Apple: 860,000 more iPods in Q3, new iPods soon?

Apple today announced financial results and sales statistics for its fiscal 2004 third quarter ended June 26, 2004. Of interest to iPod lovers: 860,000 iPods were shipped during the quarter, representing a 183 percent increase in iPods over the same quarter last year.

By comparison, Apple shipped 876,000 Macintosh units, representing a 14 percent increase in CPU units.

For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $61 million, or $.16 per diluted share.

These results compare to a net profit of $19 million, or $.05 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $2.014 billion, up 30 percent from the year-ago quarter.

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