Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock is soaring ahead of the company’s sixth-generation iPhone launch, and while its market capitalization is now well over double that of rival Microsoft (NYSE:MSFT), Forbes on Sunday pulled an interesting snippet from a recent Vanity Fair piece. In the first calendar quarter of 2012, Apple’s revenue of $39.2 billion more than doubled Microsoft’s $17.41 billion in sales. The far more impressive stat, as the site noted, is that Apple took in $22.7 billion during the March quarter just from iPhone sales — meaning a single Apple product was responsible for 30% more revenue than Microsoft’s entire business in the same quarter. Apple’s “iPhone 5” is expected to launch next month and analysts are tripping over themselves to find new ways to call it the biggest product launch in Apple history. It will be interesting to revisit this revenue comparison after the holiday quarter, when Apple will launch the new iPhone and Microsoft will finally release its next-generation Windows 8 operating system.
COMMENTARY: If you haven't already done so, please checkout my blog post dated January 25, 2012 for a detailed commentary on Apple's fiscal Q1 2012 earnings report and my blog post dated October 4, 2011 for a detailed commentary Apple's unveiling of the new iPhone 4S.
I can hardly wait to see the iPhone 5 when it is unveiled in next month, as well as Microsoft's Windows 8 phone. Checkout my blog post June 6, 2012 for a detailed commentary on Microsoft's new Windows 8 phones scheduled to be released in September 2012 (or thereabouts). In a blog post dated June 19, 2012, I commented on the unveiling of Microsoft's new 10.6-inch Surface Tablet running the new Microsoft OS 8. Microsft's new tablet received rave reviews for its beautiful design innovation. It's mosaic Windows 8 operating sytem is a work of art, and could become a game-changer and makes Apple's OS X look pale by comparison. If the new Windows 8 phones are anywhere as good as the Surface Tablet is, it could become an iPhone-killer and inject new life into Microsoft, which has been slow in entering the smartphone and tablet markets.
Courtesy of an article dated August 20, 2012 appearing in BGR
we are also hard wait iphone 5 will unveil next week.
Posted by: Hotcandy | 09/07/2012 at 06:31 PM