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.
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