Apple has announced its second quarter results, showing $7.51bn revenues (up 43%) and profits of $1.05bn (up 36%) - compared to $5.26bn and $770m the year-ago quarter.
Sales of Macintosh computers were seriously up - to 2.289m (up 51% units, 54% revenues) while iPod sales grew much more slowly, to 10.64m (1% units, but 6% revenues). And Apple ended the quarter with even more cash, $19.4bn. (Slightly smaller since it bought chipmaker PA Semi.)
The number of Macs sold was actually smaller than the previous quarter, but that's not surprising - the earlier quarter, October-December, includes Christmas. The revenue's less than the earlier quarter, which was $9.6bn. But again, that was Christmas. People buy stuff then. iPhones sold: 1.7m, generating $378m with deferred revenue (which will come onto the books later) of $1.93bn.
Over to Steve Jobs: "With over $17 billion in revenue for the first half of our fiscal year, we have strong momentum to launch some terrific new products in the coming quarters."
New products, huh?
But let's have some more, courtesy of Macworld, which listened in to the conference call with analysts. Music was 36% of revenue (wow, that's a lot); share of the US MP3 market 73%.
Tim Cook, the chief financial officer, is confident of hitting the target of 10m iPhones sold for the year (that is, 2008). Unlocking of iPhones "remains a significant number". The iPhone 2.0 software will come in "late" June, it seems.
And that's about it, to be honest. Tell us if you find any more informative information. There's also the audio if you want to listen to that. Requires Apple's QuickTime - are you surprised?
