Apple Earnings

Apple announced its fiscal 2018 first quarter earnings this afternoon, posting quarterly revenue of $88.3 billion, a 13 percent YOY increase and all-time record. International sales accounted for 65 percent of its quarter’s revenue, according to a press release put out by Apple.

We’re thrilled to report the biggest quarter in Apple’s history, with broad-based growth that included the highest revenue ever from a new iPhone lineup. iPhone X surpassed our expectations and has been our top-selling iPhone every week since it shipped in November,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We’ve also achieved a significant milestone with our active installed base of devices reaching 1.3 billion in January. That’s an increase of 30 percent in just two years, which is a testament to the popularity of our products and the loyalty and satisfaction of our customers.

9to5 Mac helped break Apple’s unit sales down by product line:

• 77.3 million iPhones
• 13.2 million iPads
• 5.1 million Macs

The company earned $20.1 billion in profit.

But Engadget notes that this was “the first time iPhone sales have declined during a holiday quarter since the phone launched, best as we can tell,” suggesting an iPhone market saturation.

Yet even if Apple overshot its forecast for iPhone X sales and is ramping down production, “Apple says the iPhone X has been the top-selling iPhone every week since it shipped in early November.”

One other bright spot: The “other products” category, which includes the Apple Watch, AirPods, Beats hardware, and other products, where revenue increased 70 percent YOY up to $5.5 billion.

Perhaps AirPods have finally hit their stride, with supply now starting to finally match demand (they appeared 6-week backlogged for the better part of a year!).