Apple's live conference call is due to begin at 5pm ET/2pm PT/10pm BST.
World of Apple will offer highlights from the call in this story.
- Call starting, speaking today Peter Oppeinheimer and Tim Cook.
- Higher revenue from iPod, iTunes and iPhone
- Apple performed "exceptionally well"
- 40% US growth, 47% intl, 74% in retail stores
- 50% of CPUs sold in retail stores are to new Mac users
- Ended quarter with 3 to 4 weeks of Mac channel inventory
- Good customer response on iPod touch
- iPod shuffle sales down, Feb. 19th price drop caused acceleration
- iPods have 73% of MP3 player market in US
- iTunes Store largest music retailer in US, 85% of legal music downloads
- Movie rental service well received by customers
- 200,000 downloads of iPhone SDK, 1/3rd of Fortune 500 companies have contacted Apple about iPhone development
- Looking to open new retail stores in Australia, China and Swizterland in "coming months"