Apple Q1: 47.8 million iPhones, 22.9 million iPads sold

Clearly there are a LOT of suckers out there...

i use to have an iphone 2g, i now have android and will be sticking with android, the worse thing about apple products isn't just the extremely high price you pay for them, it's that fact that you have to use itunes in order to do anything and i completely agree that apple products are for complete noobs

iDiot$

GS3 for me so much better.

Who the hell are buying all these IPhones and IPads? 47 Million?? That must be worldwide sales. That's a LOT for one quarter. I'm happy with my IPad2 and my IPod Touch, but I don't have a IPhone. I'm just picked up a Galaxy S II. I haven't even scratched the surface as to what this phone can do. I do love the talk text. That's a great feature. There are like 40-50 apps already pre-loaded on the phone and I've used maybe 5 of them. I like that I can watch Netflix anywhere. I have unlimited web access.

GameSpot or AppleSpot?

The CoD of metrosexuals.

I've stood by my iPhone for years because I invested so much in apps.  But I hardly buy phone apps anymore so looking at jumping ship once my contract is up.  My phone works well but my friend's GS3 is awesome.  I'm not a guy who needs the best all the time, so the new model every 6 months doesn't bother me, but the quality gap between the products does seem to be growing enough to warrant a switch when it's time. 

People still buy iPhones? I can understand iPads as these are basically the best tablets available IMO. But the iPhone 4s and 5 are not that great compared to the competition 

to put things into perspective, this means around 150 MIL daily net profit out of 600 Daily Rev.

Saudi Arabia produces 12 Mil oil barrels a day, for a hundred each that's 1.2 Bil Daily rev, I doubt that oil has the 25% prof to rev ratio apple has, i think it's less with all the complex oil operation, number of employees and overpaid expat and local expertise.

Saudi is literally overflowing with money because of this, I seriously do not have the imagination to guess what would apple do with theirs, probably they should buy their own country, make their own laws, and avoid paying taxes altogether to make more money just to prove they can.

Now that's capitalism at its best. Build a great product and people will come. Better tax them more, they have lots of money.

Priorities.

SMDFH $4.2Billion a week? thats like the annual budget of some small 3rd world country , damn i wish i was rich

Who the hell still buys iPods

I used to not know why Apple products were so popular.  I have had blackberry, Windows mobile, and Android devices, and once I got an iPhone I understood. It runs perfectly, never has any hiccups and is fast as hell.

Disaster!!!!!!

damn,too many stupid people out there 

Oh how shocking...lol Apple builds quality stuff and it works. I personally like to tinker which is the antithesis of what apple wants me to do. It will never appeal to me for that reason alone. Also they opened the flood gates for patent trolling which is becoming something that has seriously started to hurt the industry. I haven't gone a single week without seeing a company get nailed for violating some obscure patent that ends up costing them billions since the whole samsung/apple thing. They make solid high quality products but they are a virus for the tech industry.

Apple makes more money = Debt in US increases......coincidence?

If they did not have the rotten practice of releasing new and slightly improved hardware annually, I would be happy for them.

I have such a massive problem with Apple.  To me, Apple represents everything that's wrong with the world.

They lie, they cheat, they steal, they let people die for profit, their whole paradigm encourages placing emphasis on appearance as opposed to actions, they aggressively hold back humanity's progress and innovation for their own personal short-term financial gain, they stifle and kill new businesses that may stimulate competition, they skip from border to border with more power than any government being living proof to the sceptical that money is the only thing that matters at *all* on the face of this planet any more and yet they live comfortably in every home as further proof of humanity's childlike inability to face its social responsibility.

When people read stories of all the awful things Apple are doing in the world, they take comfort in its expanding global dominion instead of guilt, because the more people doing it means the less blame can be placed on them personally, meaning the faster they can get back to enjoying their pretty new phone which just makes their life complete.

Apple represent corruption and they represent greed, globalisation gone sour and rotten under a shiny, polished, aluminium glass surface.

When Apple sales decline I'll know something right is happening in the world.

Apple = Fisher-Price for adults.

Funny how people hate so much on a quality product that actually works as advertised. We don't buy every new thing they come out with but what we have purchased works every single time we turn it on and does exactly what we need it to do. Between the 4 of us we have 3 iphones, 2ipods, and an iPad. Not a single issue with any of it. The support is excellent, the apple store works great, and I've easily found apps for everything I want to do. And to those saying these products aren't gaming devices, well, you aren't really gamers if you can't see that they are. My family plays games on them all the time and so do millions of others. Hate on Apple all you like but when a company makes a solid product that does what consumers want it to, meaning easy to operate, dependable, and well made, then that product is going to sell. I love my Apple devices and will continue to support Apple as long as they keep making solid products. The hate towards them is something I'll just never understand.

The thing I like about Apple, is that their customer service is way superior to everyone else. I only have an iPhone, but its lasted be several years without issues, so I really cannot complain.  

So, Apple sold a bunch of inanimate objects that are not particularly special, or for that matter, different than inanimate objects from past years... Yay.

So, what is Apple doing with all of its money? Doing R&D; on ways to extract money from the wallets of fools? Or are they going to make something new, and totally not the same product but with different dimensions?

Whatever the future holds, we can be sure that Apple will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Cool Story bro...

Apple makes quality products, but all you really need is one and be done with it.  The rest is just greed.

so... here i am in a hammock raeding this on my ipad listening to music on my iphone 5....

I learned a lot about games by reading this. Glad it's on GAMEspot... -_-

People like Apple because of how they look on the outside neglecting the hardware that is inside the device.. I do have to admit though their customer service is hands down the best I have delt with, it blew Dell's support out of the water when Dell was "all the rage". (personal experience) Although CNN did report that Apple reported a loss this year, that they did not sell as many devices as they did the year before (2011). Apparently Android devices sold more in 2012 than Apple sold iPhones. It will be interesting to see how the new Windows phones sell this year (2013).

What's a Ipad?

I bought one iPod and that's all. I don't understand how people keep buying the newest thing. I guess it's like a fashion statement. Enough people must care because there's not a huge difference besides different aesthetics and a new number.

first of all, apple product certainly not a gaming device, it only use gaming content to lure gamers to buy their product... my opinion

I still marvel that all those people get duped generation after generation...It's not a very good statement about humanity...

This is no surprise. I knew Apple will sell many, many iPhones and iPads. What more can you ask for with Apple products??! I own an iPad and I am really satisfied of it. Well, I am just hoping that someday, they'll lower their product prices.

Very impressive. Whatever they did it after the previous quarter fell short of their targets, it definitely seems to have worked. Of course, the Xmas period would have increased their sales significantly from the previous quarter anyway, but that level of growth on their sales is not to be taken lightly.

The real test for Apple will be 2013 though. With increased competition for all of their main products, it will be interesting to monitor their quarterly figures closely throughout the year.

Quarterly updates on apple?! Quite the unnecessary filler after all the Nintendo news and xbox speculation. Hopefully this will be the last we see of Apple's figures on GS.