Apple Q4 Earnings Jump At Biggest iPhone Launch Ever

This afternoon Apple announced their latest earnings, those for their own fiscal Q4 2014, for the three months that ended on September 27th, 2014. These earnings included a cool quarterly revenue of $42.1 billion USD while with $1.42 per diluted share, Apple raked in a quarterly net profit of $8.5 billion. This quarter includes the launch of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the company's "biggest iPhone launch ever," according to CEO Tim Cook. Apple also drove a record $13.3 billion in cash flow from operations in this fiscal Q4 2014 quarter.

Apple's biggest revenue this quarter came from the iPhone – as it should have been expected, with $23.68 billion for the three months.

Next was iPad with $5.32 billion in revenue, while the Mac hit $6.6 billion and the iPod hit its lowest number at $410 million for the quarter.

With accessory sales at $1.49 billion and a combination of iTunes/Software/Services reaching $4.61 billion, it should be made clear where Apple's future is.

Sales of the Mac are up 21% year-over-year while sales of the iPod are down 24% year-over-year. iPhone sales have gone up 16% year-over-year and up 12% since the quarter before the one just past.

Sales of the iPad are down 13% year-over-year and down 7% sequentially. Lucky for Apple, they've just released a couple of new models, so we'll likely see numbers grow in the next three months.