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Cupertino (dpa) - Apple made a record profit of a good $ 28.7 billion in the Christmas quarter.
The iPhone group also exceeded the mark of $ 100 billion in quarterly sales for the first time.
Only the supermarket giant Walmart and the oil company Exxon Mobil had previously achieved this.
Analysts expect Amazon to join this exclusive club in the past quarter.
At $ 111.44 billion, Apple's revenue was 21 percent higher than a year earlier.
All product lines as well as the services business contributed to the growth.
In terms of profit, there was an increase of 29.3 percent in the first fiscal quarter, which ended at the end of December, as Apple announced.
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Apple brought the new iPhone 12 onto the market for Christmas business, which is equipped for the first time for super-fast 5G cellular communications and for the first time in years was given a new design.
IPhone sales rose 17.2 percent year over year.
The iPhone remains by far the most important product from Apple.
The business with subscription services such as Apple Music or iCloud storage brought in sales of almost 15.8 billion dollars - almost a quarter more than a year earlier.
With Mac computers, Apple made almost $ 8.7 billion, an increase of 21 percent.
In the Corona crisis, notebook sales are increasing across the industry.
Apple also launched Macs with processors developed in-house instead of Intel chips for the first time.
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A decisive factor in the strong growth was a significant improvement in Apple's business in China.
There sales rose within one year by 57 percent to 21.3 billion dollars.
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