61 million iPhones sold in second quarter of the year

folarin okunola

April 28, 2015 9:31 AM

With strong iPhone and Mac sales as well as a wonderful App Store performance, Apple recorded its best Q2 figures with net profit of $13.6 billion from a whopping $58 billion revenue figure.

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Apple has announced financial results for the second quarter of the 2015 fiscal year which ended on March 28.

With strong iPhone and Mac sales as well as a wonderful App Store performance, Apple recorded its best Q2 figures with net profit of $13.6 billion from a whopping $58 billion revenue figure.

The new results easily trump the $10.2 billion profit and $45.5 billion revenue it generated in the same period a year ago. However, this quarters figures don’t still match the all-time best of Q1 which saw Apple sell a little over 74.5 million phones.

In the last quarter, Apple sold 61.2 million iPhones, 12.6 million iPad tablets and 4.5 million Macs. Apple CEO TimCook noted “a higher rate of people switching to iPhone than we’ve experienced in previous cycles.”

The next quarter would interesting from an Apple perspective, with sales of the new AppleWatch and the new 12” RetinaMacbook to look out for. The company says it expects to post revenue of between $46 billion and $48 billion in the upcoming quarter.

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