Apple has just announced record breaking results for Q1 2015 — 74.5 million iPhones, 21.4 million iPads, 5.5 million Macs sold, $74.6 billion in revenue — and now it's time to sit back, relax, and listen to their quarterly conference call. Apple's CEO, Tim Cook and CFO, Luca Maestri should be running the call. We'll update this post every few minutes with highlights, so refresh as the mood strikes you. You can listen along live via Apple.com.
- Classical music. Is that good?
- And we're off! Disclaimer time! Forward looking!
- Retail is now in region it's located.
- iPhone, iPad, Mac, Services, and other products
- Tim Cook (TC) is on.
- Historic quarter, incredibly proud. Interest at all time high. Half a billion visits to stores online and retail. iPhone demand at all time high. iPhones 6 volume hard to comprehend. 34 thousand iPhones an hour. 130 countries. Fastest rollout ever.
- App Store, Mac records. Mac up 14% to 5.5, App Store up 41%.
- Flurry reports Apple accounted for half activation.
- Shipped 1 billionth iOS product, Space Grey 64GB iPhone 6 Plus. Apple saved it.
- $74.6 billion. Earnings of 18 billion.
- 600 HealthKit developers integrating it into their apps. Great new experiences.
- Swift adoption huge. Stanford course now available.
- New categories. Apple Pay is off to a great start. 750 banks and credit unions. Makes up more than 2 out of $3 of contactless payments on 3 biggest card networkd. Panera says 80% of mobile payment transaction. Whole Foods has seen increase of more than 400%. Can use it up and down main street.
- 200,000 places, including vending machines, laundry machines, parking across the country.
- Convinced 2015 will be the year of Apple Pay.
- Dev for Apple Watch is right on schedule. Will ship in April.
- Great progress with IBM
- Healthcare, Energy, Industrial 12 apps this quarter. 22 total, over 100 by end of 2015.
- IBM engaged with over 130 additional companies. Couldn't be more pleased.
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