Apple’s 2013 Third Quarter Earnings Call by the Numbers
Earlier today Apple announced its 2013 third quarter earnings, which included $35.3 billion in revenue and 31.2 million iPhones sold. Below are some more numbers from their earnings call (via MorningStar):
- iPhone 5 remains the most popular iPhone
- iTunes revenue generated $4 billion in the June quarter
- Cumulative App Store downloads have surpassed 50 billion; developers have been paid $11 billion
- 900,000 App Store apps; 375,000 for the iPad
- 320 million iCloud accounts
- 240 million Game Center accounts
- Over 900 billion iMessages sent; over 125 billion photos uploaded; customers have received over 8 trillion push notifications
- 408 total Apple retail stores; 156 outside the USA; 23 total new stores this year
- Apple retail income: $667 million; average $10.1 million per store; 84 million visitors during the quarter
- Cash pile: $146.6 billion
As for the most important part of today’s announcements, was the press release, where Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, again stated the following:
We are really excited about the upcoming releases of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, and we are laser-focused and working hard on some amazing new products that we will introduce in the fall and across 2014.
Cook pumped these same expectations during the previous 2013 Q2 press release as the timeframe for new ‘amazing’ products. Rumours have recently attributed the launch of the iPhone 5S, ‘budget’ iPhone, fifth generation iPad and second generation iPad mini this fall. Stay tuned, folks (and get your wallets ready).