Some Staggering Numbers About Apple
We’ve all heard it before. Apple is amazing, Apple is a valuable company, Apple this and Apple that. Some people are sick of it – but don’t stop reading this post – I will make you interested in Apple stats again! Last quarter, Apple missed their targets for the first time in years. Apple announced their 2012 first quarter revenues and profits, and let’s just say they were HUGE. They almost doubled both their revenues AND profits (via Tech Crunch). How does an already massive company do such a thing?
Their profit is a whopping (I’m running out of adjectives that aren’t ridiculous ) $13.1 billion. By comparison, this is larger than their revenue last quarter – a massive sign of how they are growing and growing. The cash reserves of Apple is $97.6 billion – worth more than every company but 52 on this planet. As for other planets, well, I’m sure Apple is dominating them, too.
The iPad is still selling well, despite any perceived competition. Amazon’s Kindle was outsold by the iPad by a 3 to 1 ratio, despite being double the price. Walmart, another massive global company, had double the revenue of Apple, but Apple had four times the profit – mind blowing stuff when you think about it (think about it – is your mind blown?). Apple’s profits for last quarter ($13.1 billion) was more than Google’s revenue for last quarter ($10.6 billion). Apple is blowing everyone away – even Hollywood. Hollywood’s gross box office receipts for all of 2011 were $3 billion less than Apple’s profits for the last quarter.
And how can Apple continue to grow? Oh yeah, they just teamed up with textbooks to put iPads in schools and dominate the everyday learning aspect of life. Some numbers, courtesy of iPhone in Canada (which just won the Best Canadian Science and Technology blog – congrats!):
– 140 million downloads from the App Store since Christmas Day
– 90 countries have the iPhone 4S, fastest iPhone launch ever
– 600,000 copies of iBooks Author downloaded so far
– 3 million copies of iTunes U downloaded
– 315 total million total iOS sales; 62 million in last quarter
– 85 million iCloud customers as of today
– 550,000 total apps; 175,000 iPad apps
– $4B paid out cumulatively to developers; $700 million in last quarter alone
– 110 million visitors to Apple Store; 22,000 visitors per store per week
– $97.6 billion in cash; nothing to announce with cash
– Finally revealed: 1.4 million Apple TV2 units sold; 2011 had a total of 2.8 million sold
As Dvice points out, from Oct to Dec 2011, an average of 377,900 new iPhones were sold each day, whereas 371,000 babies are born on average each day. More iPhones than babies?! This is a world that I could get used to!
