Apple's quarterly profit II/2011 has almost doubled when the "thirst of consumers for the iPhone and other products bearing the brand name " Apple "is not showing signs of settling down.
Apple's revenue did not suffer much damage by the earthquake in Japan last month as well as temporary CEO Steve Jobs leave for medical treatment.
Yesterday, Apple announced quarterly revenue report I/2011. Accordingly, profit for the quarter of Apple reached 5.99 billion, up 95% compared with 3.07 billion the previous quarter. Revenue rose 83% to $ 24.67 billion, net income increased 41.4% from 38.5%.
Remarkable achievement on the Apple is due to strong sales of iPhones. Start Apple iPhone hit the market four of its home network through Verizon back in February. This is the second network in the U.S. are allowed to distribute the iPhone, after Apple's exclusive contract with AT & T end.
Apple said it sold 18.6 million iPhones in the first quarter of this year, more than doubled from a year ago. This figure is also higher than 15% compared to last year's fourth quarter, usually the strongest period because of Apple fell on Christmas vacation.
Wall Street estimates Apple will sell about 16.5 million iPhones in this quarter. "We have seen sales of the iPhone is very impressive, "said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer, said in an interview.
Apple predicted profit earned per share. Accordingly, the company will have $ 5.03 earnings per share this quarter, up 43.3% from a year ago. Thus, the company grossed about $ 23 billion, up 46% over the same period last year. This figure is lower than predicted by some analysts before but not as low as many experts on Wall Street had feared.
However, in the first quarter of this year, a number of Apple products has not achieved strong sales as Wall Street analysts expected.
Apple said it sold 4.69 million units iPad while Wall Street estimates this number at around 6.2 million units. Apple said the shortage caused by the limited supply concerns than by issues of consumer demand and claims to have sold all of the iPad that it can be produced. Online sales website, Apple confirmed the order will have to wait a second iPad two weeks to be delivered.
Apple also sold 3.76 million Macs this quarter, up 28% over the same period last year. The company launched the next generation MacBook Pro in February 2011 in the past. Meanwhile, iPod sales fell 17% to 9.02 million units.
Speaking about the incident are having with Samsung, Tim Cook said that this is a supplier of critical components, even when it has Apple sued electronics companies from Korea this week with reports Samsung forced violating patents related to iPhone and iPad.
"I hope this strong relationship will be maintained, "said Tim Cook, Apple stressed conditions because it felt Samsung mobile communications division of Samsung has "bypassed" them.
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