Hello and welcome to episode one of the Apple Insider Podcast. It's our inaugural

episode and we're happy to join you. My name is Stephen Robles,

contributor at Apple Insider, and I'm here with editor Daniel Dilger who's been a long time

Apple Insider editor. Welcome Daniel.

Thanks for having me Stephen. Yeah and well thanks for having me too I know

you've been here a while so it's a great time I think to start an Apple Insider podcast, especially with the news this week.

So I'm pretty excited to talk about it. special Apple's earnings call. And that was kind of the biggest

news this week. I don't know if it, were you surprised by it? I mean it's pretty amazing numbers

that they posted. It was pretty surprising.

I think everybody was expecting it to be high

and looking at the analyst estimates,

there was this range.

I think their guidance was in the high 60s and they look quite a bit

I love that but I was just seeing just the high end estimates from analysts just

guessing that it was going to be close to 70 and thinking there's that cycle where analysts

just guess whatever and if Apple doesn't make that then Apple failed as opposed to the analyst.

Right, Right.

And it's, I mean, you can, a great article on our site is by the numbers article where there's a breakdown of all the numbers, but it was 74.6 billion in revenue and 18 billion in profit

which is that's really the astounding number you know to me and they now have a

hundred and seventy nine billion dollars cash on hand which is just wild

So I would check out the by the numbers but that's just a crazy amount of money

It's just it's amazing and all as for somehow the analysts always seem to say it always

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