Today Apple held a live conference call with members of the media and financial analysts to discuss the company's fourth fiscal quarter results for 2010 which it announced earlier.
Present during the call was Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer, COO Tim Cook and in a surprise appearance company CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs used the opportunity to discuss many of Apple's products and competitors candidly.
- Best Mac quarter ever
- 3.9 Million Macs sold beating the previous record by over 400,000
- Led by very strong sales of the iMac
- iPhone had year-over-year growth of 91 percent with unit sales of 14.1 million.
- Now on 166 carriers in 89 countries
- iPhone 4 shipping to nearly 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies
- Could have sold more iPhones if Apple could have made them quicker
- iPad has 3-4 weeks of channel inventory, below target of 4-6 weeks. Expanding to AT&T, Verizon, Walmart and Target stores
- iOS device sales passed 125 million last month
- Record breaking retail quarter, $3.57 billion revenue
- 874,000 Macs sold via retail, up 30 percent from the year-ago-quarter
- Opened 24 new retail stores for a quarter average of 301, average revenue was 11.8 million
- 317 stores now open in 11 countries
- 75 million retail stores visitors during quarter
- Expected to open 40-50 new stores in fiscal 2011, 50 percent internationally
- Cash and short/long term securities total $51 billion
- 40 million iPhone 4 sales so far
- Jobs: "We've now passed RIM and I don't see them catching up with us in the future."
- 300,000 apps on App Store
- Activating 275,000 iOS devices a day for the last 30 days on average (in reference to Google touting Android device activations)
- Jobs slammed upcoming 7-inch tablets claiming that after significant research Apple believes 10-inches in the minimum screen size. Believes 7-inch tablets will be dead on arrival
- Apple has sold 250,000 second-generation Apple TVs