{"id":40257,"date":"2023-08-04T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40257"},"modified":"2023-08-11T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:21:11","slug":"apples-q3-2023-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/04\/apples-q3-2023-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s Q3 2023 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2023\/08\/apple-reports-third-quarter-results\/\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2023\/08\/this-is-tim-apples-q3-2023-analyst-call-transcribed\/\">transcript<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=36991381\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/08\/03\/apple-q3-2023-earnings-call-takeaways\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2023\/08\/apple-reports-third-quarter-results\/\">\n<p>The Company posted quarterly revenue of $81.8 billion, down 1 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.26, up 5 percent year over year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are happy to report that we had an all-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/08\/03\/apple-q3-2023-earnings-call-takeaways\/\"><\/a>time revenue record in Services during the June quarter, driven by over 1 billion paid subscriptions, and we saw continued strength in emerging markets thanks to robust sales of iPhone,&rdquo; said Tim Cook, Apple&rsquo;s CEO.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2023\/08\/charts-apple-q3-2023-results\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2023\/08\/charts-apple-q3-2023-results\/\"><p>The three key hardware categories were all down year-over-year: Mac was down 7%, iPad was down 20%, and the all-important iPhone was down 2%. Things were a little different in the two portions of Apple&rsquo;s business that have shown indefatigable growth in recent years: Services revenue was up 8% and the Wearables, Home, and Accessories category was up 2%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/12\/mac-sales-in-q2-2023\/\">Mac Sales in Q2 2023<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/apples-q2-2023-results\/\">Apple&rsquo;s Q2 2023 Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/14\/gass-on-apple-services\/\">Gass&eacute;e on Apple Services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/02\/apples-q3-2022-results\/\">Apple&rsquo;s Q3 2022 Results<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apples-q3-2023-results-update-2023-08-11\">Update (2023-08-11): <a href=\"https:\/\/bzamayo.com\/one-billion-apple-subscribers\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bzamayo.com\/one-billion-apple-subscribers\">\n<p>But that&rsquo;s about all Apple will tell us as to the performance of Services. It hasn&rsquo;t reported Apple Music subscriber numbers since 2019, nor has it ever given hard figures about the performance of Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, News, iCloud, or Apple One in general. A billion subscribers is a huge headline figure, but it obscures the real story of what most people think of when you say &lsquo;Apple services&rsquo;. Services includes the App Store, and so a majority of that 1 billion total includes In-App Purchase subscriptions from third-party apps in the App Store. Although we never know for sure because Apple won&rsquo;t tell us, it follows that the majority of Services revenue growth hails from the 15-30% commission Apple collects on those in-app purchase transactions.<\/p>\n<p>If I was a financial investor, I would be growing increasingly dissatisfied with the murkiness of the Services business. For Apple&rsquo;s flagship growth unit, it&rsquo;s really hard to get a read on its performance. The golden goose of Apple&rsquo;s stronghold on the App Store is constantly under threat from regulation, but we can&rsquo;t measure the potential impact on Services revenue. The success of Apple&rsquo;s content services are a hedge against the risk of App Store commission drying up, but we don&rsquo;t know anything about the state of those offerings &mdash; we can&rsquo;t even say for sure they are successful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $81.8 billion, down 1 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.26, up 5 percent year over year. &ldquo;We are happy to report that we had an all-time revenue record in Services during the June quarter, driven by over 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-08-04T17:32:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"a8d3f496-820f-4950-a6ea-c97741d6ea3c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-08-11T13:21:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqNP0loIPSVCm6sl3QdbqPA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,1804,2250,101,145,30],"class_list":["post-40257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-quarterly-results","tag-apple-services","tag-business","tag-ipad","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40317,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions\/40317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}