Apple’s Profit

From Daring Fireball’s Disney & Apple, Sitting In a Tree:

Apple was thriving [in 2006] — the Mac had completed its software transition from classic Mac OS to Mac OS X, and was beginning its hardware transition from PowerPC to Intel; the iPod was a cultural sensation and smash hit; and the company’s foray into its own retail stores was proving to be a, err, genius decision. …In October 2005 Apple announced its then-best-ever financial year: $14 billion in revenue, $1.3 billion in profit.

“Apple today generates more profit every 5 days than it did in the entire year of 2006.

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