Todays conference call has finished, announcing Apples Q1 Financial results, the last 14 weeks have been the best in Apples history.

  • 14,043,000 iPods sold, 207% growth over the year ago quarter.
  • 1,254,000 Macintosh computers sold, 20% growth over the year ago quarter.
  • Revenue of $5.75 million, 40% of that from International sales (outside of US).
  • Net Quarterly profit of $565 million.
  • Gross margins of 27.2% compared to 28.5% Q1 2005.

    “We did see what we think was a bit of a pause from some customers associated with the Intel transition,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, in a telephone interview.

    Steve Jobs had the following to say about the record quarter and the year ahead, We are thrilled to report the best quarter in Apple’s history. Two highlights of an incredible quarter were selling 14 million iPods and getting ready to launch our new Macs with Intel processors five to six months ahead of expectations. We are working on more wonderful products for 2006, and I can’t wait to see what our customers think of them.”

    After the conference call Apple’s stock has taken a bit of a rocky road eventually settling at $82.49.