A few tens of minutes ago the company Apple announced its financial results for Q3 2012 and we are talking about a substantial increase in profit and sales compared to the same period last year, but a decrease compared to the previous fiscal quarter. Apple sold 28% more iPhones, 84% more iPad tablets, 2% more Macs and 10% fewer iPods, but profit and revenue increased significantly compared to the same period of last year. As Tim Cook and other members of the management team of the Apple company discuss in an audio conference all the results presented this evening, and below you have listed the most important news mentioned by them.
- YOY growth of 23%, 6.5b increase over last June quarter. Growth attributed to strong iPad and iPhone growth;
- 4 million balance. 2% YOY growth from last June quarter. He's talking about new MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs.
- Best quarter ever for education sales.
- 6.8 million balance in the quarter. Ahead of Apple's expectations. iPod touch over half of all iPods sold. iPod has 70% market share of Mp3 players.
- 1.8 billion dollars in sales thanks to music, apps, etc. Oppenheimer talking iTunes Store expansion in Asia.
- 14 million iTunes U app downloads.
- Apple has iPhone distribution with 250 carriers in 100 countries.
- 16.2 billion dollars in iPhone accessory sales.
- iOS ecosystem growing. 650,000 apps. 225,000 for iPad
- iOS surpasses 410 million cumulative sales. 45 million in June Q
- Apple Retail. 4.1 billion. up 17% year ago. Growth fueled by record iPad, strong iPhone.
- 50% of Macs sold were to new customers.
- 9 new stores. 372 stores in total. 123 outside US.
- 83 million visitors. 12% up.
- 5.5 billion dollars paid to App Store developers.
- 150 million iCloud users.
- Cash: $117 BILLION. Up $7 BILLION. 81 BILLION offshore.
- Apple expects Q4 2012 revenues of $34 billion.
- Amazing new products in the pipeline.
