Mon, 01/25/2010 - 13:55 by
The release is just out, here are the numbers:
- $15.68 billion in revenues vs. 11.88 billion a year ago
- Sold 3.36 million Macintosh computers during the quarter, representing a 33 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.
- Sold 8.7 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 100 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter (but somewhat lower than expected)
- Sold 21 million iPods during the quarter, representing an eight percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter (however iPod Touch sales are up)
Listen in on the earnings webcast at 5 Eastern if you're hungry for more.
Selected bits from the call:
- iPhone in 86 countries now. Sales worth more than $5B in the quarter.
- COO Tim Cook says that "AT&T is a great partner," doesn't take bait to suggest that there will be wider availability for iPhone in US
- Tim Cook: China iPhone sales: 200K units activated to date. "We're building the brand for the long term, we think there's significant potential there."
- Tim Cook: 70% of the Fortune 100 deploying or testing iPhone (in US)
- No comment on Nokia IP litigation
- Tim Cook: "Joy of surprise at our latest creation" re Wednesday product launch
- Tim Cook: re iPhone . . . when we add carriers in markets, growth and share increases
- Apple CFO re Quattro: "We wanted to offer a seamless way for our developers to make more money on their apps, especially those providing free apps."
- CFO Peter Oppenheimer: We work with Google in some areas and compete with them in others. Mobile advertising "is in its infancy."