Apple announced the results of the fourth fiscal quarter:
The company's total revenue amounted to $ 6.22 billion and quarterly profit of $ 904 million, or $ 1.01 per share. The cost of Apple has never been so great.
Sold 2,164,000 Macs (817,000 desktop machines and 1,347,000 laptops), which is a 34 percent increase compared with the third quarter of 2007, and exceeded the third quarter by 400,000 units. Apple announced that this is the best “beginning of the school year” period in the company's history. 8,700 points of sale today are Mac and the growth for 2000 for the year The share in total revenues was 50%.
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The company sold 10,200,000 iPods during this period, which is 17% more than last year during this period. Today it is 26% of total revenues. Total has already sold more than 120 million iPod. iTunes is today the third on the market in its segment. The number of points of sales rose to 40,000.
The quarterly iPhone sales are 1,119,000, and for the whole of 2007, 1,389,000. That's 1.9 percent of total revenues in 3 months and a couple of days. Apple is very pleased with the price drop on the iPhone. Together with SalesForce.com, they are working to monetize the device for business.
About 250,000 iPhones were purchased for unlock (this is 17%), most after the price reduction.
By the end of the year they plan to sell 10 million units. It took 2 years to sell 1.4 million iPods; the iPhone did it in three months.
Confirmed plans for the withdrawal of the iPhone in 2008, the year. And for now there is no reason to think that the iPhone is “r” selling iPod. If they manifest, then this will be reported in a quarter. By the way, the company will not focus on selling the 3 millionth iPhone.
“Apple ends the fiscal year with $ 15.4 billion free and without debt,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO. “Looking at the first fiscal quarter of 2008, we expect the company's revenue to grow to $ 9.2 billion and increase per share to $ 1.42.”
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