The iPhone Helped Apple Make History This Quarter

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Apple on Tuesday afternoon announced a truly historic earnings report: It made $18 billion in total profit, which is the most earned by a single company during any quarter in history. And that's all thanks to the iPhone.

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Based on company data charted for us by BI Intelligence, iPhone sales were easily the biggest contributor to Apple's success this quarter, with 74.4 million iPhone units sold accounting for $51.1 billion (almost 69%) of the $74.6 billion in total quarterly revenue. In the year-ago quarter, Apple sold 51 million iPhones, which brought in $32.5 billion (56%) of the $57.6 billion in revenue.

In other words, Apple's choice to "go big" with iPhones this year has paid off handsomely for the company, in a way we've never seen before. It's simply a mammoth business right now.

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