Apple has announced a raft of figures almost all in the positives at its earnings call tonight. One of the most impressive figures is the announcement that Apple has sold 160m iOS devices cumulatively. That’s one iOS device to the entire population of the UK more than two and a half times over. Click through for more mind boggling figures form what must have been a particularly satisfying earnings call for the folks from Cupertino.
Apple also announced the iPad sold 7.3m (the equivalent of more than one to every person living in London), plus nine billion app downloads from the App Store, and 16.2m iPhones sold in this quarter.
Apple also sold 19.4m iPods, sales of which fell overall, although iPod touch bolstered sales with 27% increase in sales. Apple sold 4.13m Macs: a 23% growth on the same quarter last year, and the 19th consecutive year of growth in Mac sales.
Overall Peter Oppenheimer, Apple CFO, said that for this quarter Apple had 71 percent growth in revenue based on record iPhone, Mac, and iPad sales. Tim Cook also said that Apple has $59.7b in cash, that’s compared to $51b last quarter. Its quarterly profit is $6b.
What to do with all that money?
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