Apple Posts Quarterly Results. You Can Guess The Rest

It has to be the easiest post to write: Four times a year, Apple posts their quarterly results, and each time it is a record quarter, and the company has brought in a boatload of money. The latest results are no different, with Apple reporting $24.67 billion in revenue for the Jan-Mar quarter, along with net profit of $5.99 billion.

Of note, iPhone sales were up 151 percent compared to the year-ago quarter, and Mac sales continue to outpace the industry with growth of 28% compared to a 3% decline for the PC industry as a whole.

You can read the full results here, but suffice to say, Apple made a bunch of stuff, then a bunch of people bought it.

Apple has a record quarter. Just this once.

In what is quickly becoming a quarterly tradition, Apple has posted record revenue and sales numbers for their previous quarter (Oct-Dec). what kind of numbers are we talking about? How about $6 billion in net quarterly profit for the quarter. Yes, profit. The same quarter last year brought in "just" $3.38 billion in profit. Oh, and there were 7 million iPads sold, 16.24 million iPhones, and 19.45 million iPods. 

It was, a good quarter. Full press release here.

Another Quarter, Another Record

Apple's financial results for Q1 (Oct-Dec '09) of 2010 are in. And while there are plenty of number to crunch, just know this: Apple had $3.38 billion in profit on $15.68 billion revenue, which is well above Apple's own estimates and the estimates of analysts. Oh, and gross margin was up to 40.9%. And the other big headline: iPhone sales doubled compared to the same quarter in the previous year.

One thing that stuck out in the quarterly earnings call, was the not-so-hidden enthusiasm for "Apple's latest creation" on Wednesday. This is Apple after all, so there weren't any details of course, but there was just something in their voices... Like knowing what the kids are getting for Christmas, that gives us hope that whatever is announced Wednesday will be at least half as good as rumors would imply.

You can listen to the earnings call replay here, or get into the nitty gritty here.

Forget Flash, How About Quicktime on the iPhone

I know it sounds crazy at first... After all, can't the iPhone play QuickTime. Well, yes, some of it. If you navigate to websites with embedded Quicktime (A small portion of sites, but that's for another blog entry) you'll find some that have QuickTime that plays fine. As a matter of fact, for awhile, a site I previously worked on had functioning QuickTime clips, despite me not doing anything to them. Meanwhile sites like lynda.com cannot currently have their QT clips played on the phone.

Yes, they can tweak some settings to make it work on their end, but it makes a lot more sense to have Apple make Quicktime playback ubiquitous on the iPhone. It's their own technology after all! Even the Apple website isn't immune. As I tuned into the quarterly results conference call, I had to go on the road. So I thought, maybe, just maybe, the iPhone would be able to stream that QT content. Nope. The above message stating the iPhone version would be available later via iTunes. Apple, do you want QuickTime/h.264 to be a standard, or not? 

The iPhone's QuickTime playback capability could be more accurately described as iTunes paid content playback. Is that by accident?

Recession? What Recession? Apple Has Record Quarter

Apple's quarterly results are out, and they are staggering. Here's the full rundown, but the short story is, it was a record quarter for profit. A record quarter. Now. WOW!