#10. Bigger than Google, Amazon, Facebook
Apple generated $43.7 billion in sales during the first three months of 2014. That's more than Google, Amazon, and Facebook COMBINED.
#9. Fewer phones sold, more money earned
Samsung sold twice as many phones as Apple in Q1, but generated about the same amount of revenue, and much less profit. (Samsung did $6.3 billion versus Apple's $13 billion.)
#8. iPhone revenue is more than that of Microsoft
Apple's iPhone business generated $26 billion in revenue in Jan-March period. Microsoft's ENTIRE business generated $20.04 billion over the same time. The iPhone is growing faster than Microsoft, too.
#7. iPad revenue three times more than Facebook's
The iPad generated $7.6 billion. It was considered a down quarter. Facebook did $2.5 billion last quarter. For further context, in the past 12 months, Facebook has generated $8.9 billion in revenue.
#6. Apple Q1 profit bigger than Amazon's in 20 years
Apple's net profit was $10.2 billion for the first quarter. That's more than what Amazon has earned in its entire 20-year existence.
#5. Can buy Facebook, Twitter, Tesla etc and still have change left
Apple has $150.6 billion in cash. It could buy Facebook at Facebook's current valuation with its cash. Or, it could go on a shopping spree and buy Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora and Spotify. When it was done buying those companies, it would still have $59 billion in cash to spend on anything else it wants.
#4. Holds more credit card info than any company in the world
Apple now has 800 million iTunes accounts. That's 800 million credit cards on file, which is more than any other company in the world.
#3. Adding more users than Twitter
Apple says it added 60 million new users in the last six months. Twitter, which is free, only added 23 million new users in the last six months.
#2. Apple Q1 net profit higher than Exxon Q4's
Apple's net profit was the 14th highest in history. It was also higher than Exxon's fourth-quarter profits. (Exxon hasn't yet reported Q1 earnings.)
#1. iTunes more profitable than Netflix
Apple's iTunes/software division did $4.57 billion in sales in Q1. For the last 12 months, Netflix did $4.37 billion in sales.
