The important thing to know about the last three calendar month of Apple making money , the results of which were just announced , is that the company did not do as well as the old quarter , but did way better than last year and than pretty much anyone else who acquire and sells mathematical product .
The natural bit , for the quant types : Apple ’s first quartern of 2012 saw $ 39.2 billion in receipts and a net profit of $ 11.6 billion , on sales event of 35.1 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads . All of those figures are well-nigh ( or , in the case of iPad , more than ) double their equivalents in the equivalent quarter of 2011 . And , as per usual , Macs sales were up slightly and iPod sales tumble .
It ’s a dropoff , though , compared to the last three months of the year , but let ’s think back that those month were the all - important holiday period of time , when everyone with ample disposable income give and received iPads because they could n’t think of anything more creative . That was also the first quarter in which the iPhone 4S was useable . So yes , trounce that three month stretch would ’ve taken something a bit more heaven-sent than two week of new iPad sales .
Put another way : this is Apple ’s secondly - large quarter ever . By a seemly leeway . Oh , and now it ’s sit around on $ 110 billion in Johnny Cash .
Apple ’s run to be holding a group discussion call to hash out results ( and perchance shed a little more light on how the new iPad ’s been selling ) at 5 p.m. EST . We ’ll be listening in , if only because we ’d never lose the opportunity to be bathed in Tim Cook ’s sweet , testy , southern drawl . [ Apple ]
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