14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday, Apple announced its financial results for the fiscal 2007 first quarter, and I am sure you would like to find out more about this subject, since Apple's evolution looks rock solid so far, and the reasons are coming up right now...
On the 30th of December, last year, the fiscal 2007 first quarter ended with record revenue of 7.1 billion dollars for Apple, with a record quarterly profit of 1 billion, or 1.14$ per diluted share. To get a better idea, compare these figures with 5.7 billion revenue and a net quarterly profit of 565 million...
Since I am not crazy about financial information, but I am really interested in the number of devices sold, it was interesting for me to find out that during this holiday quarter, Apple shipped over 1,6 million Macs and over 21 million iPods, for a growth of 28 percent in Macs and 50 percent in iPods, compared to the same quarter, one year ago. Even more interesting is that the number of notebooks sold surpassed the desktop systems with 50 percent, and the overall number of Macs sold proved to be much higher than even Apple had projected internally!
Compared to last year, Apple has over 7500 worldwide distribution points, which means that in the last 12 months, they opened over 1500 new ones. Compared to the PC market growth, Mac sales grew three times more, and on the long run, Macs outgrown PCs for 8 of the last 9 quarters!
Additional information that came out yesterday about the iPhone is that we'll get more details right before its launch in summer, so the road is open for more rumors; until then...
Other than these, there are a lot of numbers to crunch for people really interested in statistics, but these are now part of the past, and I think that a year from this now, we will be amazed by the evolution of the iPhone, Apple TV and, of course, the next generation iPods. Stay tuned!