Apple Announces New Sales and record results

Apple, like IBM, so good. His last quarter of 2008 (ended December 27) has indeed shown a turnover of 10.17 billion dollars (5.7%) for a profit of 1.61 billion dollars (1.9%) . Despite the crisis, these results are the best in the history of Apple.

Sales of Apple during its first quarter fiscal 2009 were as follows.
Sales end 2008:
2 524 000 Mac
22 727 000 iPod
4 363 000 iPhone

These figures, compared with last year, are up slightly for the Mac (9%) and iPod (3%) and very strong growth for the phone from Apple (88%), iPhone 3G requires. They were in effect as follows.
Sales end of 2007:
2 319 000 Mac
22 121 000 iPod
2 315 000 iPhone
Since the advent of the 3G iPhone, Apple has therefore elapsed 11.26 million of its smartphones, including 6.9 million in the previous quarter (higher than the last quarter thus). Since the beginning of the year, have sold nearly 13.7 million iPhone (all generations).

Regarding the Macintosh, the difference between desktops and laptops is growing. Indeed, last year, Apple had elapsed fixed 977 000 computers and 1342 million mobile computers. This time, only 728 000 iMac, Mac Pro and Mac Mini were sold (-25%) against 1796 million MacBook (34%, and new record).

Stabilizing its gross margin to 34.7%, Apple is still very dependent on the United States, with 54% of its sales, however, Europe has released its own game during this quarter saw its sales increase by Apple 30% over three months and 13% on a year (against 19% and 8% for the Americas).

Peter Oppenheimer, the chief financial officer of Apple, the first quarter of 2009 should not be particularly outstanding, with a turnover of between 7.6 and 8 billion

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