This evening the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), announced a new fiscal quarter with record sales, revenue and profit, most analysts around the world expecting these results from Cupertino. With over 74 million iPhones sold and revenue of 74 billion dollars, Apple has once again demonstrated how important its products are. In this fiscal quarter, iPhones generated 69% of the total revenue of the American company, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus being the main reason why we are talking about a new sales record for those from Cupertino at the end of 2014.
Now Tim Cook and other Apple managers discuss these financial results, and below you will have the opportunity to see the key points of the conference held in Cupertino. The article will be constantly updated, but if you read it from the iDevice.ro application, you will only see the updates by accessing it from the Safari browser.
- half a billion people visited physical Apple Stores and Apple Store Online;
- 34.000 iPhones were sold every hour in Q4 2014;
- The App Store and Mac App Store generated record revenues;
- over 1 billion iDevices have been sold so far;
- on November 22, the 1 billionth iDevice was sold, an iPhone 6 Plus 64 GB space gray;
- receipts increased by 38% compared to the same period last year;
- Xcode with the new Swift programming language was downloaded 11 million times in the first month of availability;
- 600 developers have implemented HealthKit in their own applications;
- 750 banks and credit unions support Apple Pay;
- Apple Watch is to be launched in April;
- receipts in China increased by 70% compared to the same period last year;
- the cost margin was 39.9%, above Apple's expectations;
- iPhone sales increased by 46% compared to the same period last year;
- iPhone sales doubled in China, Brazil and Singapore compared to 2013;
- 375 operators sell iPhones in 210.000 points of sale, covering 72% of the total number of mobile phone service subscribers;
- the satisfaction rate for iPhones is 97%;
- iPhones account for 53% of all Internet traffic in North America;
- sales of Macs increased by 14% compared to 2013, generating revenues of 6.9 billion dollars;
- sales of iPad tablets decreased by 4.6 million units compared to 2013;
- the satisfaction rate for iPad tablets is 98%;
- iPad tablets account for 70% of tablet traffic generated in North America;
- Apple paid $25 billion to app developers for the App Store;
- iTunes revenues were 2.6 billion dollars, compared to 2.4 billion in the same period last year;
- 447 Apple stores are open worldwide, 182 being outside the US;
- the monetary reserve of the Apple company is 178 billion dollars, with 22.7 billion dollars more than in the previous fiscal quarter;
- Apple paid out $57 billion in dividends over the past 12 months.
