Yesterday, Apple announced that it had a monster quarter. In Q4, it sold 74.5 million iPhone sales to go along with $74.6 billion in revenue and $18 billion in profits. Not only that, but it broke the record for the most money made by any corporation in history.
Having a hard time figuring out how to quantify numbers like that? Check out this incredible visualizer.
As soon as you load up the page, it’ll start counting how much profit Apple has made since you loaded the page, as well as how many iPhones, iPads, and Macs. For example, in the three minutes I spent on the site, Apple made$1.8 million in revenue, $450,000 in profits, sold nearly 2,000 iPhones, 573 iPads, and 150 Macs.
There’s not much more than that, but it’s a great site none the less to put Apple’s most historic quarter ever in more human terms. Check it out.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
One response to “Visualize Apple’s historic earnings with this awesome web app”
However, Wall Street insists that Apple is not making enough money to satisfy Wall Street’s unlimited greed. Apple simply doesn’t have enough future growth to interest them. As a shareholder I really don’t care if Apple’s future growth isn’t that high. As long as they continue to make plenty of money from single-digit growth and continue to grow their cash reserve for possible acquisitions, that’s good enough for me. Let Wall Street chase after Netflix, Amazon and Google so they can gamble about explosive growth. Good luck with that type of investment approach.