Financial Results

Rogers Canada Roundup: Q2 Financial Results, Out of Stock, and 21Mbps HSPA+ Testing

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009 a 7:49 pm

A Canadian buffet of Rogers news today, with Q2 financial results, an update on the current out-of-stock situation at Rogers, Fido, and Apple Canada, and the beginning of an HSPA+ super-fast 3G rollout.

First up, Bloomberg (via MDN) reports that Rogers that ARPU (average revenue per user) was down $1.47 as customers curbed long-distance and travel, while total sales rose 3.1%. As to the iPhone in particular, the introduction of the iPhone 3GS and $99 price point for the iPhone 3G helped Rogers add 148,000 subscribers this quarter.

TiPb Presents iPhone Live! #20 -- 5.2 Million Sold!

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 a 11:46 am

Join Dieter and Rene for Apple's Q3 iPhone results, and Chris, James, and Rene for App Store redux, more third gen iPod touch, and iTablet rumors. Listen in!

AT&T Q2 Financials: Sold 2.4 Million iPhones... but Had to Pay for Them Upfront

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 a 8:38 am

Apple's exclusive US iPhone carrier, AT&T has announced their Q2 2009 financials, and when it comes to the iPhone, more is... well, more.

Apple Q3 2009 Conference Call - 5.2 Million iPhones, 10.2 Million iPods

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009 a 3:20 pm

Apple announced their Q3, 2009 financial results today. - Press release is live: The Company posted revenue of $8.34 billion, with 5.2 Million iPhone sales in the quarter. Boom.

“We’re making our most innovative products ever and our customers are responding,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re thrilled to have sold over 5.2 million iPhones during the quarter and users have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications from our App Store in its first year.”

Apple also hosted an accompanying conference call, highlights after the break!

iPhone -- 20% Profit Share of Mobile Industry?

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jul 20, 2009 a 9:40 am

The Wall Street Journal (via MacRumors) published a report stating that while Apple's iPhone, and RIM's BlackBerry make up only 3% of mobile phone sales last year, the gobbled up a huge 35% take of the profits. iPhone specifically was pegged at 1% of sales and 20% of profit. Boom! indeed.

Says Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff:

The disparity will become even starker this year when the two will take 5% of the market in unit terms but 58% of total operating profits.

Updated: Apple Reports 3.79 Million More iPhone Sold in Q2, 11 Million iPods

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009 a 3:30 pm

UPDATING ON LIVE CONFERENCE CALL:

Waiting for call to start, any minute now. Will post updates only when major iPhone-ish news is announced (or inner fanboy takes over).
Covering Macs
iPod touch growth, customers embrace superior features and apps.
US market share for MP3 players 70%, gaining share in most international markets
UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, China, growing.
iTunes store had good quarter.
DRM free now all 4 major labels and indies.
App Store unparalleled succes.
35,000 apps, +20,000 since last call
Almost at 1 billion downloads

More after the break!

AT&T Posts Quarterly Earnings, Once Again Needs to Thank iPhone!

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009 a 9:54 am

While we wait on Apple's quarterly results call scheduled for later today, it's worth noting that the iPhone's only US carrier just posted their own financials and things are still looking good for our favorite little pocket universe denter:

AT&T said 1.6 million Apple iPhone customers had activated services on the AT&T network during the quarter, more than 40 percent of which were new to the telephone operator.

Some analysts worried that the subsidies AT&T was paying for the iPhone were too costly, others that AT&T was too reliant on the iPhone:

AT&T Still Rolling in iPhone Dough: 1.9M iPhone's Activated in Q4

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009 a 2:58 pm

AT&T reported on their own quarterly earnings today, the highlights according to Fortune (via MacRumors):

Apple Q1 Conference Call Highlights: 4.4M iPhones Sold, 13.6M in 2008

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009 a 4:59 pm

We're listening to Apple's Q1 conference call, looking for any and all iPhone details in particular to share, and we'll update as soon as we get them!

Apple Q1 Conference Call Coming January 21

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009 a 9:50 am

About the only time Apple updates iPhone sales numbers is during their quarterly conference calls. Last time Steve Jobs himself showed up to crow about the iPhone hitting 10 million ahead of schedule and outselling the BlackBerry. This time? We don't count on it, but with Steve Jobs, we can never count anything out either.