Successes Apple

Apple announced financial results for the third quarter of 2010 financial year ended 26 June 2010 record revenues of U.S. $ 15.7 billion and net quarterly profit - 3.25 billion dollars, or 3.51 per diluted share. Company's revenue for the same quarter the previous year amounted to 9.73 billion dollars and net quarterly profit - 1.83 billion, or 2.01 per diluted share. Gross margin was 39.1 percent, which exceeds the figures for the same quarter last year (40.9 percent). International sales accounted for 52 percent of quarterly revenue.

For the quarter, Apple sold 3.47 million PCs Mac - 33 percent more than in the corresponding quarter last year. The company sold 8.4 million iPhone - 61 per cent more than in the corresponding quarter last year. Quarterly iPod sales totaled 9.41 million units, up 8 per cent less than in the corresponding quarter last year. The company began selling iPad during the quarter, total sales of which amounted to 3.27 million