Apple has announced its results for the first quarter of this year, and all the numbers are up compared to Q1 of 2011, some even by a lot. The same isn't true if the comparison is with Q4 2011, but that's to be expected – first of all, the last quarter is always the biggest of any year, and secondly this specific quarter was longer than usual, which skewed every company's numbers a bit. Let's dive in. Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones during Q1, 88% more than in the year-ago quarter and 5% less than in Q4 2011. 11.8 million iPads were sold from January to March, 151% more than in the year-ago quarter.
Unwired View, Apple Q1 results: doing so great that it's getting boring. 35M iPhones and 12M iPads sold, 600K apps