Despite the economical crisis, Apple delivered solid results for the last qurter. As usuall they had to find a reference slogan, so it is "the best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings in our history". Apple posted revenue of $8.16 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share. Apple sold 2.22 million Mac units during the quarter, 11.01 million iPods and 3.79 million iPhone, the latest representing 123 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.
If sales of hardware slowed down by 3% compared to the year-ago quarter, it mostly mostly affect high-end models, as entry-level models keeps selling relatively well (MacBook and iMac) . Sales of iPod and iPhone remain strong and compensate the small decrease of hardware unit shipment. Apple expects higher revenue in the range of about $7.7 billion to $7.9 billion for hte next quarter, so we can postulate that new hardware model (at least new iPhone expected in June) should be introduced in a near futu
