Cook's Apple has wildly successful year, $121 billion in bank
125 million iPhones and 58 million iPads were sold.
Apple had a wildly successful year and made a mountain of profit. More importantly, Apple now has a war chest (a cash pot, if you like) stuffed with $121.3 billion (£75 billion).
Whatever will Apple decide to do with it? A glitzy new HQ is already in motion.
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As GamesIndustry International noted, Apple could buy every publicly traded video game company (EA, Activision, Take Two, Nintendo, THQ, Sony and GameStop) and still have over $70 billion left. Apple could even put in a bid for Microsoft's $49 billion Xbox business (the Entertainment and Devices division) and still have change for another business or two.
Full-year Apple profit was $41.7 billion. A whopping 200 million iOS devices were sold. 125 million of those were iPhones, and 58 million were iPads. Only 5 million were Apple TVs.
In the months July, August and September, Apple made $6.6 billion profit from 26.9 million iPhone sales, 14 million iPad sales, 5.3 million iPod sales and 4.9 million Mac sales.
Apple boss Tim Cook was asked during a conference call what he thought of Microsoft's new Surface tablet, to which he apparently replied: "Surface is a fairly compromised, confusing product."
Cook's Apple is Wealthy to say the least.