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It's Friday January 31st and we're talking about amazing quarters from Amazon and

Apple. I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I'm joined by Fool.com's Evan New.

Evan, we are both shareholders of Apple and Amazon.

It's kind of fun to see the earnings reports come in from companies that you know, especially when they're good.

Yeah, this was a pretty stellar quarter for Apple. I mean, if a company this big posting numbers, this impressive,

and I mean, it's just a complete blower in every way.

They are one of those companies that seems to defy the law of large numbers, you know, the idea that

growth gets harder and harder the bigger you get because the denominator gets larger and

larger and yet to your point

total revenue up 9% to an all-time record almost 92 billion dollars that's insane.

Right in other words they sold over a billion dollars worth of stuff every single day throughout the

quarter on average which is just kind of incredible to think about.

Yeah you can't really put it in those terms for too many other companies.

Revenue...

Or the only ones you can, or it's like Walmart who sells everything, and then ExxonMobil, which

sells like gas, which you need for your car. Yeah, Apple's in pretty good company there. So record on the

top line with the revenue growth that we saw. Also another record on the

bottom line net income over 20 billion, 22.2 billion or five dollars a share.

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