That description of banking on successes with incremental changes fits the history of a company we know well. Its called ......................... SONY.
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It is not necessarily number massaging, which would be categorized as fraud.
But there are other ways to "count" subscribers -- it's easy to hide the loss of paid subscribers as increased marketing cost by providing promotions to subscribers who might have left otherwise.
It appears #7 has turned reality. iPhone sales lower than almost all estimates. I don't expect Apple to go down big because of this though. All eyes on iPhone 5 now.
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Actually, post-Jobs era Apple executives have NO NEW IDEAS AT ALL. They do not even have the courage to make moderate shape changes in iPhone.
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But there are other ways to "count" subscribers -- it's easy to hide the loss of paid subscribers as increased marketing cost by providing promotions to subscribers who might have left otherwise.
Apple (AAPL): FQ3 EPS of $9.32 misses by $1.04. Revenue of $35B (+22% Y/Y) misses by $2.5B. 26M iPhones sold, 17M iPads, 4M Macs. Shares -5.5% AH. (PR). [View news story]
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But I do not expect this miss to hurt AAPL badly. All eyes on iPhone 5 now:
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