Telstra today announced their mid year results, and there’s some interesting numbers in there. Let’s take a look.
So, completely unsurprisingly, AT&T made a ton of money last quarter – $US31.4 billion. Chalk that up in part to the 4.1 million iPhones they activated. But don’t chalk it up to the paltry 442,000 tablets switched on.
In a long-winded bit about components and the future during Apple’s earnings call, Apple COO (and acting head honcho) Tim Cook talked about how, in 2005, they invested a lot in securing agreements and pre-payments for tons of flash memory – around $US1 billion worth – because they thought it’d be important in the future.
The good news for Microsoft: a record 16.2 billion American dollars of revenue last quarter! The bad news: That’s in spite of continued big losses in their online segment and being passed by Apple in revenue.
It’s maybe not that big a surprise, given the huge number of iPhones Apple moved this past quarter, but it’s still a big number: AT&T activated 5.2 million iPhones. That’s nearly 70 per cent of their entire integrated device total.
Selling 8.3 million mobile phones, 2.7 of which were smartphones, provided Motorola with earnings of $US162 million this quarter, compared to $US26 million this time last year. Motorola’s success is largely due to the Droid, which was dropped late last year and leads the market in Android phone sales. [TG Daily]
Microsoft just announced a monster quarter and fiscal year, with record revenue thanks largely to everybody gobbling up Windows 7 – to the tune of 175 million licences sold since it launched.
