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iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond: News: Apple sells 11.05 million iPods, 6.89 million iPhones in Q4
MacDailyNews: Apple bulldozes Street: $1.26 EPS; Mac sales reach all-time high of 2.5m, 6.9m iPhones, 11m iPods
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence: Liveblogging the Earnings call...
News: Apple sells 11.05 million iPods, 6.89 million iPhones in Q4
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
Reporting its fourth-quarter financial results today, Apple said it sold 11.05 million iPods during the quarter — more than an eight percent increase compared to the same quarter last year, and slightly more than the 11.011 million sold in Q3. It also sold 6.89 million iPhones in the quarter, up from 1.119 million in the year-ago quarter and an artificially-low 717,000 in Q3 2008. The company posted revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per diluted share, compared with revenue of $6.22 billion and net quarterly profit of $904 million, or ...
Apple bulldozes Street: $1.26 EPS; Mac sales reach all-time high of 2.5m, 6.9m iPhones, 11m iPods
MacDailyNews —
... revenue of $8.05 billion, or 29.4% YOY sales growth. Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, had provided guidance of "about $7.8 billion" and earnings per diluted share of "about $1.00.” In accordance with the subscription accounting treatment required by GAAP, the Company recognizes revenue and cost of goods sold for iPhone and Apple TV over their economic lives. Adjusting GAAP sales and product costs to eliminate the impact of subscription accounting, the corresponding non-GAAP measures ( more info ) for the quarter are $11.68 billion of “Adjusted Sales” and $2.44 billion of ...
Liveblogging the Earnings call...
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
Yeah it is kinda sad, I am going to be liveblogging the Apple Q4 Earnings call over at Computerworld. Hit the Semi-Live-Panel.
Also see the Apple report:
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
6.9 Million iPhones Sold Mac Sales Reach All-Time High
CUPERTINO, California—October 21, 2008—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or ...
The numbers game: liveblogging Q4 2008 earnings
MacUser —
... I am buzzing with excitement over Apple’s Q4 financial conference, which gets underway in just a short while. Or maybe that’s interference from my iPhone. Or a swarm of angry bees. So many potential sources. Anyway, as we get ready to liveblog the heck out of the Peter Oppenheimer and Tim Cook Power Hour over at the mothership (link below), here are the numbers from Apple’s own press release. ...
Apple: Almost 7 Million iPhones Sold in Q4
Digital Daily —
... forecasts and then exceeds them, appears to have done so once again. The company posted revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, quite a bit more than the profit of $1 a share on $7.8 billion in revenue it had forecast. It shipped 2,611,000 Macs during the quarter and nearly 7 million iPhones — 6,892,000 to be exact. “Apple just reported one of the best quarters in its history, with a spectacular performance by the iPhone—we sold more phones than RIM,” CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement. “We don’t yet know how this economic downturn will affect ...
BOOM! Apple Officially Smashes Goal of Selling 10 Million iPhones
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... to outperform, the stock could end up being a “buy” for many people. If Apple can hold out for another 18 months, through what is inevitably going to be a tough 2009, shares of the Cupertino tech firm could stabilize and more accurately reflect the company’s revenue and premium market position.
Apple’s earnings releases can be found in the Investor Relations section of their website, and today’s Press Release specifically can be found here.
Apple Q4 Earnings Call Liveblog
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Topline results from Apple: 1.26 per share on revenue of 7.9B, net quarterly profit of 1.14B. 34.7 % gross margin. 2.6M Macs shipped in the quarter, 11M iPods, 6.9M iPhones. Sold more phones than RIM (!). ...
How To Compete In A Downturn? Check Out Apple's Quarterly Earnings
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek —
... Posted by: Peter Burrows on October 21 Help, I think I’m caught in a reality distortion field—or am I? I’m talking, of course, about Apple’s quarterly numbers announced today. Yes, they missed analysts expectations slightly on the top line, and pronounced the fourth quarter outlook as “foggy.” But talk about being prepared for the downturn. As if $24.5 billion in the bank wasn’t enough of a buffer, the company cranked up its earnings even as rivals such as ...
Apple Q408 results out: 6.9m iPhones sold, record Mac sales
Engadget —
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Apple up 11 after Q4 conference call
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Apple Financial Apple shares were higher by over 11 points in after-hours trading following a very positive Q4 conference call where the company announced a profit of $1.26 per diluted share.
As we noted in our liveblog earlier, Apple posted a profit of $1.14 billion on revenues of $7.9 billion for the quarter. The company also said it had sold 2.6 million Macs, 11 million iPods, and 6.8 million iPhones in the three months ending September 27. It's safe to say we're past the 10 million mark for iPhone unit sales. ...
Apple Throttles Past 10 Million iPhones Sold
iPhone Savior —
... for G1 will be steep as Google and T-Mobile attempt to breathe in some very rarefied air. It will take a significant amount of time, product updates, rebuilds and disasterous iPhone mishaps for the G1 to get close enough to shovel any snow around iPhone's peak. RIM can offer a laundry list of excuses why competing with iPhone has been nothing short of miserable. Here's a clue, RIM sold 6.1 units compared to Apple selling 6.9 million. Nuff said? [read entire Apple Press Release] ...
iPhones, Macs Give Apple a Strong Q4 2008
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Last year at this time, I commented that the Mac had made a comeback as a major contributor to Apple's bottom line after several quarters where the iPod dominated the balance sheets. With today's release of the company's Q4 2008 financial results, the Mac is joined decisively by the iPhone, which, including sales to date, has now surpassed Apple's goal of selling 10 million units during 2008. ...
Yet another excellent Quarter for Apple
HardMac.com —
Source : AppleLast night Apple posted the financial results of the last quarter. They are again very good with a turnover of of 7,9 billion dollars and a profit of 1,14 billion.
They sold over the period 2.611.000 Mac, which represents a growth of 21% compared to the same period last year, 11.052.000 iPod, and 6.892.000 iPhones. Note that this last figure allows them to easily pass by RIM.
A very in-form Steve Jobs declared that even though he did not know where the crisis would carry them, they had the strongest product range in their history, ...
Apple Blows Past 10 Million iPhone Target
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... 3G sold 6.9 million units in just one quarter. That is, in just three months it has already shifted more units than the 1G iPhone did in its lifetime.
If those numbers continue as we head into the holiday season (and they should -- the holiday quarter is traditionally Apple's strongest on portable devices) then it looks certain that Apple wil sell more than 10 million iPhone 3Gs this year. Probably more than 15 million in just six months. How's that for meeting targets?
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Apple Reports Better Than Expected Profits, Warns of Slowdown
Gearlog —
... Apple today issued the financial results for the fiscal 2008 fourth quarter. The results where better than many expected, thanks in no small part to the continued success of the company's iPhone, but Apple, joined on the call by Steve Jobs in the first time since 2000, warned that the company's success was likely to slow down in the near future. ...
Apple Announces Q4 Results: “Mac Sales Reach All-Time High”
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
[image] Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter. The company posted revenue of $7.9 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion. Apple’s gross margin was 34.7 percent, up from 33.6 percent last year. International sales made up 41 percent of Q4’s revenue. The company shipped 2,611,000 Apple computers during the quarter, accounting for 21 percent unit growth and 17 percent revenue growth from last year. This could only mean that more consumers are purchasing Macs. “We’re very pleased to have grown revenue 35 percent and to have generated ...
Apple's "real" earnings grew a staggering 124.6% in Q4
AppleInsider —
... measures in place today, Apple could only boast a 23% growth rate in GAAP earnings. The table below compares Q4 2007 adjusted earnings to Q4 2008 adjusted earnings. Notice that Apple grew its operating income at a pace of 149.2%. This is a direct result of the revenue growth rate and gross margin percentage growth rate significantly outpacing the growth rate of operating expenses. Method for Arriving at Non-GAAP based Adjusted Earnings for Q4 2007 Since Apple didn't start releasing adjusted earnings results until this past Tuesday, I had to reconstruct Apple's fiscal Q4 2007 ...
We have nothing to fear from iPhone or Android: Microsoft
jkOnTheRun —
... Microsoft has positioned Windows Mobile quite nicely in the enterprise but it seems these days that the buzz is in the consumer space. Apple's recent revelations that they've sold 6.8 million iPhone 3Gs in a quarter and the release of the first Android phone have moved the attention squarely into the consumer space. In a recent ...
Analyst: Apple may cut iPhone 3G production by 40 percent
Macworld —
... , citing an uncertain economic environment. Apple said it expects revenue of between $9 and $10 billion during the current quarter; the company rang up $9.6 billion in sales in that same quarter a year ago. “Looking ahead, visibility is low and forecasting is challenging, and as a result we are going to be prudent in predicting the December quarter,” the company said in a press release .
Apple And Microsoft Earnings Are Near Equal
WebProNews Feed —
[image] A friend sent me this link comparing revenue, profit, and cash positions for Microsoft and Apple. I almost fell off my chair when reading this data from Microsoft s and Apple s most recent quarterly filing: Seriously, when did this happen??? I mean, I knew Apple was doing well, but I d taken the time to compare their financials versus Microsoft. Wow. Nice work Team Apple! Next, via Matt Asay, Gizmodo is reporting that the new MacBooks will prevent Jailbroken iPhone and iPod devices. It seems that the culprit is ...
Letting Apple into the enterprise isn’t easy
Macworld —
... provide detailed lists of changes every time they released a device,” Dulaney says. “That’s not something Apple does today. They want to do just enough to get past the enterprise barriers involved.” While Apple will support the kinds of customers it wants to have, like Disney or Nike, Dulaney says, “if you’re talking Ford Motor Co., I’m not sure that’s in the cards.” Not that Dulaney blames Apple; after all, he says, it’s certainly fulfilling its commitment to stockholders through its current efforts , and “the enterprise market takes time and effort,” he says. While ...
Businessweek’s Hesseldahl blows it again: Misreports Apple’s total iPhone sales since 2007 debut
MacDailyNews —
... . Add the two together and Apple has sold 13.016 million total iPhone units since the device's debut in 2007 ( Apple sold 6.892 million units alone in fiscal Q408 , ended September 27, 2008). Full article ...
Apple Sold Twice As Many iPhones As Macs Last Quarter. And It’s Closing The Gap On iPod Sales Too
TechCrunch —
... And it nearly was the record for iPhones sold in a quarter, which happened in Q4 last year, with almost 6.9 million iPhones sold thanks to the full brunt of the iPhone 3G sales. Again, these new Q3 2009 numbers only include a few weeks of iPhone 3GS sales. ...
