Apple announces 1.1m iPhones sold in Q4

I imagine it's champagne and anti-histamines all round in Cupertino today, with the news that Apple sold 1,119,000 iPhones in the forth fiscal quarter and posted profits of $904 million from revenue of $6.22 billion.  The iPhone may be "the best iPod we've ever made", though, but the cellphone-free version still outstrips the mobile by almost a factor of ten; Apple sold 10,200,000 iPods in Q4, a 17-percent increase over the Q4 2006.

It wasn't just iPods and iPhones, of course; selling an extra 400,000 Macs above Q4 last year, the total shipped came to 2,164,000 although unlike previously Apple neglected to break that figure down into how many were laptops and how many desktop machines.  Still, it left Steve with plenty to be smug about:

"We are very pleased to have generated over $24 billion in revenue and $3.5 billion in net income in fiscal 2007.  We’re looking forward to a strong December quarter as we enter the holiday season with Apple’s best products ever" Steve Jobs, Apple

Looking forward indeed; the sterling performance encouraged the company's CFO, Peter Oppenheimer, to predict almost 50% further growth for Q1 2008, taking revenue to $9.2 billion.