Apple remains the top, even without Steve Jobs

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Apple remains the top, even without Steve Jobs

The U.S. computer group Apple announced Tuesday, January 24, the results “records” in the first quarter of fiscal 2012 offset with profits and quarterly sales the highest he has ever known, exceeding expectations Wall Street . The action soared by 8% to 454 dollars, about 23 hours in electronic trading after the official close of trading on Wall Street. Profit more than doubled over one year to $ 13.1 billion during the last three months of the year. Per share, this represents 13.87 dollars while analysts were betting on average 10.08 dollars.

The turnover is much higher than expected, with an increase of 73% over one year to 46.3 billion, while analysts were only waiting for 38.85 billion dollars. The manufacturer California welcomes the “highest sales ever recorded” phone 4S iPhone, iPad tablets and computers. “The group has sold 37.04 million iPhones during the quarter, an increase of 128% volume over one year ” , he says in a statement. The chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer said during a conference call with analysts that the iPhone 4S, launched in October, was particularly boosted sales of its smartphones.

Apple also sold 15 million iPad during the period under review, a surge of 111% year on year, 5.2 million Macs (+ 26%) and 15.4 million iPods (less than 21%) . “We are delighted with our outstanding results and our record sales” , said Tim Cook , Apple‘s CEO, adding that the company, which lost a few months ago the legendary co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs , enjoyed ” an incredibly strong momentum, with new fantastic products in the pipeline ” . The iPad has also proved “particularly popular during the holiday season” , welcomed leaders from Apple, noting that the tablet was increasingly adopted by the world of business and education.

Asked about competition from cheaper tablets, such as reading light Kindle, Amazon, he found that “the shelf to limited functions such as electronic reading lights are not included in the same category as the iPad” . “I do not think that someone with an iPad would be content ” of a product dedicated to a single function, he added. “We will continue to innovate and we fully believe we will be able to compete with any tablet to be released in the future ” , he said.

Oppenheimer added that the launch of the tablet Multifunction Fire Kindle from Amazon, which it aims to compete with the iPad, had “no impact” on sales of it. Finally, he warned that the floods in Thailand and supply problems that they were trained to induce the “higher purchasing costs for hard disks” used by the group in its products.

Forecasts of Apple also exceeded the expectations of Wall Street in the second quarter of its fiscal year, the manufacturer expects to apple $ 32.5 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $ 8.50 , while the market was counting on 32 billion dollars and 8.03. The group, which generated more than $ 17.5 billion of cash during the quarter, is now faced with a conundrum: what to do with his money? “We are actively discussing how we can use our liquidity, but have nothing to announce at this time ” , said its chief financial officer.