Apple has reported record revenues and done so with success in three key areas, none of which required Apple Intelligence, which analysts insisted the company needed to concentrate on. Here's
Apple has reported record revenues and done so with success in three key areas, none of which required Apple Intelligence, which analysts insisted the company needed to concentrate on. Here's how the quarter compares.

Two smartphones display bar graphs. The left graph shows multi-colored, stacked bars; the right graph shows blue bars. Both graphs depict quarterly data with varying heights.
As ever, it was the iPhone's success that really drove Apple's earnings.

Tim Cook has previously said that after an earnings call, he talks a walk across Apple Park to decompress. This time, it's possible he skipped, because Apple reported earning $94 billion when analysts predicted a possible high of $92.1 billion, but also a possible low of $86.9 billion.

Perhaps those analysts all then went out for a drink together to discuss how they went so wrong. But they're very rarely perfectly right, and every analysts' report seen by AppleInsider since the results has had a "yeah, but" tone.


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