Apple today announced its fiscal 2010 first quarter results for the period ended December 26, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $15.68 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion, or $3.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $11.88 billion and net quarterly profit of $2.26 billion, or $2.50 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
During the quarter, Apple sold 3.36 million Macintosh computers, 8.7 million iPhones and 21 million iPods. iPhone sales grew 100% compared to previous year, while sales of Macintosh computers and iPods saw 33% growth and 8% decline respectively. Apple sold 42.44 million iPhones since its introduction on Jan 09 2007.
Apple is holding a product announcement event on Jan 27 to reportedly announce a tablet device. Number of reports suggest that Apple has been in talks with game developers, book publishers and content providers to get digital version of books, magazines, newspapers and TV shows onto the new tablet device.
