Apple's record quarter: inside the numbers

Yesterday, Apple Inc. reported record profits of $1.14 per share ($1 billion) on revenues of $7.1 billion, which was also a record. The earnings were a pleasant surprise for Wall Street given analysts' expectations of around 78¢ earnings per share.

Over at Arstechnica, they briefly breakdown Apple's success in the 4th Quarter of 2006. Apple is really riding a wave, with the various incarnations of the iPod, and the newly released Intel based computers. Apple made a very smart move switching over to Intel, be it I wished they would have gone with AMD, but now the computers can finally run with the rest of the pack. Also with each use of OS X, it keeps putting my Windows experiences in the dust. Way to go Apple.

My only worry is that I hope all this success does not go to their heads. Previous history within Apple, has shown that success can go to their heads especially Steve Job's. I hope they can keep focus, don't branch out to far, and do what the do best creating software that runs on very well designed and integrated hardware. I also find it interesting has OS X become more and more popular, how people's thinking of computers may change once they have to know how to use Windows and OS X interchangeably.