Revenue Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

iPhone said to be tops in worldwide revenue

by Mel Martin (Apr 21st, 2011)

Pretty impressive. The young upstart iPhone (just about 4 years old) has just dethroned Nokia in revenue. That's the word from Strategy Analytics today, as the research firm looked at mobile phone revenues from January through March. Nokia has been a consistent revenue leader around the world ...

Apple announces record revenue for 2nd quarter FY11

by Michael Rose (Apr 20th, 2011)

Ahead of today's 5 PM conference call, Apple released its earnings report for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 (otherwise known as the first calendar quarter). Profit number: $5.99B in the quarter. Total revenue for the quarter is US$24.6 billion, versus 13.5B year-over-year. Earnings per ...

Foxconn owner reports revenue up thanks to iPad 2, other devices

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 17th, 2011)

Hon Hai Precision, the parent company of Foxconn, recorded an impressive revenue increase in its latest earnings report thanks to the iPad 2, the original iPad and the Kinect. According to the Taiwan Economic News, the manufacturing company reported revenue of NT$152.878 billion (about US$5.2 ...

Are free digital content apps a free ride on Apple? How to move forward

by Erica Sadun (Feb 16th, 2011)

Sony Reader. Amazon Kindle. Rhapsody. In the App Store, they all have (or would have, if Sony's app had been approved) one thing in common: they're represented by free apps that serve as profitable storefronts to their digital content. They all pay their $99/year entrance fee to the App Store, but ...

Where Apple's money comes from

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 21st, 2011)

According to a report of Asymco, the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch collectively generated sales of about US$17.3 billion which accounts for 65% of Apple's overall sales in its latest reported quarter. Of the three iOS devices, the iPhone and iPad combined for $15 billion in revenue while the iPod ...

Apple is now the largest mobile phone manufacturer by revenue

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 20th, 2011)

Based on revenue, Apple is now the largest mobile phone provider in the world, surpassing even global leader Nokia. In the winter quarter of 2010, the iPhone and its accessories generated revenue of $10.47 billion for Apple. Nokia's Devices & Services group projects Q4 2010 sales of $11.7 ...

Citibank: Apple could pull in $2 billion in App Store revenues in 2011

by Mike Schramm (Jan 3rd, 2011)

Right before the year switched over, Citibank released its "US Internet Stock 2011 Playbook," and in there was an interesting prediction about the App Store. Despite what seems like constantly falling prices and the rise of "freemium" apps, Citibank expects Apple to pull in $2 billion in gross app ...

iPad and Kinect: two fastest-selling gadgets of all time

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 17th, 2010)

Apple and Microsoft have been competing for decades in the desktop market, so it is only natural to compare their success in other markets. Though the Microsoft Kinect and the Apple iPad are vastly different devices, the pair are the two fastest selling gadgets this year. The Next Web put together ...

2.8 million downloads for Gun Bros, 7.3 million for Zombie Farm

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2010)

I am anxiously awaiting some stats on this past week's releases in the App Store -- over the past two weeks, we've seen some gigantic games released for iOS, and yet familiar names like Cut the Rope, Angry Birds, and Fruit Ninja are still topping the charts (along with some big EA titles benefiting ...

OpenFeint announces in-app content service, infrastructure to support freemium games

by Mike Schramm (Dec 1st, 2010)

Social gaming network OpenFeint has finally unveiled its OpenFeint X service, which will allow developers on the App Store (and a few other mobile platforms) to add cloud-based microtransaction content to their games on top of Apple's own in-app purchase service. This is apparently a system that ...

Report: In-app purchases to overtake download revenues by 2013

by Mike Schramm (Nov 30th, 2010)

Here's an interesting report from Juniper Research. According to their work, mobile app revenues will reportedly grow from the current US $6 billion to a whopping $11 billion by 2015. And the majority of that revenue will come not from the standard download fee, but instead from in-app purchases, ...

Microsoft also declares record revenue, but Apple still on top

by Mike Schramm (Oct 29th, 2010)

Apple isn't the only technology company that's posting record revenue this year -- Microsoft has brought in $16.20 billion in the last quarter, which stands as a record with a 25 percent increase from the same time last year. The Seattle giant also increased net income to $5.41 billion, so it looks ...

Report: Android ad revenue beats iPhone, iOS and smartphone market still growing

by Mike Schramm (Oct 19th, 2010)

Millenial Media has released its latest report on cross-platform mobile advertising, and the iPhone has lost another step on the Android platform. According to Millenial's reporting, revenue for advertising from the Android platform has exceeded iPhone-only revenue. That's not quite as bad as it ...

NimbleBit: Over half a million playing Pocket Frogs, "3-4%" buying in-app purchases

by Mike Schramm (Sep 20th, 2010)

I've been playing NimbleBit's freemium Pocket Frogs game since it was released last week, and apparently I'm not the only one -- Ian Marsh tells TUAW that the game has been downloaded by half a million people so far. The company is also seeing 200K daily active users, and while Marsh couldn't share ...

Flurry: In-app purchases generating lots more revenue per user

by Mike Schramm (Jul 16th, 2010)

Analytics firm Flurry has announced that in-app purchases are generating $14.66 per user per year in June of 2010, which is a few times larger than it has been in the past. Previously to 2010, the games tracked were generating only a few bucks per user per year, but in January the total jumped to ...