Anonymous ID: 1e7007 May 17, 2018, 6:35 p.m. No.1451104   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1121 >>1170 >>1258 >>1265

>>1448537 >Air China pic

>>1448660 >Q is everywhere

>>1448805 #1818

>boxes look EXACTLY LIKE THE WAY APPLE LABELS THEIR PHONE BOXES FOR SHIPPING

>>1449029 >Q APPLE HK/shipping pallet pics on 5/02/18

>Day after Apple's surprise quarterly earnings beat

>>1449130

>day Buffet bought 75M shares of Apple

<or at least revealed…pic related

>>1449124 >Combine Combine…

>>1449057 >…on da ball 2day…

<damn lol wow, went out for a covfefe and all hell breaks loose…

 

(the following Tale of Two Apples will be told in the style of old Zero Hedge back in the day. will roll out in serial format over the next few breads. will post a summary w/ backlinks once completed.)

 

First, a bit of color: on May Day, Apple blew away analyst estimates for Q1. Let CNBC give us a taste how…

>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/apple-iphone-x-top-seller-in-china-sending-revenue-up-21-percent.html

Apple posted some of its strongest growth during the March quarter in one of its toughest geographic regions.

 

The iPhone maker reported $13 billion in revenue from Greater China during its second fiscal quarter — a 21 percent year-over-year spike.

That puts the company's China revenue on par with its European revenue.

 

On the company's earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said that the iPhone X, the company's newest model, "was the most popular smartphone in all of China last quarter."

 

The company's performance in China is particularly impressive as overall smartphone sales were down in Q1

Anonymous ID: 1e7007 May 17, 2018, 7:01 p.m. No.1451409   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1437 >>1470

>>1451121

that sure is a helluva lot of shares to be buying in a single quarter for anyone, even Berkshire.

>>1451170

also remember an article about how apple is shifting their domestic focus on service center fees (aka ripping off current customers with their iphone time bombs).

will have to find that as well.

>>1451265 from link:

Today Apple formally transferred its Chinese iCloud operations to a local firm in southern China. It also began hosting its iCloud encryption keys in China, instead of the US, for the first time. The move has been expected since last year when Apple announced its partnership with Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD), a Chinese firm supervised by a board ran by government-owned businesses, with close ties to the government and Chinese Communist Party.

>>1451280 >Chinese Lottery

Interdaasting. Have a gut feeling all these threads are related somehow.

Guizhou/Shenzen/Hong Kong - all southern China