Apple Posts ‘Best Quarter Ever’

Profits are up fivefold from a year ago ($320 million vs. $61 million) and revenue nearly doubled ($3.52 billion vs. $2.01 billion). iPod sales are great, but Mac sales are way up, too. You can see the effect of the iPod Shuffle, too — iPod unit sales are up sevenfold, but revenue “only” quadrupled.

★ Thursday, 14 July 2005