Apple gains, the Microsoft loses – Money.pl

2015-07-23 9:58

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Author: Giznet.pl

Recently ended US third quarter of the fiscal year, so business Technology praise their financial results. While Apple announces high profits, Microsoft takes note of the loss.

In the previous quarter, the company under the leadership of Tim Cook reported revenue of $ 49.6 billion, and its profit amounted to 10.7 billion dollars . In the same period last year, revenues amounted to 37.4 billion dollars and 7.7 billion profit. Apple’s financial results are therefore better than expected, and the most important product your is the iPhone, which sold during the quarter in the amount of 47.5 million pieces. Revenues from sales of Apple’s smartphone amounted to 31,37 billion and were higher by as much as 59 percent compared to the same period last year. In the last quarter, customers also bought 10.9 million iPads and 4.8 million PC Mac.

– It was a great quarter. Revenues from the iPhone increased by 59 percent compared to last year, it sold very well either the Mac, and thanks to the App Store achieved record revenue from services. We also had a successful launch of Apple’s Watch – Tim Cook said in a press release. – Interest in Apple’s music was amazing, and we can not wait to autumn Prime Minister iOS 9, OS X, El Capitan and watchOS 2.

Unfortunately, Apple did not provide any specific data on the number of units sold Apple Watch, but Luca Maestri, director of finance Apple, assured that the sale was better than selling iPhone and iPad within the first nine weeks since its debut.

While Apple is gaining, Microsoft loses. The company announced the first three years of quarterly financial loss. In the past three months, it recorded a loss of 3.2 billion dollars. It is not surprising that it is mainly caused by the write-down on the entire amount of losses that the company has spent on the acquisition of Nokia’s mobile devices division. And the amount is undeniably useful, since we are talking about $ 7.5 billion. In the same period last year, Microsoft made a profit of $ 4.6 billion.

It is also not surprising that sales of PCs falls, this is also reflected in the financial results of Microsoft. In the last quarter, a 22 percent decreased sales of Windows OEMs. Increased for Lumia phone sales, but because customers chose rather cheaper models, Microsoft reported a decline in revenues in this respect.

Redmond success was the increase in revenue from the Surface tablet, which amounted to $ 888 million. Two years ago tablets Microsoft brought concern losses. Segment of computer hardware and gaming, which consists of the Surface and Xbox, posted revenue of $ 1.9 billion, more than forecast. Success turned out to be also Office 365, which increased the number of subscribers by almost 3 million people. Currently, the package already uses 15.2 million people, an increase of 10 million over the year.

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