{"id":9302,"date":"2021-07-28T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9302"},"modified":"2021-07-29T08:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T12:46:49","slug":"iphone-sales-jump-50-even-with-chip-shortage-and-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/iphone-sales-jump-50-even-with-chip-shortage-and-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Sales Jump 50% Even With Chip Shortage And Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced that the company recorded nearly $39.6 billion in <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">iPhone<\/span> sales in the three months of its third fiscal quarter, 50% more than at the same time in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple said it made a profit of $21.7 billion, nearly double last year&#8217;s profit of $1.30 per share, representing total revenue of $81.4 billion, itself a 36% increase over the previous year. This was far above what analysts had predicted for the company, which reported an average of $1 per share in earnings and revenue of nearly $73 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Apple&#8217;s recent sales are another example of how technology companies have thrived during COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normally, Apple struggles with rising iPhone sales in the summer months before its annual fall iPhone is unveiled while people wait for the new products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other aspects of Apple&#8217;s business are also doing well: the tech giant announced $7.4 billion in iPad sales, up 12% from the same time a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mac, meanwhile, generated sales of $8.23 billion, an increase of 16% over the previous year. Wearables, home and accessories, on the other hand, rose 36% to almost $8.8 billion. The company&#8217;s profitable services business also flourished, up 33% to $17.5 billion in sales.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/apple-iphone-sales-jump-50-despite-chip-shortage-ahead-of-fall-iphone-13-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in CNET.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced that the company recorded nearly $39.6 billion in iPhone sales in the three months of its third fiscal quarter, 50% more than at the same time in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[202,47],"class_list":["post-9302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-apple","tag-iphone"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9342,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302\/revisions\/9342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}