{"id":28795,"date":"2012-04-24T18:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T22:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=28795"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:55:20","slug":"apple-record-march-quarter-sales-of-iphones-ipads-and-macs-net-profit-increases-94-year-over-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/04\/24\/apple-record-march-quarter-sales-of-iphones-ipads-and-macs-net-profit-increases-94-year-over-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple: Record March quarter sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs; net profit increases 94% year-over-year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2012\/04\/24Apple-Reports-Second-Quarter-Results.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Apple reports second quarter results<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Record March quarter sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs | Net Profit Increases 94% Year-over-Year<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">CUPERTINO, California\u2014April 24, 2012\u2014Apple\u00ae today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $24.7 billion and net profit of $6.0 billion, or $6.40 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 47.4 percent compared to 41.4 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Company sold 35.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 88 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 11.8 million iPads during the quarter, a 151 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4 million Macs during the quarter, a 7 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.7 million iPods, a 15 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Addendum on 4\/25:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The following graphs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/apple-huge-quarter-in-charts.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Apple&#8217;s Huge Quarter in Charts<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from readwriteweb.com by Dan Frommer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/files\/styles\/610_0\/public\/fields\/24apple-mar12-earnings-email.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/files\/fields\/apple-mar12-earnings-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple reports second quarter results Record March quarter sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs | Net Profit Increases 94% Year-over-Year Excerpt: CUPERTINO, California\u2014April 24, 2012\u2014Apple\u00ae today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.6 billion, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-28795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28802,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions\/28802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}