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AAPL China sales ??

hmm Initially CNBC was saying Apple China sales 99% or so but then read into numbers and wha? Had been reading stories of how Chinese seem to be going for in Country brands.

MW Apple earnings: the numbers everyone is obsessing over
By Sally French and Jessica Marmor Shaw , MarketWatch
Apple Inc. (AAPL) earnings never fail to disappoint the number-crunchers and this quarter, as ever, the iPhone maker provided plenty of figures to dissect from every angle imaginable (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-earnings-lifted-by-iphone-sales-in-china-2015-10-27-164854532).
Related: In one chart: How Microsoft has trumped Apple since Steve Jobs's death (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-one-chart-how-microsoft-has-trumped-apple-since-steve-jobss-death-2015-10-27)
IPhone sales drew the lion's share of attention from analysts and stock watchers. Apple said its quarterly profit rose 31%, sparked by strong demand for iPhones in China . It sold 48.04 million iPhones in its fiscal fourth quarter, falling short of analysts' estimates of 48.72 million units in the quarter. So to put that into perspective:
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These are always interesting numbers – iPhone ASP continues to be much higher year on year, iPad ASP stabilizing pic.twitter.com/ZgaH1b8u4Z

— Jan Dawson (@jandawson) October 27, 2015

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(https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/659108377067307008)
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In case you have any doubt about China’s importance to Apple’s growth… pic.twitter.com/nSMkUSYYwd

— Jan Dawson (@jandawson) October 27, 2015

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(https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/659111424594157568)
Meanwhile, finding new and creative ways to explain just how enormous Apple's cash hoard is never gets old:
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If Apple went to the bank and took out all its cash in $20 bills, they would stretch end-to-end to the moon and back. Twice. $AAPL

— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) October 27, 2015

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Apple's $205BB cash pile is greater than the stock market values of Disney, of Walmart and of Bank of America.

— Peter Lattman (@peterlattman) October 27, 2015

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Apple's $205 billion in cash is almost TWICE AS MUCH as the U.S. has in Foreign Exchange Reserves.

CHART: https://t.co/3JajVfNfqn $AAPL

— Stocktwits (@Stocktwits) October 27, 2015

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If you'd like a break from slicing and dicing the numbers, go ahead and take MarketWatch's Apple trivia quiz (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-how-well-do-you-know-your-newtons-from-your-lisas-2015-10-27) -- you may not know as much as you think about the company.
- Sally French ; 415-439-6400; [e-mail]
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