Apple last quarter, much less iPhones sold. That has the company disclosed at the presentation of the quarterly figures. The number of sold iPads rose significantly, while sales of iPods further decreased.
The number of sold iPhones is lower than in the previous quarter when it sold Apple a little more than 20 million of its smartphones, compared to now 17.1 million. It is unclear whether Apple still is the market leader in the field of smartphoneverkopen: Samsung and Nokia sold in the previous quarter, similar numbers, but still have no sales figures published.
The decline in iPhone sales would have come, because a lot of people have been waiting for a successor of the iPhone 4, so suspect Apple. When the sales are the sales figures of the iPhone 4S is still not added. That was during the past weekend, when he was in the sale, more than four million sold.
The sales of Apple’s tablet iPad is still in the elevator. The hardwaremaker sold 11.1 million copies of his tablet and that is more than in the previous quarter, when there were 9.2 million were sold. The sale of iPods was exactly backward: there were 6.6 million units sold of Apple’s music player, which this year ten years in the shops. That there were last quarter, 7.5 million.
Apple saw its desktops and laptops, much more will be sold: in total, 4.9 million of over the counter, a quarter more than last quarter. That is probably due to new releases and the presentation of OS X Lion, the new desktop operating system from Apple. The presentation of the quarterly figures was the first without founder Steve Jobs. Jobs, who until the end of August was its ceo, passed away two weeks ago from the effects of pancreatic cancer, in 2004 when he was found.
The company from Cupertino has reported a turnover of 28.7 billion dollars and a profit of $ 6.6 billion. The revenue remained similar, but the profit fell. Apple warned since last quarter: the third quarter is traditionally a less good quarter. The company expects that in the fourth quarter due to the release of the iPhone 4S and the holiday season the sales will attract.
