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Re:Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE by BartBoch on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:02PM (#19030243)
1,4 billion user-base? I wonder how they calculate this. It looks like non-unique users (devices connected). Or maybe lifetime accounts number.
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Re:Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE by ahakki on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:11PM (#19030330)
According to Tim Cook on the earnings call he called it "active install base". Make of that what you will.
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Re:Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @08:17PM (#19031682)
Sounds like actively used devices. Which means the number of users is lower as some/many people use more than one Apple device.
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Re:Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE by pmontra on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:14PM (#19030358)
Are they counting iTunes on Windows?
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Re:Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE by cm2187 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:04PM (#19030765)
Well, he didn't say happy users.
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Re:Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE by saagarjha on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:08PM (#19030295)
I believe it's the number of unique devices that connect to one of their services in a month, or something similar to that.
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Re:Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE by gdilla on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:01PM (#19030729)
That wouldn't be a user base though. People have N apple devices each. Could be unique appleIDs to use the appstores.
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Re:Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE by saagarjha on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:27PM (#19030968)
Since you need an Apple ID to access their services, I'm sure it's easy to deduplicate users.
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Re:Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE by marketgod on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:19PM (#19030903)
Average per customer is based on the Apple ID. User base is number of devices. Don't have a quotable source though.
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Re:Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE by gordon_freeman on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:10PM (#19030814)
Maybe distinct count of Active Apple IDs?
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