Apple on Wednesday announced the financial results for its fiscal 2006 2nd quarter , which ended on April 1 , 2006 . The caller posted gross of $ 4.36 billion and a last quarterly profit of $ 410 million , or $ .47 per diluted share . These beat omen earnings of $ .38 per parcel . It was the 2nd high quarter in price of sales in Apple history .

Apple has cumulatively shipped more than 50 million iPod now , said Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer

“ We continue to be very happy in our progress in the Intel conversion , ” suppose Oppenheimer , who said that the changeover would be completed by year’s - ending .

In a topic the company touched on during the last quarter , Oppenheimer note that the break in Mac sales was more pronounce this fourth , as customers waited on both a terminated modulation of all Mac system , and the conversion to universal binaries by third party software program trafficker .

The caller also bring forth $ 485 million in euphony taxation ; this was driven by iTunes Music Store sale , iPod accessories , and the iPod Hi - Fi . The company noted that the iTunes Music Store now account for 87 pct of all legally purchase and downloaded music in the United States , offering more than 2.9 million strain and 70 television set show .

Oppenheimer take down that NPD Techworld shows that the iPod ’s market share has increased to 78 percentage in March , up from 71 percentage in December , and claimed that the companionship estimates 30 per centum of new elevator car sell in the United States will propose verbatim iPod integration .

In addition to the United States , the iPod is also the conduct MP3 histrion in England , Canada , Japan , and Australia , and it watch the respite of Europe and Asia as places to grow market share .

“ The MP3 thespian market has a circumstances of room to grow , ” said Oppenheimer , compare its market insight with digital cameras .

Apple generated $ 336 million at its brick and mortar retail Apple Stores , opening six new memory board during quarter . The ship’s company state to gestate 40 new stores in fiscal 2006 , of which roughly 30 will be in the United States .

The company is target between 4.2 billion and 4.4 billion in revenue for the quarter ending in June 2006 , factoring a continued pause in demand in its Mac business , and lower gross profit for Macs and iPods due mostly to training sale and an iPod shuffle price step-down .

Q&A with analyst

In response to analyst questions about iPod demand — sales dropped to 8.5 million from 14.1 million the former twenty-five percent — Apple attribute this to an extra week in the previous twenty-five percent which fell between Christmas and the New Year — a key workweek during the shopping year .

Despite the declivity , “ we ’re very , very well-chosen with it , ” said Apple ’s Oppenheimer .

In reply to a interrogation on how it planned to grow its international iPod market share , Apple revealed that market share increased in the UK to 40 percent , Japan to 54 pct , Canada to 45 percent , and Australia to 58 percentage .

“ If you look outside the international countries , such as Italy and Spain , China and Korea , market share is much less than in [ the UK , Japan , Canada , and Australia ] . We are focalise on increase that part by increase out local publicizing and points of statistical distribution , ” say Oppenheimer .

In reception to an psychoanalyst question as to when the pause in sales would end , Apple COO Tim Cook reject to foretell when that would fall out , but noted that the company is on lead to have all of its products shipped on fourth dimension . He also alluded to Adobe , observe that once Photoshop and the Creative Suite were Universal apps it would help advance Mac gross sales ,

In response to an psychoanalyst dubiousness as to what Apple ’s eventual plans were with Boot Camp , Cook note , “ we have no desire and no plan to support Windows . ”