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Here’s what people are saying about yesterday’s Apple earnings

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Benjamin Snyder
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January 28, 2015, 3:57 PM ET
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Apple announced its quarterly earnings Tuesday to, unsurprisingly, a great deal of fanfare on social media. Some highlights from the report, which Fortune’s resident Apple (AAPL) guru Philip Elmer-DeWitt live blogged, include iPhone 6 sales reaching 74 million units, iPad sales falling by double digits and the Apple Watch being scheduled hit reach store shelves in April.

Here’s a collection of some of the best tweets about Apple from Fortune and others from around the web.

From Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt:

Raw data: Apple’s $18 billion quarter is the biggest ever http://t.co/uRzxDMmj9J

— Philip Elmer-DeWitt (@philiped) January 28, 2015

Canalys: Apple takes top spot in China for first time in smart phones, followed by Xiaomi, Samsung and Huawei. http://t.co/w2reRLE1vq$AAPL

— Philip Elmer-DeWitt (@philiped) January 27, 2015

$AAPL’s fiscal Q1’15 earnings could be the biggest in U.S. corporate history — bigger than Exxon’s $15 billion Q2’08 https://t.co/9EiXS6bPxX

— Philip Elmer-DeWitt (@philiped) January 27, 2015

From Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky:

A few thoughts on Apple's blowout quarter via @FortuneMagazinehttp://t.co/pHxxREMn70

— Adam Lashinsky (@adamlashinsky) January 28, 2015

From The New York Times’ Farhad Manjoo:

https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/560193817450520576

From English actor and comedian David Schneider:

Typical Apple. They announce their best quarterly profit ever. Then in a while they'll expect us to get excited about an even better profit.

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) January 28, 2015

From startup CEO Tom Weaver:

@tom_weaver Was going to do one on how many thousandths of a second it takes for Apple to earn your annual income but it was too depressing

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 28, 2015

From Vala Afshar, CMO of Extreme Networks:

#Apple has $178 billion in cash; it could BUY:

Uber
Tesla
Twitter
Netflix
Dropbox
SnapChat
Airbnb
SpaceX

and still have $20 billion left.

— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) January 28, 2015

Storyful contributed to this report.

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Benjamin Snyder is Fortune's managing editor, leading operations for the newsroom.

Prior to rejoining Fortune, he was a managing editor at Business Insider and has worked as an editor for Bloomberg, LinkedIn and CNBC, covering leadership stories, sports business, careers and business news. He started his career as a breaking news reporter at Fortune in 2014.

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