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Tim Cook reports unbelievable sales for Apple this year

Mar 12, 2015 by William Harper Leave a Comment

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO, Tim Cook announced that the sales have been record high, and the year been an unbelievable one for Apple, in a meeting with Apple shareholders, just a day after their Spring Forward event at San Francisco. The meeting of was held at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California on Tuesday. In their “Spring Forward” event, Cook announced about their plans to sell Apple Watch from next month onwards.

Last year, Apple’s sale for iPhones was record high at about 200 million smartphone units, through which Apple managed to earn estimated $200 billion in revenue. Tim Cook cited these achievements along with accomplishments of their other milestones, to support what he called as an ‘Unbelievable Year’. Cook also mentioned that the company had returned an estimate of $57 billion to its respected shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks last year.

This year, Apple’s shares have been risen by up to 65% from the previous year, and the company is valued at over $700 billion, which makes it the most valued company ever in United States’ ever. Although on Tuesday, the stocks of the Cupertino Giant fell by $2.63 or 2.1%, to $124.51 amidst the bigger market decline. Upon seeing the fall, some stock analysts began question on the success of Apple Watch.

Later in the meeting of shareholders, Cook promised more progress and better profits to the company. In a statement, he said, “Our diversity is increasing,” he further continued, “I want it to be better. It will be better.” Cook also announced the new smart car project his team is dedicatedly working on, known as the CarPlay. He said they would try their best to make it available to people as soon as they could.

Audi reports record high sales of luxury cars in February

Mar 9, 2015 by William Harper Leave a Comment

A Volkswagen subsidiary, Audi AG has reported its record high sales for the month of February. The German Automaker has reported increase in sales by up to 4.2 percent, which is about 122,550 luxury cars and sport-utility vehicles sold in February. The record high sales are primarily because of the high demand of revamped A3 compact saloon and the A6 luxury saloon by Audi.

The rise in deliveries by Audi is about 7.4 percent globally, which is 260,250 vehicles. The rise is the result of strong demands from Germany, China and the United States; Audi said in a statement.

“We are continuing our global growth and have again increased sales in all regions of the world in February,” said Luca de Meo, Member of the Board of Management for Sales and Marketing at Audi AG. He further continued, “The updated A6, which is also due to be launched in the United States over the next few weeks, performs very well and will provide us with added momentum.”

Worldwide, sales of the A6 luxury saloon rose by up to 10.8 percent, which is nearly around 20,650 cars in February. Especially in Europe, the A6 sales increased by 11.8 percent, with almost one in three A6 buyers in the region opting for the particularly efficient ultra-version.

The compact saloon, A3, also experienced very high increase in demands, majorly in the overseas markets, with deliveries rising up by 47.4 percent, which is around 28,850 units.

Volkswagen AG, Audi’s majority owner, released its preliminary earning figures on February 27, with the report that net profit associable to shareholders rose to €10.85 billion (US $12.02 billion) last year, from €9.15 billion the year before. Group revenue grew by 2.8%, to €202.5 billion and sales rose by 4.2%, to 10.14 million vehicles.

Tablet shipment declines for the first time ever, large screen phone finally killing tablets

Feb 2, 2015 by Aminul Islam Sajib Leave a Comment

After the introduction of Apple iPad, the tablet market didn’t have any sign of slowing down. Manufacturers started producing tons of tablet devices with different types of hardware specifications and most of them running on Android operating system. The sales was booming. So much that hybrid tablet devices were born, some capable of running both Android and full-fledged Windows operating system.

But the fourth quarter of 2014 saw something different. It gave the first indication that tablets may not be around forever. Giving the first sign that what the then Amazon CEO Thorsten Heins in 2013 said about tablets not being around in five years may actually be true.

According to latest data from IDC, total worldwide shipment of tablets and hybrid laptops that combine the best of both worlds in Q4 2014 was 76.1 million units. While that may sound a lot, it’s actually a 3.2 percent decline compared to the Q4 2013, during which period the total worldwide shipment of such tablet devices was 78.6 million units.

Of all the tablet devices that were shipped during the fourth quarter of 2014, Apple shipped the largest percentage of iPads totaling 21.4 million units shipped worldwide. It was a 17.8 percent decline compared to the previous year. Samsung in sales of its various tablet devices also saw a stark 18.4 percent decline. But possibly the worst decline was faced by Amazon in the sale of its Kindle Fire tablets. The company only shipped 1.7 million units which is a 70 percent decline from Q4 2013.

The only company that actually saw a rise in its tablet device shipment is Lenovo. It shipped 3.5 million units with a 9.1 percent growth year over year.

With the latest data from the last quarter in sight, it isn’t sure where the tablet market is heading. Rumors are on the web that Apple is preparing a few more variants of its successful iPad lineup while Samsung is actively making new Galaxy Tab tablets with exciting features and specifications. But will that be enough to regain the market? We will have to wait and see how the users respond when shipment reports from the first quarter of this year comes out.