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Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

jmcbain writes: Yesterday, Apple reported its financial results for the quarter ending December 27, 2014. The company posted $18 billion in profit (on $74 billion in revenue), the largest quarterly profit by any company, ever. The previous record was $16 billion by Russia's Gazprom (the largest natural gas extractor in the world) in 2011. Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones last quarter, along with 5.5 million Macs and 21.4 million iPads.

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  1. Tax by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Be nice if they paid their taxes since they are rolling in cash. They keep a vast fortune off-shore just to avoid US taxes on profits, and screw Europe in the same way.

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  2. Re:Tax by smash · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sorry, what? My macbook is a 2011 and in way better condition as far as wear and tear goes, still perfectly serviceable than the MS Surface Pro 3 I have at work. I only recently upgraded from an iPhone 4-s (which is still getting updates) to an iPhone 6. If you want to cry about planned obsolescence and waste then you ought to be looking at DELL and the Android marketplace.

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