5:11 PM
Apple had an amazing fiscal first quarter of 2012 (which is the last 3 months of 2011), with 37.04 mil iPhones and 15.43 mil iPads sold! Compared with last year, iPhone sales were up 128% and iPad sales were up 111%. Revenue was $46.44 bil compared to $26.75 in the year-ago quarter, and net profit was $13.06 bil compared to $6 bil in the year-ago quarter. The iPhone and iPad didn't exist 5 years ago and are now 72% of Apple's revenue. In the previous quarter (July-Sep 2011) Apple sold 17.07 mil iPhones and had $28.27 bil in revenue and next quarter (Jan-Mar 2012) they expect $32.5 bil revenue:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/apple-smashes-sales-record-37m-iphone-sales-fiscal-1q/2012-01-24
Kanter said that the iPhone has a greater share of the US smartphone market than Android, saying that Apple has 44.9% while Android has 44.8%. Nielsen and the NPD Group released results that showed Apple was slightly behind Android, but Kanter is the first research firm to have Apple ahead:
http://gigaom.com/apple/apple-pulls-just-ahead-of-google-in-u-s-smartphones/
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/apple-smashes-sales-record-37m-iphone-sales-fiscal-1q/2012-01-24
Kanter said that the iPhone has a greater share of the US smartphone market than Android, saying that Apple has 44.9% while Android has 44.8%. Nielsen and the NPD Group released results that showed Apple was slightly behind Android, but Kanter is the first research firm to have Apple ahead:
http://gigaom.com/apple/apple-pulls-just-ahead-of-google-in-u-s-smartphones/