Hello I'm William Gallagher and this is the Apple Insider Podcast on a week in which Apple

has made a lot of money. Joining me is Wes Hilliard, who, well actually I was going to say Wes,

he's trying his best to give Apple as much money as he can.

I think we all are, really.

Wes, were you astounded by Apple's success this week?

Well I'm happy with my participation in the effort to ensure Apple doesn't go out of

business for yet another quarter despite Wall Street's dearest intentions.

You're a good man. Looking after the interests of Apple, it's moving. The little guy, you know?

Yes. Well, I remember when they were the little guy how do analysts work this

out excuse me how do analysts not work this out though every I mean understand, as we record this, the earnings are out, but the shares

and stock will go down tomorrow and all this stuff.

They always go down no matter what Apple does.

And beforehand, Apple's kind of

yeah so is there money in being wrong as an analyst do you think?

Yeah it's either they they did too good and they're going to come crashing down

any moment or they didn't do good enough and it's the sign of the end times.

There is no in between. But no it's not surprising. I mean here we are. Let's see this this is the gosh what what

month is it is it January so this is it's already February so this is their holiday quarter, of course.

So gangbusters as always, lots of iPhone sales,

lots of things going on.

Not a lot in the way of hardware releases. We did have that October spooky event with some

Max that helped to boost some of that revenue, but most of all, you know, as usual, that services revenue is very impactful and it's just it's a fun roller coaster to ride.

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