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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. Good job! by jones_supa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those are amazing numbers. It shows that by making bug-free products, offering long term support, providing great value, acting fully ethically, and listening to your customers, can make you a fair amount of money. Their secret sauce? Bringing the real engineers to the spotlight.

  2. Taxes by Interfacer · · Score: 4, Funny

    And they paid $12 in taxes.

  3. yeah.... by SuperDre · · Score: 5, Funny

    All it means is that you pay WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY too much for their products.......

  4. Re:Tax by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple has invented a really fabulous business model, which was previously monopolized by the churches and governments. They take a bi-yearly Apple-tax from their believers by making devices which have planned obsolescence.

  5. Re:Tax by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Challenge accepted.