Facts About Apple's Business That Will Blow Your Noggin

iPhone revenue of $12.3 billion was 50% of the company's revenue for the quarter

This was the biggest iPhone quarter ever, and the first time the March quarter beat the Christmas quarter. Thank you Verizon!

Dan Frommer, Business Insider

iTunes had $1.4 billion in sales, which is what analysts expect Barnes & Noble to report for sales in its current quarter

Apple's cash pile is now $65.8 billion, which means it can't afford Facebook, but ...

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Apple could buy Groupon (~$20 billion), Twitter (~$10 billion), and Zynga (~10 Billion) with change left over to buy LinkedIn (~$3 billion) and Pandora (~$1.2 billion).

71 million people visited Apple's retail stores during the March quarter, which is about same amount of people that paid to attend a Major League Baseball game last season (73 million)

Roy Zipstein

Apple's revenue growth was 83%. For context, Google was 27% in its most recent quarter, and Microsoft is expected to be 12%.

Apple's Mac has outgrown the PC market for 20 quarters in a row

Apple gets $660 per iPhone on average including accessories and $604 per iPad on average including accessories. Crazy because the iPhone is a much smaller device.

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Apple's $660 average selling price for an iPhone blows out the nearest competitor.

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Baird analyst William Power says HTC is the second closest to Apple with a $364 average selling price. RIM is in third with $302. (Of course, those other companies have a wider line of handsets dragging on their averages.)

Apple is now the biggest phone maker as measured by revenue

All Things D

Apple has paid $2 billion to iOS developers since opening its App Store.

Engadget

Apple's revenue from China was $5 billion in last two quarters, a 400% increase, and it only has 4 stores in China!

Roy Zipstein

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