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The switcher phenomenon continues with Android ... even outside the United States

It's been two days after record results from Apple, but still interesting data out as analysts do their work. The Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP or for short) has combined figures and found that the rate of people who decide to move from Android to iOS has accelerated, as reflected in Fortune.

But beware, there's something else to consider: occurs outside the United States. There, just as in many other western world, having a platform already secured to it and is much harder to change. However, there are many users in countries like China where the iPhone people spend after testing Android phones. The phenomenon is repeated switcher, but from another rival.

Never seen sales of iPhone: Financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2015

Again, it's night quarterly financial results in Apple. And being January, the results of the Christmas season will be, especially sales of iPhone. Hold on to the good numbers come: 74,600 million in revenue with a net profit of 18.000 billion.

The other figure that also breaks the most optimistic forecasts is the iPhone sales: 74.5 million units worldwide within months res. It is a triumph of the iPhone 6, with its new size has gotten attention. The Mac, moreover, has also broken sales records.

Image of the week: the new store in Hangzhou is already open, and it's awesome

Just over two weeks ago, Apple put a huge mural full of Chinese calligraphy created by Wang Dongling to announce the upcoming opening of the store of Hangzhou. The poster and alone as promised, but the store that was behind was even better looking. The top official image shown.

China, Huge crowds gather for Apple Store grand opening in Hangzhou

Apple has opened the doors to its new West Lake Apple Store in China today, letting throngs of eager customers into one of the company's largest retail outlets in Asia.

As promised earlier this week, Apple officially started sales at the West Lake Apple Store in Hangzhou, the first of five Chinese outlets to slated to open ahead of the Chinese New Year on Feb. 19.

The grand opening was celebrated by Apple CEO Tim Cook, who posted a rare tweet to mark the occasion.

"Starting Something New in Hangzhou, China!" Cook's tweet read, followed by the hashtag #AppleStoreWestLake. Cook seldom uses his social networking account to promote newly opened Apple Stores, but the Hangzhou location is an important first step in extending the company's reach into mainland China.


Last week, Apple SVP of Retail Angela Ahrendts reveals plans to open five Chinese stores before the Chinese New Year, the first being West Lake. Ahrendts' announcement is in line with Apple's lofty goal of opening 25 retail locations in China by the end of 2016.

According China, Apple would have accepted that the Chinese government inspect their products

Here is one such information for now we have to take with tweezers. According to Beijing News, a means of China, Apple would have given permission for the State Internet Information Office of the Chinese government to inspect iOS devices and Macs have been sold in the country.

The reason: the Chinese administration has been long suspected of Apple products and their safety, claiming that could be the means to spy on members of the government. For this reason it was rumored the prohición buying these devices if you were part of the government, and Tim Cook calmed the community with an open letter in which he said "has ever offered 'backdoors' your software and services to agencies and it never will. "

Darth Vader: Apple is finished!

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Yesterday was the day of presentation of results from Apple and as always, half the world stopped to see if its harmful results were confirmed: 

• Apple has stopped growing and goes irretrievably destruction. 

• Manufacturers mostly competing against Apple with commodity products, which are so used luegono like yours. 

• Manufacturers, except in the category of Samsung smartphones, not money making products or flagships whose sales do not exceed harmful and expensive iPhone 5c. 

But... that reality does not spoil a nice story against Apple!

Judge a company so severely for his "disappointing" quarterly results is extremely shortsighted. Guided by the expectations of Wall Street or a perpetual and constant growth, and expect a new category every two or three years at the level of iPhone is a mistake. First, because it is impossible, because it ignores second how innovation works. But still and all, sales of the iPad have had a drop of 16%, a drop of 19.48 to 16,350,000. Enough to tell that story: Apple is finished!

The key to the Apple's strategy is in the long run

"If your bearings in the long run, the interests of customers and shareholders are aligned" - Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. 

The real question we should ask is whether Apple is oriented in the long term or otherwise endeavors to squeeze the company to satisfy Wall Street. And if we step back and strive to look at the forest instead of the tree, we see that Apple's strategy is called ecosystem: 

• An ecosystem creates loyalty to the company that controls it, because your customers are captive. 

• It's harder to get a customer who is really into it, change device. The more you invest in the ecosystem, the harder it is to change totally platform. 

• The user benefits translate into comfort and integration of different devices. 

Apple is placing their pieces on the chessboard with utmost patience and undistracted

And how can we know that Apple is building a robust ecosystem? At the conference of shareholders yesterday, Tim Cook shared many details: 

• Even I was surprised by the growth of iTunes accounts to 800 million. If we consider that at WWDC Apple said last year he had accumulated 575 million, we have a growth of 225 million. Here it seems that Apple itself may increase the growth rate.

• We are interested in the number of credit card accounts, the chances of Touch ID and Cook's statements about the possibility of including a system of mobile payments.

• ITunes sales for the quarter were 5,200 million, growing 24% and a cumulative 70,000 million downloads of apps. It is estimated that the App Store has generated 85% more revenue than Google Play in the March quarter. 

• The iPad generates traffic to 4 times the sum of all Android tablets, although its market share.

• The Apple Stores are present in 15 countries and have recently opened stores in Brazil and Istanbul. They have reported plans to double its stores in the next 3 years. 

• Apple bought 24 companies in the last 18 months. Some are more important than others such as Authentec, which was the technology that allowed the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor.

All these data confirm us that the Californian company has always done: enhancing ecosystem services and to place the chess pieces in the right place. Quarter after quarter, device to device and year to year. Think long term, 5, 6 or even 7 plays later from what we see now, like the great masters of chess.

But iPad sales have fallen!

Yes, iPad sales have fallen and are not good news. Is it important? Yes. Apple would want a perpetual growth? Of course. But we must not read too much into one quarter. You can afford a drop in a quarter that is relatively bland in terms of sales (the next so often) when compared with Christmas because it has an ecosystem that protects it from these falls and allows it to counter the blows.

Those who say that Apple is finished, ignore the rest of positive data were confirmed in yesterday's conference:

• Sold 43.7 million iPhones when were planned 38 million. 

• Mac 4.1 million, slightly above estimates of about 4.03 million. 

• 66% of new activations iPads come from new customers. 

• Taiwan, Indonesia and Brazil have a double-digit growth. 

• Mac 4.1 million, slightly above estimates of about 4.03 million. 

• 66% of new activations iPads come from new customers. 

• Taiwan, Indonesia and Brazil have a double-digit growth. 

• India and Vietnam have doubled their sales. 

• 85% of buyers 4s in China are new to Apple. 

• There is also a 69% 5c buyers in China who are new. 

• A large percentage of these users come from China Android. But we had not been in a third of the buyers of the new iPhone Galaxy S5 come?

These data are particularly interesting given the saturation of developed markets. Apple is growing with more affordable terminals (but still scored in the high range) in China and India and part of Southeast Asia is a good sign. It shows that there is a market premium interested in their high-end products. 

It will be very interesting to see how Samsung and Apple face the growth of regional brands in the Chinese and Indian market, as the renamed Mi or Micromax. But we'll see in the future.

Absolute growth of Apple. +39%

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After analyzing the results , this is what I have commented Tim Cook and Peter Oppenheimer , CEO and CFO at Apple respectively, in the press release :

We are very proud of our quarterly results , especially our strong iPhone sales and record revenues from our services. We are eager to launch more new products that only Apple could bring to market.

We generated 13,500 million in cash to our operations and we have returned nearly 21,000 million to our shareholders through dividends and share repurchases in the fourth quarter. This makes our dividend program has already returned 66,000 million. 

The total cash available right now Apple is enviable 150,600 million. In addition, the company has used the press conference to announce a split of its shares, which means that now Apple will have a greater number of shares traded maintaining its social capital. Having exceeded expectations, shares have risen 7.7% since the results were revealed.

Here are some interesting points that Tim Cook mentioned by Luca Maestri , who gets the role of Peter Oppenheimer to anticipate your retirement

• Apple is gaining market share in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada , Germany, France , Vietnam and China.

• Confirmed 800 million iTunes accounts , most of them linked to a credit card.

• IPad sales were worse than analysts expected, but better than I expected Apple.

• Already Apple Stores in fifteen countries. Angela Ahrendts is confirmed that Apple will enter next week .

• 66% of those who have activated a new iPad are people who had never had an iPad .

• Apple has bought 24 companies in the last year and a half.

• We have sold over 6.3 million iPhones last year .

• ITunes Digital stores have generated 5,200 million dollars in revenue , growing 24 % over last year. Have been downloaded more than 70,000 million applications.

• The good performance is due mainly to Mac MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.

• The iPad web traffic is four times greater than the web traffic of all makes and models of Android tablets combined .

• Two-thirds of people who want to buy a tablet in the next three months want to buy an iPad .

• Financially, Peter Oppenheimer leaves an Apple twenty times larger than the one found . He has not missed any release of results in ten years.

Questions and Answers Press

Here we highlight the most interesting questions that the press has made Tim Cook and Luca Maestri:

800 million iTunes accounts is a great growth ... then why the revenue growth has decelerated in iTunes? Tim commented that think they can monetize their services in existing areas and in new areas, but also notes that even so the growth has been very strong in markets such as the Chinese .

Can you accelerate Office for iPad tablet sales? Tim has realized that the iPad is the fastest growing product in the history of Apple, and "believes" that Office can help as a key tool in business.

Many competitors have lowered the prices of its smartphones, how do you see the market? Tim 's answer is that Apple wants to watch for those who only want the best smartphones, and not all of these smartphones have to be the most expensive. They have learned much selling iPhones in China.

Does the AppleTV stops being a hobby? Tim insists that other for sales and have good feelings about the dealings with distributors of content.

A "low" Apple. Financial results for the Q2 2014.Growth 39,3%

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Apple has made official the financial results for its second fiscal quarter of 2014. Apple has 45,600 millions of dollars in revenue. 3,000 million more than analysts predicted. Representing a growth of 39.3% over last year. The net profit was 10,200 million. 

Sales figures fluctuate forecasts 43.7 million iPhones sold (38 million less than expected), 16.35 million iPads (here expected more, 19.7 million), 4.1 million Macs (expected 4.03 million) and 2.76 million iPods sold (2.99 million expected).

If we observe the annual variation aside, we can see that Apple has even grown slightly Having spent a quarter where there has been almost no news:

Let us now look at the Apple data division. Stresses that now the income of the iPod and represent only 1% of total revenue, while the iPhone is eating more and more proportion with 57% of revenues:

And where do all these revenues? America, Europe and China most are performed: