speaker 2: seven three billion dollars. But we did see third quarter

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Speaker 2: services revenue come in above estimates at twenty four point

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Speaker 2: twenty one billion dollars. Shares of Apple bouncing around in

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Speaker 2: the after hours. They were at first hire when these

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Speaker 2: numbers first cross, now down about one percent.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are bouncing kind of flat, if you will, right,

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Speaker 1: They're bouncing around here. So we're trying to make sense

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Speaker 1: of it. So let's get to it with our co

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Speaker 1: host of Bloomberg Technology on Bloomberg Television, Ed La La.

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Speaker 1: Here in our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studio up, Big Week,

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Speaker 1: Big Day ed first Blush, What are you taking away from.

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Speaker 3: THEE I kind of alluded to this in the preview

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Speaker 3: in the top Live blog. Great beat for iPhone revenue

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Speaker 3: in the quarter, which is interesting because we're pre sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like, why are people buying phones right now? They

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Speaker 2: should be waiting right.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of waiting in markets like China

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Speaker 3: that they were buying the fifteen generation with the intention

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Speaker 3: of holding onto it. And then I go to the

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Speaker 3: grater China revenue missing estimates and the third party data.

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Speaker 3: Third party data is not always right, but he did

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Speaker 3: tell us that Apple was slipping in greater China.

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Speaker 2: Is the IDC data, the IDC data.

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Speaker 3: There's counterpoint research, there's loads, But my point is that

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Speaker 3: there was worried they would They did really face domestic

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Speaker 3: pressure on the handset market there, and you always look

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Speaker 3: to China as a point of focus. So you have

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Speaker 3: CFO Lookame Street often addresses that issue head on how

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Speaker 3: they did in the market in China, specifically.

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Speaker 2: Erning's for share, earnings for share coming in one dollars

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Speaker 2: and forty cents per share. That beat estimates of one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, you know, I'm looking at kind

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Speaker 1: of our right through buyer mark Erman, you know, marking

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Speaker 1: a return to revenue growth last quarter, he says, topping

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Speaker 1: analyst estimates, indicating that upgraded iPads and a strong services

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Speaker 1: business helped make up for some of those headwinds in China.

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Speaker 1: So sales were up five percent to eighty five point

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Speaker 1: eight billion in that fiscal third quarter, the iPhone maker, saying,

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Speaker 1: putting out that statement, analyst had predicted eighty four point

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Speaker 1: five So that's a beat. Three months ago, the CFO

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Speaker 1: the low single digits during the period. So some comparisons there. Again,

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Speaker 1: just quick check on what Apple's doing here in the aftermarket,

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Speaker 1: pulling it up here on my Bloomberg and because we

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Speaker 1: said it's been bouncing around here, it's now up about

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Speaker 1: up about thirteen percent so far in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Okay, overall revenue beat, iPhone revenue beat, MAC revenue beat,

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Speaker 2: looking pretty good. There was that miss on China. Of course,

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Speaker 2: Tim Cook saying in a statement that Apple's reporting a

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Speaker 2: new June quarter revenue record of eighty five point eight billion,

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Speaker 3: Actually important to us what investors are looking for a

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Speaker 3: what Apple wants to do is make the things already

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Speaker 3: The delay by a few weeks post iOS eighteen generation

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Speaker 3: trying to do the math on what prompts and individuals

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Well, like you know, we said, I'm going

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Speaker 2: Well, here the CFO taking notes right now, Carol. Two

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Speaker 1: Now, it's kind of interesting, right exactly. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at our live blog too. There isn't a

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Speaker 1: single mention of the Vision Pro and Apple's earnings release.

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Speaker 1: The thirty five hundred dollar our headset is Apple's first

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Speaker 2: What's interesting is that there's a post from Ed Lovelow

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Speaker 2: While he's here in our studio with us.

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Speaker 1: How are you thinking about We've been talking with you

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Speaker 1: How are you thinking about them? I don't know that

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Speaker 3: And what's so interesting is, like I was talking a

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Speaker 1: It does go a long way. Hey, listen, we've been

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Speaker 1: our Apple guru joining us right now. Coming off of earnings,

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Speaker 1: Mark walk us through what you think the Bloomberg audience

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the through line here is that Apple be across

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Speaker 5: the board in every product category iPhone, iPad, wearables, home

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Speaker 5: There still the iPhone one percent year of a year decline,

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Speaker 5: Why is China's performance continuing to decline. Apple does say

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Speaker 2: But what do you expect them in terms of color

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Speaker 3: Hey, Mark, it's unbelievable that you and I are speaking

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Speaker 5: Well, the thing is is Apple never really gets into

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Speaker 1: We're talking with Mark German, We're talking with Ed Ludlow.

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Speaker 1: Apple third quarter iPhone revenue that's a beat. Third quarter

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Speaker 1: that was a beat. Mark in terms of AI and

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Speaker 5: I want to know if they think it's going to

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Speaker 5: based solely on the new features that are currently available

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Speaker 5: I happen to think that Apple Intelligence is really a

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Speaker 5: late twenty twenty five story, and maybe next year is

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Speaker 5: they'll still grow based on it. Some people will be

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Speaker 5: just appointed if they buy the iPhone based on Apple intelligence,

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Speaker 5: at least from the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Ed come on back in here to remind us about

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Speaker 2: capex and why CAPEX should be looked at differently with

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Speaker 3: Because historically capital expenditures for Apple are just kind of

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Speaker 3: in the current environment. Right, It's just not a part

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Speaker 3: But what I find so interesting about Apple strategy is

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Speaker 4: Think about the partnerships, right.

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Speaker 3: You know, Apple is not as hyper focused on the

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Speaker 3: And you know that's why I'm a tongue in you know,

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Speaker 3: investors always say, I wonder what they'll do with that

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Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Like, well, listen, they say, during the quarter of our

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Speaker 1: always think about this mark whenever we talk with you,

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Speaker 5: I'll simplify it for you. From a financial standpoint, everything

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Speaker 5: is just fine, right, a little bit of concern in China.

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Speaker 5: But my concerns about Apple aren't the financials today. It's

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Speaker 5: game changing innovation that we used to see. I'm simply

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Speaker 5: Apple Intelligence, I'm seeing something that's not as good as

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Speaker 5: the competition with Apple Intelligence. I'm seeing them add features

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Speaker 5: I'm seeing really impressive new technology like the Vision Pro

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Speaker 5: developer kit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So I'm concerned about Apple products right now, and obviously

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so long term Mark, because you have such a

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Speaker 2: good view into the pipeline, much to the chagrin of Apple,

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Speaker 2: the live blog, not even mentioned in this report.

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Speaker 5: Is that right? That's right?

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Speaker 2: So what is the big picture for the pipeline over

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Speaker 2: the next five years.

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Speaker 5: I think we're probably two or three years away from

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Speaker 5: foldable phones, new types of touchscreen devices, new home devices,

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Speaker 5: new macs. But I'm not seeing anything in the next

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Speaker 5: be a game changer, right, division pro technology is a

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Speaker 5: game changer. Nobody wants it. It's too heavy, it's too expensive,

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Speaker 5: there's no content.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna leave it there. Listen your gem.

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Speaker 1: You have so much going on and so appreciate it. Markerman,

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Speaker 1: he's Bloomberg News chief technology correspondent joining us out there

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Speaker 1: from the West Coast. We're not gonna let Ed lad

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Speaker 1: logo yet because Ed, you know, we lean on you

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Speaker 1: like we lean on Mark. I feel like we've been

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Speaker 2: That's why we flew him out to New York this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really, really smart question.

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Speaker 3: So there's one thing that I learned very quickly, which

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Speaker 4: That won't go well for you.

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Speaker 3: And I think that it's because we've just about the

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Speaker 3: then hang up. It's because with that you can basically

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Speaker 3: sort of extrapolay it out further afield. That's why Amazon's

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Speaker 3: so interesting. Until the call, we're not really going to

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Speaker 1: It's a really great point. Yeah, right, Like you need

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Speaker 1: I'm like, do we want to they'll let them go?

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Speaker 1: I guess we need to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we gotta let them go because we got another

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Speaker 3: I just got a day's point. So on the CFO call,

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Speaker 3: there's a media call that's just started with Amazon. Amazon

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Speaker 4: In AWS infrastructure. So I think I answered that question.

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Speaker 1: We did answer it. Astin answered all right, Kit, I listen.

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