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Cupertino (dpa) - Apple started this year with strong numbers, as they could only be achieved in the Christmas season.
The iPhone group increased sales in the past quarter year-on-year by 54 percent to 89.6 billion dollars.
The profit was more than doubled to 23.6 billion dollars, as Apple announced after the US market closed on Wednesday.
The beginning of the year for Apple was traditionally rather poor after brilliant Christmas quarters.
The iPhone played the leading role once again, bringing in almost $ 48 billion in sales - almost two-thirds more than a year ago.
But also with the Mac computers there was a solid increase of 70 percent to 9.1 billion dollars in sales.
Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, computers have been in greater demand because people work and learn more from home.
This also contributed to the sales increase of 79 percent to $ 7.8 billion for iPad tablets.
Apple has not given any sales figures for the devices for a number of years.
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Europe is becoming an increasingly important market for Apple.
Revenues here rose by 56 percent year-on-year to just under $ 22.3 billion.
Business in China continued to recover from the Corona slump a year ago, growing 87 percent to $ 17.7 billion.
In view of the pandemic, Apple did not give a specific forecast for the current quarter, but expects further growth.
At the same time, Apple is also feeling the effects of the global shortage of semiconductors.
The delivery bottlenecks would hit Macs and iPads in particular and depress quarterly sales by three to four billion dollars, said CFO Luca Maestri.
Investors let Apple shares rise by more than three percent at times after the numbers, which were well above expectations.
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