Comment by newman314

People were losing their minds over the fact that iPhone shipments slightly declined. If you look at the year over year growth (excluding the massive bump for iPhone 6), it would show that AAPL is still ahead of the growth curve.

See https://imgur.com/vO0kPEy

* Apple's quarterly revenue: $75.9bil

* Apple's quarterly profit: $18.4bil

* Google's quarterly revenue: $21.3bil

* Google's quarterly profit: $6.8bil

In sheer numbers, Apple's total profit is quite a bit more than Google's so there's that.