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...Soaring revenues from cloud services ensured earnings from IBM and Microsoft gave us a positive start to this big earnings week for tech....
...It’s a digital services and subscription company.”...
...Yet, Apple’s problems related to hardware shortages are offset by its fast-growing services business....
...Neil Cybart, an analyst at Above Avalon, points out that the Apple Watch alone is expected to sell nearly 40m units this year — roughly “double the unit sales of the entire Swiss Watch industry”....
...Valentina Avalon is someone Alibaba hopes can replicate its ecommerce success abroad....
...“No other product category would come close to matching that kind of revenue growth,” said Neil Cybart, an Apple watcher at Above Avalon....
...knew that iPhone sales were going to be flattered by a comparison to the prior year, when they had slipped 15 per cent to $52bn, but “the result went far beyond that”, said Neil Cybart, analyst at Above Avalon...
...One example is Apple Maps, a service that was much derided when it debuted in 2012....
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...At the end of 2018 CoreCivic, which has a market value of $2.3bn, managed almost 80 correctional, detention and re-entry facilities with 78,000 beds....
...The company recently unveiled a range of new subscription services, though most, including a premium video service, have yet to launch....
...an expanding portfolio of online services, including games, news and video....
...“I don’t necessarily look at this one move as succession,” says Neil Cybart, an independent Apple analyst at Above Avalon....
...Some 150m-175m iPhone users now have devices that are two to three years old, according to Neil Cybart, an Apple analyst at Above Avalon....
...Neil Cybart of Above Avalon predicts the “standard” 5.8-inch iPhone XS will start at $949, with the new 6.5-inch model going for $1,099....
...“If Apple reports more than $52.5bn of revenue, [it] would mark the company’s seventh consecutive quarter of accelerating revenue growth,” noted Neil Cybart, Apple analyst at Above Avalon....
...Neil Cybart, an Apple analyst at Above Avalon, forecast “other products” revenues rose 38 per cent to $3.8bn in the quarter, compared with iPhone revenues up 17 per cent year on year to $29.1bn....
...“The iPhone mega upgrade cycle of 2018 that so many were calling for is not going to happen,” Apple analyst Neil Cybart wrote at his site Above Avalon this week, before the stock began falling....
...Neil Cybart, analyst at Above Avalon, predicts $4.1bn in sales of “Other products”, up 43 per cent year on year....
...Neil Cybart of Above Avalon, a research group that tracks Apple, said the more limited and humanistic vision for the technology that Mr Giannandrea espouses sounds “more aligned with Apple’s philosophy regarding...
...Services — forecast to be about $8bn in the December quarter — will be a big component of that as Apple invests heavily in music, television shows and expanding the App Store....
...Based on Apple’s guidance for revenues of $84bn to $87bn in the three months ending in December, analyst Neil Cybart, of Above Avalon, estimates that Apple will beat its own record for the most profitable...
...While most of the focus remains on the iPhone, Apple has been talking up its services business over the past year or so....
...Instead, Shazam is an augmented-reality play,” Neil Cybart, an Apple analyst, said in his Above Avalon email newsletter on Monday....
...Apple has put a growing emphasis on media and services in its quarterly earnings reports this year....
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