Apple boosts iPhone sales hardly

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Apple boosts iPhone sales hardly

Of our Apple group has the paragraph of his Kassenschlagers iPhone could barely to increase. Compared to the previous year, broke down the Numbers drastically.

In the three months before Christmas were EUR 74.8 million devices have been sold, said the Californian group. This seems at first glance much of the increase amounts to 0.4 percent. This is as low as never since the launch of the iPhone nine years ago.

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A year ago, the company still increased its sales by 46 percent succeeded. Apple get now signs of economic weakness in China to be felt, said chief financial officer Luca Maestri the bad Numbers.

In China, there were still double-digit growth

In the past quarter Apple sales in the people’s Republic but, after a 14 percent increase. Due to the good result in China, reads the balance, but then positive. Overall, climbed to the profit of the US Corporation by 1.7 per cent to a record level of 75,87 billion dollars. The profit increased by 1.9 per cent to 18,36 billion dollars, which is also a record. A large part of the gain attributed to the iPhone.

The share showed up in the post-trading extremely volatile. A quarter of an hour after the announcement of the balance sheet was again unchanged. Since October is the paper by more than ten per cent.

Samsung made it much better

Last had already the competitor of Samsung Electronics, an unexpectedly weak Gewinnplus ago. The world have more and more people have a Smartphone, you buy but not every year a new model.

haz/mak (rtr, afp)