Apple today announced the official figures of its latest quarter, and the upcoming OS X Lion is rumored to be available starting Wednesday.
Apple posted a profit of $7.31 billion for the quarter ended June 19th, surpassing expectations of the industry across all its segments. All its critical numbers including revenue, profit and margins were significantly up from last year. In the regard to the same, Apple co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, said in a statement:
We’re thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenue up 82 percent and profits up 125 percent. Right now, we’re very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to our users this fall.
Here are some sales numbers to ponder upon:
- iPhone sales for the quarter were 20.34 million, up 142 per cent from last year.
- iPad sales for the quarter were 9.25 million.
- Mac sales for the quarter were a record 3.95 million, up from 3.47 million last year.
- iPod sales were the only ones that declined from the previous year, standing at 7.54 million, down 20 percent from the 9.41 million units sold last year.
While Apple has not yet offered a specific launch date for the Mac OS X Lion, AppleInsider reports that this upcoming OS X updated will be available starting Wednesday at 8:30 AM Eastern Time. The Cupertino based company, however, did not specify a concrete date for iOS 5, but simply took its previous line, saying that it would launch this fall.
