How does iPad promote Apple's business growth?

Apple announced its financial report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011. The huge growth among them is probably already a habit for Apple employees. This report shows that Apple has achieved great success in many businesses, especially its star products iPhone and Mac computers, and their growth data shows that Apple's various businesses have continued to rise. What about the iPad? Let's listen to the in-depth analysis of people in the industry.

Although the development of Android phones has recently surpassed the market share of the iPhone, Apple’s leading edge in tablet PCs is still unrelenting. Despite the proliferation of tablet PCs, Apple's tablet business has been a long way from other companies' products.

We cited several figures in the third quarter to show that the development of the iPad is not stagnant. It is still Apple's most important product.

6 billion U.S. dollars:

In the third quarter, Apple made $6 billion in the iPad. It is worth pointing out that iPad currently makes more money than Mac. In the third quarter, Mac desktops and notebooks together accounted for 5 billion US dollars.

People buy iPads not just as a tool for entertainment. Many large companies are also willing to buy iPads to help employees work, just as Apple once actively promoted. However, there are many people that Apple did not expect to be extremely concerned and loved by the iPad.

Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, said in an analysis meeting today: “The iPad actually sold better than the Mac in the K-12 (Universal Education for All) School, which surprised us. Expected."

Although Apple is surprised at this sales situation, it does not mean that they are not happy to see this situation. Apple will certainly not care about students using the iPad in school.

9.25 million units:

This is the number of iPads sold during the quarter. Compared to the same period last year, the iPad sold only 3.3 million units, an increase of 183% year-on-year. What makes this huge increase? Obviously, compared with last year, iPad has a year to do product promotion, but also accumulated a customer base, but another important reason is that Apple has established a product supply chain. Looking back at this time last year, it is not particularly convenient to buy an original iPad. Until this summer, Apple began to meet people's huge demand for original iPad.

Earlier this year, Apple admitted that they could not meet people’s increasing demand for the iPad2. Now, Apple's iPad2 is always sold out, but Apple also said that their current production capacity is much stronger than a year ago. Although iPad2 always needs more than supply, the current supply capacity is finally able to meet the demand. Cook said that in some areas, the iPad has been able to meet supply and balance supply and demand.

14%:

This is not the iPad data, but the Mac's year-on-year growth this quarter. Although the iPad sold more than the Mac, the iPad did not significantly affect the Mac sales.

Cook admitted frankly: “We confirmed that there were some users who might have purchased new Macs in the quarter instead of buying the iPad. However, we believe that more users were originally prepared to purchase Windows PCs because the volume of PC business has dropped significantly. ”

After the introduction of the iPad, Apple successfully raised the banner of the "post-PC" era. At least, many of Apple's tablet competitor advertised the tablet PC as a PC to promote. The immense growth of the iPad and the continuous increase of the Mac can indicate that users also accept Apple-style computer models when they purchase Apple products.

222 million:

This figure is the total number of technology products that Apple counts as iOS, including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. This number can be compared with Google’s recently announced 130 million Android devices. Although the iPhone has been leading the iPad for three consecutive years, there is no doubt that Apple's tablet has enabled this number to grow substantially.

$2.5 billion:

This figure is the total amount of fees that Apple has paid to their application developers. This data and the aforementioned total number of iOS devices are all provided by Apple specifically for developers.

The continuous increase in the total number of iOS devices shows that the application revenue on the iPhone and iPad will still be very impressive. This is the fact that Apple is happy to inform app developers. This is probably a strategy to remind app developers who are already or about to be tempted by the Android platform – besides, iOS users will continue to grow, and continuing to develop applications under the iOS platform will benefit a lot!