Big Tech earnings have been strong, but Apple is about to answer the thousand-dollar question

While the stock market reactions may not prove it, Big Tech is four-for-four so far this earnings reporting season.

Alphabet Inc. GOOG GOOGL, Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, Meta Platforms Inc. META and Microsoft Corp. MSFT all beat earnings and revenue expectations for the latest quarter, showing, among other things that the advertising market was healthy in the latest quarter and that software spending is holding up.

But…