Apple announced financial results for its fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2012, ended September 29th,2012. The company reported a net profit of $8.2 billion, a minor decrease compared to last quarter’s profits of $8.8 billion, but a growth of 24.2% compared to profits of $6.6 billion, in the year-ago quarter. The company’s quarterly revenue rose to $36 billion in the quarter, an increase of 27.2% compared to $28.3 billion that it reported in the same quarter, last year, and a minor increase compared to last quarter’s revenues of $ 35 billion. International sales accounted for 60 percent of the quarter’s revenue. - iPhones: 26.9 million sold during the quarter, up 58% year on year. Previous quarter, Apple had sold 26 million iPhones - iPads: 14 million sold during the quarter, an 26% increase year on year. Last quarter, Apple had sold 17 million iPads. - iPods: 5.3 million sold during the quarter, down 19% year on year. 6.8 million iPods were sold in the last quarter. - Macs: 4.9 million sold during the quarter, a 1% unit increase over the year-ago quarter. It sold 4 million Macs in the last quarter. - Gross margin was 40 percent compared to 40.3 percent in the year-ago quarter. Notes from Apple’s Investor Conference Call: - On Microsoft's Surface: Apple CEO, Tim Cook called the Surface a 'a fairly compromised confusing product' and said that the consumers would continue to choose the iPad over it. - New Mac launches: Earlier this week, Apple introduced a new design for its iMac desktop computer, offering…
