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There are now questions over how much of a growth driver they can become for the wider market – that’s perhaps why Tesla is now firmly the flavour of the hour (minute?)Īmazon missed badly on revenue and earnings and the forecast for the current quarter was light on, Apple though had the unwanted distinction this quarter (its 4th for its financial year) which was the first time since April 2016 that the company has failed to beat earnings estimates, and the first time since May 2017 that Apple’s revenues have missed estimates.Īpple got hit (like those big carmakers) by a shortage of computer chips, Amazon by the added costs of handling Covid, supply chain hiccups, a shortage of reliable logistics, higher energy costs and labour shortages, even though it hiked starting pay for hundreds of thousands of new staff to at least $US18 an hour.Īt Apple it was, like the carmakers, an example of the now familiar refrain this year for thousands of companies large and small around the world – the computer chip/labour shortage/logistics problems/inflation and costs/Covid Delta ate our sales, revenues and earnings – but not too much for some, like the big consumer products groups like McDonald’s and Coke.Īnd no, the dog did not steal Apple’s homework or the revenues, it was them pesky semiconductors and associated gizmos. Alphabet (Google), did the best in the quarter and remains relatively untouched at the moment by controversy or allegation (as does Microsoft).Īnd Tesla has emerged as the latest megatech with record sales, revenues and earnings and the surprise 100,000 vehicle order from Hertz rent a car.īut Apple and Amazon squelched investor confidence in the megatechs at the moment, although that will change as we head towards 2022. Microsoft also outperformed in its services, hardware and cloud businesses. Netflix has already revealed a very active 4th quarter slate and announced deals in Spain, Asia and the uK for new programs and facilities.
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Netflix did better with more subscribers and revenues and hit series such as The Squid Game from South Korea which is now the most popular program ever on the streaming service and globally. Most were still good – Amazon though was worse than expected – the worst quarter in four years and while Apple confirmed its immense strength and profitability, it was penalised for missing Wall Street estimates.įacebook – which is renaming itself, Meta – disappointed even though it saw solid rises in revenue and earnings – it was hit to a degree by the changes to Apple’s privacy settings (as was Snap).įacebook is also under pressure from a massive leak of documents from a former staffer that shows the company cared little about user welfare, mistruths and gave special preference to celebrities, governments and politicians and did not monitor posts as it claims it did during elections and other controversies.
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That left a messy megatech grouping at the end of the third quarter. The US megatech sector took two body blows on Thursday with weaker than forecast third quarter performances by the two giants – Apple and Amazon.