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Apple Posts USD 472M Profit on Revenues of USD 4.37B - OSNews.com

Pretty good financial news for Apple investors just came out. They had a really good quarter.

Apple Posts USD 472M Profit on Revenues of USD 4.37B - OSNews.com:

revenue of USD 4.37 billion and a net quarterly profit of USD 472 million

The same article says that Apple shipped over 1.3 million computers last quarter. They also did over 8 million iPods.

Their sales revenue keeps rising, their profits keep going up, their product volume keeps increasing.

Meanwhile, they somehow manage to ship new versions of their operating system at just the right intervals (1-1/2 years on average), hire great programmers, and continuously improve the power of their OS and flagship applications.

Not only that, they have incredible power built into their multi computer language programming IDE (database designer, OOP modeler, editor, compiler, linker, etc.). And they keep increasing the quality of their programming documentation and developing new APIs for programmers to use.

On top of that, their computer hardware keeps getting faster and their operating system keeps getting more efficient, making their systems really go fast.

It is pretty crazy. When you hear someone in the computer field say something is impossible, you look over at Apple and Apple is already successfully doing it.

Not only that, they are not tooting their own horn. Though rows of engineers in Cupertino may be silently rolling their eyes about the latest claims of what is impossible - they must be keeping their mouths shut and continuing type type away, doing the impossible.

Apparently, you can make a profit doing that - and, apparently it can make your stock price go up too.

posted by John Collins @ 10:44 PM