Days after shares of Apple eclipsed $300 a piece to hit an all-time high, the company is out with its latest earnings report, and with it, another milestone: $20 billion in quarterly revenue.
Specifically, the company brought in sales of $20.34 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter and a net profit of $4.31 billion, both best-ever quarterly performances. Breaking it down by product, Apple reports sales of:
3.89 million Macs, up 27% from the same quarter last year
14.1 million iPhones, up 91% from the same quarter last year
9.05 million iPods, a decline of 11% from the same quarter last year
4.19 million iPads (which wasn’t available last year)
In a statement, CEO Steve Jobs noted that the company has moved past BlackBerry in terms of smartphone sales. “iPhone sales of 14.1 million were up 91 percent year-over-year, handily beating the 12.1 million phones RIM sold in their most recent quarter. We still have a few surprises left for the remainder of this calendar year,” he said.
Among those surprises could be a Verizon iPhone, which looks increasingly likely given the company is set to start offering the iPad on Verizon later this month.