Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Apple sells five iPhones and an iPad every second - Reuters - Reuters

MADRID, Apr 24. (Carlos Hergueta / Portaltic) –

Although Apple's profits have declined in the second quarter of its current fiscal year (Q2 2013), can not speak of sales have been low . Here we compare the sales of your main devices over the previous quarter and the same period last year. If we consider the current sales pace, Apple sells five iPhones and an iPad every second .

During the presentation of pure economic results, together with its profits and revenue, the company Apple has unveiled the sales figures their devices star in the second quarter of its fiscal year. In all cases be seen declines over the previous quarter (Q1 2013), but several increases over the same period last year (Q2 2012).

total Apple sold 37.4 million iPhones in the quarter that just closed , which means a drop of more than 10 million units from 47.8 million in the fourth above. However, phone sales have grown apple over the second quarter of 2012, when 35.1 million were sold.

While the iPhone has become the star of the sales of the Cupertino company, Apple Tablet still emerging in sales and still can not find real competition in this field.

Apple sold 19.5 million iPads in this period , which is a drop from the 22.9 million sold in the previous quarter, a sales peak achieved through the Christmas campaign. Thus, despite the fall, the device has greatly increased its popularity. In the second quarter of 2012 was 11.8 million iPads sold, so sales have increased by almost 8 million a year to another.

These figures suggest that 17,314 has sold 9,027 iPhones and iPads every hour during the quarter. This translates into nearly 5 phones (4.8) and almost three iPads (2.5) sold every second.

Meanwhile

Mac sales fell to 3 million from the 4.1 million last quarter. Furthermore, in the same period last year sold 5.3 million, which also has been a decline yoy.

iPhone and iPad

work if we compare the figures for the second quarter of 2013 to the second quarter of 2012. The Mac, however, have been quite resentful. On the other hand, is the iPod player has continued its unstoppable fall , because users increasingly are favoring multimedia content consumption in tablets and smartphones. The units sold are the lowest in the history of the device.

Thus, Apple sold 5.6 million iPod units in the second quarter of 2013 , compared to 12.7 million units in the first quarter, when sales soared thanks Christmas. However, the decline is also pronounced if we compare the figures with the second quarter of 2012, when it sold 7.7 million units.

addition, Apple also highlighted relevant data on its application store. The company has exceeded 45,000 million applications downloaded , which means 800 apps per second, not counting downloading updates from them. 850,000 iPhone apps available for iPad while there is a total of 350,000.

Related links:

– Apple Q2 Results 2013.

– Apple Q1 2013 results.

– Apple Q2 2012 results.

Havesked 24 Apr, 2013


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