Would Steve Jobs be pleased? | #TechnoBiz debrief with Arthur Goldstuck

BizRadio chats to Arthur Goldstuck about Apple’s place, position and future in the African market. He shares their latest results and chats about the new iPhone offerings – iPhone 5s & iPhone 5c and what he thinks Steve Jobs would feel about the brand today.

Arthur Godlstuck in conversation with BizRadio’s Grant Jansen

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The Apple quarterly results delighted those who were looking for revenue growth, but provided a series of disappointments, especially lurking within record iPhone sales. Apple’s quarterly results were announced this week with yet another high point in Apple history: the most iPhones ever sold in an April-June quarter. Unfortunately, the sterling number of 31,2-million phones sold (up from 26-million in the same quarter a year ago) happened to be dramatically down from the January-March quarter, when it moved 37,4-million iPhones.

To make matters worse, half of these sales were of older 4 and 4S models – with prices and margins slashed to make way for the 5,  resulting in Apple’s profit margin slipping from 42.8% a year ago to 36.9%. Tightening margins on iPads have also contributed to the slip.

Nevertheless, investors responded with delight to news that apps, software and iTunes sales had leaped by 25% and research and development spending was also climbing – reinforcing expectations of big new things from Apple – to read more

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