Apple has received a record revenue during the crisis.

In the first quarter of 2009 fiscal year, which ended Dec. 27, 2008 calendar, Apple has earned a record 10.17 billion dollars. A year ago, Apple quarterly revenue was 9.6 billion dollars. This was reported in the press release the company.
Apple Net profit in the first quarter of 2009 fiscal year amounted to 1.61 billion dollars or 1.78 dollars per share. A year ago, Apple quarterly profit amounted to 1.58 billion U.S. dollars, or 1.76 per share.
According to the report Apple, for the three months the company has sold just over 2.5 million computers Macintosh, which is nine percent higher than a year ago. Your iPod in the first quarter of 2009 fiscal year have been sold more than 22.7 million, which is three percent higher than a year ago.
Smart Phone iPhone for three months has sold 4.4 million. As compared with the first quarter of 2008 fiscal year, an increase of 88 percent. Quarterly sales of Apple TV for the year increased more than threefold.
In line with the forecast guidance Apple, in the second quarter of 2009 fiscal year, the company should earn from 7.6 to 8 billion dollars. The expected profit in the second quarter ranging from 0.9 to one dollar per share.
Note that the earnings of a number of IT-companies has decreased significantly due to the global economic crisis. For example, in the fourth quarter of 2008, Intel profit fell to ten times.