Guest post by Apple reported first-quarter earnings significantly higher than analysts had expected coming off a disappointing holiday season for most tech companies, but provided its usual conservative guidance. For the three-month period ended December 27, Apple recorded $10.2 billion in revenue, as compared with $9.6 billion a year ago, and net income of $1.6 billion, as compared with $1.58 billion a year ago. That translates into earnings per share of $1.78, far more than the $1.39 in earnings per share that analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial had expected. Expected revenue was $9.75 billion.
I hope other companies see this as motivation to create thought-out, user friendly products that while they may not have EVERY feature possible, they work and are easy to manage.
“Apple sold 2.5 million Macs during the quarter, 22 million iPods, and 4.3 million iPhones. ”
Missed the marks and their own goals on Macs. (1)
Missed the marks and their own goals on iPods.
Missed the marks and their on goals on iPhones.
Steve Jobs is out for a while …
Beside Apple as a tendency to account it’s own vendor/retailers as sales.
(1) 2.5 million Mac for 6 products :
1) Macbook
2) Macbook Air
3) MacBook Pro
4) Mac Mini
5) iMac
6) Mac Pro
Around 400 000 per products. they have 230 stores , they seem unable to push 2000 unit per their own store.
Don’t get me wrong it’s impressive numbers , but they don’t show the true reality. Does it mean that all other product did not make any sales either ?
Personnaly I was expecting an iPhone explosion in sales ( they lowered the price ) and people buying new Macbook , seem people replaced their old iPhone with 3g. MacBook did not really drive sales. You also have to take into account it’s holydays sales they should be much higher.
Other than being a shareholder, why would you expect any kind of explosion of iPhone sales in this economy? There continues to be record numbers of unemployment figures and companies failing.
“Around 400 000 per products. they have 230 stores , they seem unable to push 2000 unit per their own store. ”
This argument does not make any sense, do you realize that?
“MacBook did not really drive sales. ”
Yes sure, Apple’s laptop sales for the quarter were up 34 percent year-over-year.
And by the way “their own stores” (on street) have generated 1.74 billions of dollars, in average 7 millions of dollars per store!!!
any idea when apple will produce macs based round the new inel core i7?