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"Apple on Tuesday announced it sold 35.1 iPhones and 11.8 iPads in its fiscal second quarter. Analysts had expected Apple would sell about 30.5 million iPhones and 12.3 to 13.5 million iPads.\nEarnings for the quarter were $12.30 a share on revenues of $39.2 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had projected a 2Q profit of $10.02 a share on revenues of $36.7 billion.  Apple had issued guidance of $32.5 billion on revenues with profits of $8.50 per share. Apple's stock was up close to 7% in after-hours trading on the news.\n\u201CWe\u2019re thrilled with sales of over 35 million iPhones and almost 12 million iPads in the March quarter,\u201D said Tim Cook, Apple\u2019s CEO, in a release from the company. \u201CThe new iPad is off to a great start, and across the year you\u2019re going to see a lot more of the kind of innovation that only Apple can deliver.\u201D\nApple also sold 4 million Macs during the quarter, a 7% unit increase over Q2 2011 and about what analysts had expected. Apple sold 7.7 million iPods, down 15% from the year-ago quarter.\nThe results come after Apple's stellar fiscal first quarter results in January, which included a $13 billion profit on revenues of $46.3 billion. \nShares are down nearly 11% since peaking on April 9, putting the stock in \u201Ccorrection\u201D territory. \nImage courtesy of Flickr, Yagan Kiely"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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