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This week Apple let loose their quarterly earnings for investors and the public alike, letting it be known that a quarterly revenue of $35.5 billion along with $6.9 billion in quarterly net profit is all well and good. This quarter saw the sales of 31.2 million iPhones, this a record for this quarter of the year, along with 14.6 million iPads – that’s up for iPhones, down for iPads.

Meanwhile the company has declared a cash dividend, Apple’s Board of Directors bringing a dividend of $3.05 per share of common stock in this period. This dividend is payable on the 15th of August, 2013, and shareholders of record as of August 12th, 2013 will be eligible for the payout.

“We are especially proud of our record June quarter iPhone sales of over 31 million and the strong growth in revenue from iTunes, Software and Services. We are really excited about the upcoming releases of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, and we are laser-focused and working hard on some amazing new products that we will introduce in the fall and across 2014.” – Apple CEO Tim Cook

This same quarter last year saw Apple bring in $8.8 billion in quarterly net profit one year ago, while revenue has also gone down from $43.6 billion this past quarter.

This past quarter didn’t exactly come in as one of Apple’s most mind-blowing when it comes to hardware, this resulting in an expected set of numbers as reported. What we did see, on the other hand, is previews of software such as OS X Mavericks and the next iPhone’s iOS 7.

This Fall, Apple says, we’ll be seeing some exciting new products – and if you’re surprised by that suggestion, you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years. Without an iPhone, at that.

Stay tuned to SlashGear for additional analysis on this quarter’s results, and stick around for the Q and A as well!

Apple Q3 2013 earnings bring dividend despite less-than-eventful market period is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Apple today released its Q3 2013 earnings report, announcing 31 million iPhones sold in the three-month period ending June, along with 14.6 million iPad units sold. Both the iPhone and iPad sales are down from the previous quarter, but this marks the first time the iPad has seen a yearly decline in sales, a 14 percent decrease YOY.

Analysts expected Apple to sell 27 million iPhones, 18 million iPads, 3.85 million Macs, and 4.9 million iPods this quarter.

Last quarter, Apple showed a slight drop in sales from the previous record-breaking quarter with 37.4 million iPhones and 19.5 million iPads sold.

This quarter’s 31 million iPhones represent a quarterly loss of 21 percent, while still being up 20 from the same quarter last year. However, the iPad is down 25 percent sequentially and is down 14 percent from last year.

Interestingly, the average selling price for the iPhone has decreased from $613 last quarter to around $580 this year, perhaps marking that cloud innovation has required users to purchase less capacity, but more likely pointing toward the near ubiquity of smartphones.

When everyone owns a smartphone, as opposed to early adopters and tech fanatics, the lower-end model becomes a more attractive option in terms of pricing, especially with aggressive promotions from carriers.

The drop in iPad and iPhone sales quarterly can be attributed to the fact that this is a historically slow time for Apple and all CE companies, and that both devices are expecting a refresh soon.

The iPhone 5 was unveiled last fall, with the next-generation Apple smartphone expected in the fall alongside iOS 7. In terms of the iPad, the most recent refresh came in November with the availability of the iPad mini.

Of course, that Christmas quarter was Apple’s strongest yet for iPhone and iPad sales, breaking previous records for both products. But things have not-so-surprisingly slowed down since the star products’ unveiling, with many now waiting for the newer models to go on sale.

Meanwhile, Mac and iPod sales remain relatively flat from last quarter. Apple sold 3.75 million Macs in the quarter ending in June, down just barely from 3.9 million last quarter. This represents a 7 percent YOY loss, down 5 percent from the previous quarter.

Obviously, the PC market is dying all around us, so flat yearly and quarterly growth is actually quite impressive.

Mac sales usually do best during the back-to-school season. In Q4 of 2012, which goes from July through September, Mac sales hit 4.9 million, which was actually a 1 percent increase from the year before.

But during Christmas, the first full quarter of the 13-inch Retina MBP’s availability, Mac sales only reached 4.1 million units, representing a 16 percent quarterly decrease. Worse yet, it was a 21 percent fall from the same time last year. Last quarter, Mac sales were essentially flat again with 3.95 million units sold, down just one percent from the quarter before and nearly flat with the 4 million they sold in the previous year during the same period.

iPods continue to lose traction with a group of users who are increasingly interested in the iPhone and iPad, both of which offer similar, yet more robust technology.

Third quarter sales totaled 4.5 million, down from 5.63 million last quarter and a YOY loss of 32 percent.

It hasn’t been a particularly quiet quarter for Apple, at least in the announcement department. But, as far actually shipping new products, Q3 of 2013 has been relatively uneventful. Perhaps that’s why the company’s revenues are down to $35.3 billion, from $43.6 billion in Q2. Still, while its revenues are down significantly from the last two quarters, things are pretty stable year-over-year. In fact, it’s enjoyed a small increase over the $35 billion it raked in during Q3 of 2012. Still, while revenues are up, profits are down. $6.9 billion in net income is hardly anything to snub your nose at, but it does represent a notable drop from the $8.8 billion Apple pocketed in the same quarter last year. That’s at least partially attributable to a year-over-year drop in both iPad and Mac sales, though the 31.2 million iPhones sold is a record for the June quarter — up 20 percent from last year. The decline in iPad sales is particularly notable. After selling 17 million iOS tablets in Q3 of 2012 and 19.5 million just last quarter, Apple only managed to sell 14.6 slates in the three month period ending June 30th. Mac sales were down less dramatically, from 4 million to 3.8 million, year-over-year, though those numbers are roughly flat sequentially.

The iPod line continued its rather swift decline in Q3, with sales dropping 19 percent sequentially and 32 percent year-over-year. The impressive uptick in iPhone sales does help balance out the drop, but it appears the writing is on the wall for the product family that helped kick start the digital music revolution. All the blame for Apple’s declining profits can not be blamed on the iPod, however. Sales are down pretty much across the board, both sequentially and year-over-year, with the exception of the iPhone. All the while, Cupertino’s expenses keep increasing.

You’ll find updates and more numbers after the break from Apple’s earnings call.

Filed under: Cellphones, Misc, Mobile, Apple

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There’s really no two ways about it – studies looking at the use of tablets on the market today suggest that the iPad continues its reign of dominance – at least in the web traffic universe. As the iPad appears to gain steam in studies of web traffic as revealed by Chitika this month, if only by a bit more than a percentage point each month, the difference is much more significant when considering the competition. It’s as if there is none.

What you’re seeing here from Chitika’s studies is the idea that the iPad – all of the different versions of the iPad considered as one entity, that is – control a whopping 84.3% of the web traffic belonging specifically to tablet devices. After that it’s the Amazon Kindle Fire and Samsung’s entire Galaxy Tablet collection, both of those groups hovering about 5%.

Below that – when separated from this already lopsided display – you’ll find the rest of the tablet market to be rummaging around the Barnes & Noble Nook and Google’s Galaxy Nexus tablet lines. Of course you’ll note that no other collection of tablets has been around – or has so consistently released tablets that can be considered the same, with the same brand name – below the fifth place entry on this list.

With web traffic growing for the Nook family by a whopping 37% from month to month, how much does it really matter when the tablet family still only controls 1.2% of this study?

In the end, in this case, it’s really up to Amazon or Samsung to continue to release machines that live in this hero environment to beat out Apple in any study such as this. We’d be interested to see an expanded view of each individual model machine to see how each of them does in said sort of study.

But as you may well know if you’re a webmaster, not many systems actually track such things. It’s more important, in the end, to know what the family needs to show a webpage as solidly as possible

iPad family web traffic dominates while all others dwindle in latest Chitika study is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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