IPOD helps Apple earn money
Apple has quadrupled its quarterly profits, thanks to global sales of more than 6.5 million of its iPod music players over the past three months.
Its net profits for its fourth quarter rose to 430mln dollars. Last year it was 106mln dollars.
The trade turnover for the same period was 3,68mlrd dollars. But analysts had expected $3.74mlrd dollars.
Apple, which recently launched its new super-small iPod Nano, has 75% of the entire global digital music player market.
During the fourth quarter Apple also sold 1.2 million of its Macintosh computers.
Sales of iPods rose up to 220%, also compared to the same period a year earlier.
"We can conclude this year was the best year in Apple`s history," said Steve Jobs, Apple`s chief executive. "This is the direct result of our focus on innovation and the immense talent and creativity at Apple. We are very excited about the new products we`re working on for 2006."
As It is expected, Mr Jobs may on Wednesday launch another new version of the iPod, this time a model that can play videos.
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