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Re:Apple Q4 Results by privateSFacct on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:52PM (#21402555)
What terrible charts.

I won't go through it line by line but why highlight Q1 vs Q4 instead of prior year Q4 vs current period Q4 (ie, year vs year).

Highlighting periods with holiday sales against current nonholiday periods is ridiculous.

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Re:Apple Q4 Results by ihuman on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:57PM (#21402630)
I updated my comment to include Six Colors's article, which has more year-over-year graphs
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Re:Apple Q4 Results by nier on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:11PM (#21402789)
Most of the graphs on Six Colors have 2019-Q4 missing and some of the numbers are wrong. For example compare total revenue change for 2019-Q2 with the actual numbers in the second chart above.
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Re:Apple Q4 Results by sulam on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:38PM (#21404596)
... not paying close enough attention to Apples fiscal year...
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Re:Apple Q4 Results by mercutio2 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:56PM (#21404676)
Apple’s fiscal year begins in October and ends the following September. The just released results were for the fourth quarter of the 2019 fiscal year, 2019-Q4.
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Re:Apple Q4 Results by sulam on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:30PM (#21404853)
Wow sorry!
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Re:Apple Q4 Results by Godel_unicode on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:03PM (#21404706)
The very first sentence in the press release is "Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2019 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2019."
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