Last night the people from Apple completed the list of companies that announced their financial results for the last 3 months of this year (Q3 2013 for Apple)And those from Verge thought to compare his results with those of Microsoft si Google. All 3 companies had better revenues than in the same period last year, but in the case Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), the difference was not even as big as in the case of Microsoft, for example, Google being in exactly the same situation, but its revenues have had approximately the same value for a few months now.
Regarding the profit, notice that in the case of Apple we are talking about a radical decrease of almost 1.5 billion dollars compared to Q3 2013, while both Microsoft and Google earned more money. The falling profit also generated a reduction in the profit margin generated by the sale of its own products, those from Microsoft having a similar problem, but Google managed to generate an increase. Apple had already announced a few months ago that we should expect a stagnation of growth, especially since now the company has started to invest massively in research and development, the acquisition of new companies, it has started to buy back shares and pay dividends.
