Apple released their Q3 results last night, and here are some of the things which caught our eye:

• Best revenue in Apple's history for non-holiday quarter [note- Christmas quarter is always boosts sales over rest of year].
• $8.34 billion in revenue
• $1.23 billion in profit
• 2.6 million Macs sold this quarter
• 4% growth in Mac sales, with 3% decline in industry sales
• iPod touch sales grew 130% over last year
• Apple still hold over 70% share of MP3 player market
• 5.2 million iPhone handsets sold this quarter
• 1.5 billion AppStore applications downloaded so far
• 8 billion iTunes Store songs downloaded to date
• 36 million visitors to Apple Stores this quarter
• 25 new stores during 2009
• Apple gross margin was 36.3%
• Apple now hold $31.1 billion in cash and short term investments
• 65,000 apps available from App Store- Nokia and RIM have 1000-2000 in their stores, and Android has 5,000

For more details, see our Apple Financials page for full details.

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