iPhone 7 helps Apple to record-breaking sales – CNET in Spanish

The iPhone 7.

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After several months of disappointing, the iPhone 7 helped Apple to recover the step into sales.

Apple has sold 78.3 million units of the iPhone to achieve$ 78,400 million in revenue during its fiscal first quarter to the year 2017. In comparison, in the same quarter of 2016, Apple sold 75 million units of the iPhone and earned$ 75,900 million.

The units of iPhone sold during this period represent a record for the company and end up with a streak of three consecutive quarters of lower sales of units of the phone, compared with the same periods of the previous year.

Apple exceeded the expectations of analysts on Wall Street, who were expecting sales of 77 million units and revenue of US$ 77,400 million.

This quarter, Apple broke the streak of disappointing sales of its cell, which had not impressed him as it had before the release of the iPhone 6. IPhone sales are extremely important to Apple, because the cell generates a large part of the income of the company; in fact, the cell contributes two-thirds of the quarterly total.

Tim Cook, ceo of Apple, remained optimistic that the sales of the iPhone 7 could reverse the disappointing three consecutive quarters of low sales of the iPhone. The iPhone 7 was released in September of 2016.

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on the other hand, despite the solid sales of the iPhone, other areas of your business do not bring the same, despite the fact that Apple will launch new versions each year.

sales of the iPad continued to fall. During this fiscal first quarter sold 13,100 million units, a 19 percent less than during the same quarter a year ago. The revenue of the iPad amounted to US$ 5,500 million, a 22 percent fewer year by year.

Apple sold 1 percent more MacBooks during this period that its fiscal first quarter of 2016. Revenues were up 7 percent during the same period.

it Is interesting to note that the smart watch Apple Watch, the case of streaming Apple TV and the headphones Beats generated in the aggregate less revenue for Apple during the holiday quarter. In total, they achieved revenues of US$ 4,020 million, an 8 percent less compared to the previous year, when amounted to US$ 4,350 million.

One aspect of Apple’s business that will continue to grow is the services like App Store, Apple Music, iCloud and Apple Pay.

Although the company does not provide details of how each unit of service contributes to the revenues of Apple, all those services together amounted to US$ 7,200 million during the quarter. That is an increase of 18 percent compared to the same period the previous year. So only in the App Store were made transactions for US$ 3,000 million during the month of December, the best month to store digital in its history. For its part, Apple Music had its third quarter of growth and three times more consumer used Apple Pay during the year. Apple noted a 50 percent increase in transactions made with Apple Pay.

Cook added that they anticipate that the contribution of all services to double in the next four years.