Apple on Tuesday recorded a record first quarter profit of $18 billion on $74.6 billion in revenue. These results compare to revenue of $57.6 billion and net profit of $13.1 billion in the year-ago quarter.
Apple said iPhone unit sales of 74.5 million also set a new record. Apple also sold 5.5 million Macs and 21.4 million iPads in the quarter.
International sales accounted for 65 percent of the quarter’s revenue, according to Apple.
“We’d like to thank our customers for an incredible quarter, which saw demand for Apple products soar to an all-time high,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Our revenue grew 30 percent over last year to $74.6 billion, and the execution by our teams to achieve these results was simply phenomenal.”
Looking forward to the second fiscal quarter, Apple said it expects revenue between $52 billion and $55 billion.
Big fucking wow. Meanwhile, the world heads towards oblivion.
nothin´ but fantastic. Congrats Apple!!
Boo Hoo Chump
34,000 iPhones/hr over the quarter.
5.5M Macs
To give you an idea of how many iPhones were sold. They sold 75 million iPhones. The population of France is 66 million.
“To put Apple in context: more than 1% of the world population bought an iPhone in the last quarter.” https://twitter.com/viticci/status/560213265507442688
Dooooooooooooooooooooooomed!
Perhaps, but we’ll be able to take amazing photos of the oblivion and share them with our friends.
A 37.4% increase in net profits. For a company that makes as much money as Apple, that’s truly a Big Fucking Wow. I almost feel your butt-hurt.
Meanwhile Samsung is in free fall. It appears integrity Just Works.
So you’re saying that 99% DIDN’T?!?!?
Dooooooooooooooomed!!!