iPhone's revenue bigger than all of Microsoft

[monkey13]

Bit surprised at how much this is but then Apple have been selling essentially the same product for 3.5 years now (since the 3G). Production costs must have come down but the price has remained about the same and demand has increased. All that equals profit.

Also they sold more as many iPhones in Q1 as they did in the two previous quarters combined. People do seem to love the iPhone.

[lt8480]

BTW, "irregardless" isn't a word. :p

Just skimming... and I know completely off-topic but:

Irregardless has been a word for 100 years now and is mainly used in North America only (H. Wentworth ? American Dialect Dictionary ? 1912). Its two negative elements make it strange, because it still means the same as regardless. Nowadays it has somewhat been accepted and can be legitimately used as a non-standard word for extra emphasis or humor.

[Pam14160]

Thought this was about the iPhone, not OS's made by Apple, and Microsoft. Think this went in the direction the OP meant for it to go. . .down hill.

[devHead]

good thing you speak for only applehaters which are a slight more handicapped than apple fanboys. A good product is simply a good product no matter who it comes from.

I have no doubt they have good products. They're just overpriced. Simply good or not, they're more expensive than they should be only because they carry the Apple name.

[neo1911]

^^ I don't think Apple products are overpriced. Most competitors also have expensive products matching Apple price point. Yet they don't sell. In today's world, appearances sell. Apple realised this and other companies are 10 years late in realizing this.

Apple products would have been overpriced 5-6 years ago. But general affordability of people has gone up.

[Malisk]

It's funny given what Ballmer said when the iPhone was announced.

[resol612]

Not bad, this should give them enough fuel to sue everyone else out of Earth. "Apple loves this planet... you get off!"

[UndergroundWire]

Are you kidding me? Since when is $0, $100 and $200 considered this "over priced thing"?

Either way, considering their sales in every division is increasing, there's plenty of room in the market.

And MS and Apple have been compared to each other since day one. The comparison is nothing new.

LOL. You are looking at the contract price of a phone. How embarrasing.

[UndergroundWire]

Thought this was about the iPhone, not OS's made by Apple, and Microsoft. Think this went in the direction the OP meant for it to go. . .down hill.

The fact is the iPhone is their number 1 money maker followed by the iPad. I don't know why people started talking about OSX and Windows 7.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Instead of arguing about the price of the iPhone some of you should look at the broader picture. Have you ever wondered why Windows 8 is more tailored for tablets than for traditional desktops? Microsoft know that the future is not the traditional PC; the future is an integrated platform across smartphones/tablets/laptops. You know, the same thing Apple has been offering for the past two years.

They have to change unless they want Apple to be as dominating in the post-PC era as Microsoft used to be.

[HawkMan]

Wrong. OSX is $29.99.

The boxed upgrade, yes. Read my whole post anddont selectively ignore parts of it and you seem more intelligent.

[Coi]

Well, Microsoft sells overpriced, ridiculously expensive OS for $300.

And using a bit of math, Mac OS X should cost $6200?

Wrong. OSX is $29.99.

That's for a service pack, not the OS itself. :/

[jandler]

It doesn't matter who is winning now. All that matters is who is left standing at the end.

[Astra.Xtreme]

That's for a service pack, not the OS itself. :/

Service pack? Looks like somebody can't look past a numbering scheme...

[HawkMan]

Service pack? Looks like somebody can't look past a numbering scheme...

some OSX upgrades aren't much more than some of the better Windows service packs, but then we're talking the XP services packs which where exceptions, partly due to the long life and the fact it wasn't launched as a internet OS as such, and neede dto be upgraded with broadband itnernet consumer security in the SP's.

The boxed versions of OSX are however only upgrades, they are not full OS licenses, even though they are masked as this by nto specifically saying upgrade license. However, since you HAVE to have a base OSX license in order to install an boxed OSX copy "legally" in the first place. it is an upgrade license you're buying. and the base OS license, is a lot higher than the base windows license.

[44MLX]

Huge sums of revenue from both companies, if used for research and development innovation would be really interesting.

[M_Lyons10]

This is a tough comparison though because Microsoft sustains an entire ecosystem. Look at all of the companies that make big profits selling Microsoft products, or devices powered by Microsoft products... Whereas Apple sells all of the hardware too. I'd love to see the figure of how much revenue Microsoft actually supports each year. I'd wager it's a rather sizable chunk of any economy.

[helios01]

Title is incorrect btw, MS is worth over $247B at the time of this post. I think you meant, "bigger than all of MS['s quarterly revenue]"...

[alexalex]

Title is incorrect btw, MS is worth over $247B at the time of this post. I think you meant, "bigger than all of MS['s quarterly revenue]"...

We are talking revenue :-)

[helios01]

We are talking revenue :-)

You're talking about Apple's revenue, but saying "Apple revenue bigger than all of Microsoft" means exactly that.

[neufuse Veteran]

And using a bit of math, Mac OS X should cost $6200?

That's for a service pack, not the OS itself. :/

I'd love to know where I can get a dual processor xeon system for only $1400 with two 24" monitors that are IPS :|

[neufuse Veteran]

just to point out the true cost of the iPhone when its sold....

24.42 billion in rev

sold 37 million phones...

not taking in account production costs...

thats $660 per phone in revenue! How much are these phones supose to cost again?..... I'm assuming the iPhone revenue is just the phones, not the app store which they seemed to group seperatly on the graphs

[HawkMan]

Probably also includes the massive kickback from the mandatory iPhone only subscriptions plans any providers that sells iPhones on plans are required to have, which kicks back 30% of the subscription right back at Apple.

I'd love to know where I can get a dual processor xeon system for only $1400 with two 24" monitors that are IPS :|

you can get fairly Cheap IPS panels displays today. as For XEON unless you're running a Database or massive spreadsheets, a plain regular i5/i7 would give better performance. Xeon is just Apple marketing to make them seem better because they're more expensive, not necessarily better for the task. It's a server CPU not a workstation CPU.

in any case, for the price difference you could add in Xeons and some really nice IPS panels and still be at only half the cost of the Mac there.

[neufuse Veteran]

Probably also includes the massive kickback from the mandatory iPhone only subscriptions plans any providers that sells iPhones on plans are required to have, which kicks back 30% of the subscription right back at Apple.

you can get fairly Cheap IPS panels displays today. as For XEON unless you're running a Database or massive spreadsheets, a plain regular i5/i7 would give better performance. Xeon is just Apple marketing to make them seem better because they're more expensive, not necessarily better for the task. It's a server CPU not a workstation CPU.

in any case, for the price difference you could add in Xeons and some really nice IPS panels and still be at only half the cost of the Mac there.

not for what I figured out, to build my own system with a good quality motherboard like the Mac Pro has and the same xeon chips, it was about $5,500 and to get a good quality IPS panel that MATCHES the quality of the Apple display, it was only about $500 cheaper then the apple model shown and that is with building it myself

you could say I am trying to be an apple fanboy by saying this, but there are people on this site who would laugh at you for saying that about me :rofl:

[HawkMan]

At that price, the IPS panels you picked are beyond what's in the cinema displays. you're probably talking High end Eizo panels that photographers and such use then. The Cinema screens are nice, and good, but not that good.