Apple recently reported its results for the holiday quarter, with sales jumping to record highs for many of its products. Apple announced a record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. More statistics available in the chart after the break.
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There has recently been evidence that the tides have changed, my friends. And unfortunately, they aren’t changing in favor of Apple, and the company isn’t looking too hot in the third quarter of 2011. To start off, Samsung has stolen the top spot from Apple in smartphone sales during the quarter, as the company missed its sales expectations for the first time in five years. If you recall in the second quarter of 2011, Apple topped all other smartphone vendors by selling 20.34 million iPhones during the quarter, and took the crown as the world’s leading vendor.
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Believe it or not, iPhone 4 sales actually fell short of what Apple had expected of the 4th quarter – at 17.07 million units. However, CEO Tim Cook states that with the continued record sales of the iPhone 4S, amazing iPhone sales for the current quarter is almost guaranteed.
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Today, Apple announced that it saw over 4 million iPhone 4S’ sold in just the first week of its launch, a number that far topped the 1.7 million iPhone 4s sold during that release.
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Due to the release of its iPhone 4S – Apple stock reached its highest closing price ever, ending at $422.00 per share. This price was extremely close to Apple’s all time high – reached on September 30th at $422.86 during intraday trading.
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Apple’s newest Macbook Air and Macbook Mini models have proved to be amazingly successful – so much so that their presence has caused the overall Mac growth to be significantly higher than previously estimated.
According to research firm NPD, Mac sales rose 22% for the third quarter when compared to last year – which is 6% higher than Wall Street analysts predicted growth to be.
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Taiwan Economic News has noted that Apple supplier – Foxconn – has significantly increased its iPad 2 units from 14 million to 20 million for the third quarter, marking a 42.8% increase from the first sales projection made in July.
Just to let you know, this is a huge jump for any product, even the dominating iPad.
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According to the research firm – IHS iSuppli – Apple is projected to remain the leader in tablet sales longer than previously expected, meaning that the iPad will be on top even after 2013 (which was the date previously suggested).
The research firm approximates that Apple will ship 44.2 million iPads this year alone – which is up 500,000 from the firm’s last estimate.
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According to a new report by RetailSails, Apple now officially holds the position for the most U.S. retail sales per square foot of retail space. As one can see by looking at the sales per sqaure foot on the table above, Apple’s sales per retail square foot in the United States is almost double their closest competitor, Tiffany & Co. Apple has been opening retail store after retail store recently, in the United States as well as internationally. With these massive new openings, Apple also holds the position as the nation’s fastest growing retailer.
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According to the reputable analyst Jason Schwarz from SeekingAlpha, the iPad is expected to sell 22 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a nice end to the year for Apple when it comes to iPad sales. The year has definitely been tough, with global economies not looking too hot, as well as financial problems and unemployment rates that have plagued the united states. However, for Apple things are still looking up, which is something that we definitely can’t say for HP, who recently dropped production of their HP touchpad.
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If you haven’t heard, recent reports have shown that Best Buy and other Electronics Retailers are having trouble selling tablets other than the iPad.
For example, Best Buy is said to have a large number of HP tablets that it has not been able to sell. The lack of sales was so bad that Best Buy is reportedly in talks with HP about returning the huge surplus. In fact, out of all of Best Buy’s stock, only 10% was reported to have reached the hands of customers.
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DisplaySearch released its results on estimated mobile PC sales for Q2 2011 today. The research firm found that when it included both traditional notebooks and tablets, the company with the greatest number of shipments was Apple by far.
When added with the popularity of the iPad, Apple computer shipments accounted for 21.1% of the entire market with 13.6 million units shipped.
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If you’ve been tracking Apple, or own an iPhone, you may have heard of Square, a company which sends you a free credit card reader that plugs into your iDevice to allow others to make payments via credit card on the go. Square comes with a great-looking universal free application that installs via the App Store, and has actually become quite popular for business owners, among other people. So popular, in fact, that the company is now processing $4 million in mobile payments per day. The company charges 2.75% per swipe for all credit cards, so that means $110,000 a day for them.
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Despite facing strong competition, it appears that the iPad is still the champion of all tablets when it comes to sales in China.
Last quarter, other tech companies such as Motorola, Lenovo, and Asustek Computer all began selling their own tablets in the Chinese market, however, their performance has been nowhere near the success rate of the iPad.
In total, 1.4 million tablets were sold in China during the second quarter, and the iPad made up 74% of those sales.
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By now, we all can see that the iPad is probably going to beat all Android Tablets for quite a few more years, but according to a report by market watcher Telecoms & Media, the gap will decrease significantly by 2015.
Thats not all, Gartner also predicted that the iPad would rule over half of the market until 2015, when it is predicted to fall below 50% of the market. Similarly, Informa made the the same prediction, saying that in 2015, Apple would only beat Android tablet sales by a marginal 90 million units to 87 million units.
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With the App Store recently hitting 15 billion downloads, an analyst has reported that App Store sales are expected to jump 61% in 2011, and the average price per app will be up 14%. The analyst, Gene Munster, says that the average iOS user will download expected 83 apps in the year, compared to 51 in the year of 2010. Additionally, although 82% of all apps in the App Store are free (therefore, 18% are paid,) the paid apps’ average selling price is expected to rise 14%, to $1.44.
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