Every company is destined to peak. Expecting Apple to continue to grow is just unrealistic. iPad sales are down, but tablets sales are cannibalized by phablets, and the iPhone Plus is the best selling phablet out there.

Could've the iPads done better? Absolutely, Apple failed the iPad on the software front. iOS on tablets should've gotten more differentiating key features but that didn't happen until iOS9, a step in the right direction for iPads but it is possibly a bit too late.

Mac sales are up and down randomly, and they are doing well compared to other PC manufacturers. The PC market has taken a hit for quite some time now while Apple has been growing. It's finally catching up to Apple.

"Services" growth isn't to be ignored, it's highlighted in the OP.

The iPhone 6 feeded the hunger for huge iPhones and the growth was massive. Too massive to build on with an S model. I, and many others, predicted iPhone sales to decline long ago. It's not a surprise. Not saying the iPhone 7 will beat the iPhone 6 sales but it's too early to spell doom.

The Apple watch is a relative flop but give me another smartwatches manufacturer that is doing better with such a useless product?

Apple TV is doing great and with $200b+ in cash, they will only branch out with more products that sustain the company even if those products are not the "next big things".

This is insane. $18.4 billion in profit in 3 months?

Nintendo didn't make that much from the Wii and DS combined over 5 years and those are highest profits seen in the game business by ten country miles. 

They're going to have more money than most countries if this keeps up. 

Just checked yeah, Apple now apparently has two of the most profitable quarters in corporate history, with this one and Q1 from last year being 1 and 2. No. 3 is Fannie Mae, then Apple again, and then Exxon Mobil a few times. 

They are making more money than Exxon freaking Mobil was at its peak. Unbelievable. 

Business is weird. Apple announcing a record quarter somehow translates to this being the "beginning of the end" for them. Weird.

I disagee that they need a lower price. What I think they need to do is stop releasing small upgrades each year and instead, focus on releasing maybe every 3 years with tech that truly wows people. If you look at 4S to iPhone 6, that's a huge leap and one that would floor people. Unfortunately, invetors prevent something like that from ever happening.

This

This is the most profitable quarter in *corporate history*. More than Exxon Mobil. More than what Sony has made probably in the last 20 years combined. 

This is unbelievable. 

Apple doesn't need to do shit, lol, they make more money now than oil companies when oil was $100/barrell. They are literally swimming in money. 

They could honestly start their own country soon. 

It's sales and numbers, where was I supposed to post it?

And I believe Rol was being sarcastic.

We are in the beginning of a global down turn in the economy people.
EVERY company's sales/profits are going to suffer over the next year or two.
Stop acting like Apple's estimate for the next quarter results is somehow out of line with the rest of the companies in the world.

Apple: selling under powered overpriced shit since forever. I must praise their marketing team tho.

I would say, the huge drop of iPad numbers has to do with the lack of an iPad Air 3.

Although the iPad mini and iPad Pro are welcome additions for some people, the 10'' tablet size is still the gold standard.

Additionally, the performance and durability of the older iPad-models is hurting the replacement rate. Even an iPad 2 of 2011 still can run almost any app or game and the battery time of these old devices is still fantastic.