{"id":24199,"date":"2015-02-02T07:10:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T06:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=24199"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:34:55","slug":"the-iphones-impact-on-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/the-iphones-impact-on-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"The IPhones Impact on Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first quarter of Apple\u2019s fiscal year 2007, the last quarter before Steve Jobs<\/span><\/span><\/a> unveiled the original iPhone, Apple\u2019s revenue amounted to $7.1 billion.<\/p>\n

Contributing $3.4 billion to that total, the iPod was Apple\u2019s most important product back then. Now, eight years later, the iPod has been rendered all but obsolete as smartphones have taken over most music playback duties. Apple doesn\u2019t even break out iPod sales anymore; instead they are buried in the \u201cother products\u201d category along with Apple TV which, as Steve Jobs once put it, is considered a mere hobby at Apple.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile iPhone sales alone generated $51.2 billion in the most recent quarter, accounting for almost 70 percent of Apple\u2019s total revenue in that period. Being considered Apple\u2019s most profitable product, it is very likely that the iPhone also accounted for the lion\u2019s share of the company\u2019s record-breaking $18 billion profit over the last three months. It only took the iPhone<\/a> eight years to evolve from what many considered an overpriced niche product to the planet\u2019s biggest cash cow \u2013 an achievement that is unlikely to be repeated in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

This chart illustrate the iPhone’s huge impact on Apple’s results.<\/p>\n

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In the first quarter of Apple\u2019s fiscal year 2007, the last quarter before Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone, Apple\u2019s revenue amounted to $7.1 billion. Contributing $3.4 billion to that total, the iPod was Apple\u2019s most important product back then. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t