Tomas Chlebek Those who regularly follow Apple's financial results know that the company is doing very well, and the fact that some of the company's previous records fell again in the last quarter will not be a surprise. This time, Apple published the results for the second calendar and third fiscal quarter, in which the total turnover stopped at 28 billion dollars, the net profit is set at 57 billion.
In the same period last year, it was "only" 15,7 billion dollars in turnover and 3,25 billion dollars in profit. Profit ratios between the US and the world are holding the bar set last time, so sales outside the US generated 62% of the company's profits.
Mac sales increased by 14% compared to last year, iPhone sales by 142%, and iPads sold almost 3 times as much as in the same period last year. Specific numbers mention a 183% increase. Only iPod sales fell, by 20%.
Once again, Apple CEO Steve Jobs commented on the record profits:
"We are thrilled that just last quarter was our most successful quarter in the company's history with an 82% increase in turnover and a full 125% increase in profits. Right now, we're focused and looking forward to making iOS 5 and iCloud available to users this fall.”
There was also a conference call regarding financial results and related matters. The highlights were:
- The highest quarterly turnover and profit, record sales of iPhones and iPads and the highest sales of Macs for the June quarter in the entire history of the company.
- iPods and iTunes still lead the market with iTunes revenue up 36% over last year.
- 57% increase in Mac sales compared to last year overseas
- Sales in Asia increased almost fourfold compared to last year
- iPhone sales are up 142% year-over-year, more than double the projected growth of the entire smartphone market, according to IDC
source: macrumors.com
It would be nice if there was an iTunes Store in countries like ours, so iPods wouldn't drop so much…….. hopefully we'll see it someday
our country would not save it. I think there would be a minimum number of Czechs buying music in the iTunes store. Czechs don't buy music, they steal it. The older generation, on the other hand, is more likely to buy a CD in a store and doesn't even know the mp3 format...
It's true that they steal your music, but it's partly due to the fact that it's harder to get an mp3 legally than to download it somewhere, if iTunes worked here, I think a lot of people would prefer to download it legally for a few bucks quality and would support the artist, rather than downloading it somewhere black, and it would take time for most people to get used to it. I think so, at least according to myself, why am I not actually going to rob someone I'm a fan of?