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Apple Posts Q3 2005 Financial Results   
Written by zhangyuan   
February 28, 2008 14:00

Apple, yesterday, announced their 3rd quarter 2005 financial results:
Apple said net income for its third fiscal quarter ended June 25 rose to $320 million, or 37 cents per share, from $61 million, or 8 cents a share, a year ago, on a split-adjusted basis.

Revenue rose 75 percent to $3.52 billion from $2.01 billion.
Further details can be pulled from the webcast conference call discussing the financial results, hosted on Apple's site. MacRumors has posted an article detailing hilights of the call:
1.182 Million Macs shipped for quarter (35% growth)
687,00 desktops; 495,000 portables shipped
6.155 million iPods shipped for quarter (616% growth)
iTunes Music Store market share 80% according to Neilsen
Tiger revenue $100 million in quarter; installed base of Mac OS X is close to 16 million
Still planning on Intel based Macs to be available at this time next year
Apple noticed no significant drop in Mac sales following the Intel announcement, but only have a few weeks of data. Still are being cautious about 4th Quarter predictions/results
Question asked if Apple has considered advertising the Mac further especially surrounding the iPod "halo" effect, but no real answer was given
Question about Apple's thoughts on subscription vs purchased music model. Apple still feels that users was to purchase songs, not rent them and feels the 80% market share reflects this
As can be seen, it was a very strong quarter for Apple and it's iPod/iTunes and Mac OS X strategies.