In many of the financial press accounts of Apple's Q1 2013 results, the terms "disappointing" and "flat" were used to describe the company's performance. Well, as you can see in the graphic above from Statista, Apple's performance was far and away better than that of any other US company.
How good was the first quarter? It was the most profitable quarter ever for a tech company at $13.1 billion in net income. The previous record? Apple's Q1 2012 net income at $13.06 billion. How did the other tech companies do? Micros
