Apple has made a profit of 640 USD from App Store - Windows new generation OS will launch soon

Perhaps Cook did not expect that in the year of the epidemic, Apple's business would usher in rapid growth. The financial report released at the end of April showed that Apple’s net revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 (January to March 2021) was US$89.58 billion, a year-on-year increase of 54%; net profit was US$ 23.63 billion, a year-on-year increase of 110%. iPhone is still Apple's most profitable business. In the second quarter, revenue from iPhone was 49.738 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for more than 55% of overall revenue, an increase of 71% year-on-year. It is worth noting that in the quarter, Apple’s revenue in Greater China was US$17.73 billion, a year-on-year increase of 87%, which was much higher than the overall growth rate. It shows that at the moment of the epidemic, the consumption power of Chinese people is still strong, and the demand for high-priced Apple products such as iPhone 12 is strong.

In the entire fiscal year of 2020, Apple’s revenue reached 274.5 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 5% over the previous fiscal year, and its net profit increased by 3.9% year-on-year to 57.4 billion U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to a year’s profit. This profitability has embarrassed many domestic smartphone manufacturers. But what's even more impressive is that Apple earlier announced the 2020 sales revenue of the App Store platform, which created sales of 643 billion US dollars, an increase of 24% from the 519 billion US dollars in 2019. Although this revenue needs to be shared with developers, compared with other hardware products, this service has less investment and higher profits, which can be described as "laying down and making money."

Apple pointed out that after 2015, small developers increased by 40% and now account for 90% of App Store developers. The so-called small developer means that the total number of downloads of the App launched by them in a year is less than 1 million times, and the total sales volume does not exceed 1 million U.S. dollars. Perhaps to play down the pressure of the App Store’s monopoly litigation, Apple revealed that in the past five years, 1/4 of the small developers in the App Store have average annual revenue growth of over 25%, and as many as 80% of the small developers can Earn revenue from users in more than 40 countries. Apple CEO Cook also said: Developers on the App Store prove every day that there is no more innovative, flexible, and dynamic market on the planet than the App economy.

Microsoft will release the next-generation operating system on June 24:

Following its release at the end of July 2015, Windows 10 is nearly six years old. Starting with Win 10, Microsoft has adopted a major update strategy in half a year. After several updates such as 19H2, 20H2, 21H1, Win 10 has long been different from Build 10240 in 2015. Today, Microsoft announced that it will hold a web conference at 23:00, June 24, Beijing time. This conference will be conducted in a live broadcast, and the "new generation of Windows" will be displayed to the public.

As early as many years ago, Microsoft announced that there will be no next-generation Windows operating system after Windows 10, and will not release new versions like Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. So this time there shouldn't be such a surprising product as Window 11. But unlike regular updates, this time Microsoft called the next generation of Windows. Microsoft should bring a different product. You can expect a brand new Windows 10 system to appear. Although Microsoft has done a good job of confidentiality this time, little information has been disclosed. However, a new version of Win 10 was suspected on the Internet not long ago. It adopted a brand-new UI system called Sun Valley, and redesigned the entire interface based on Fluent, bringing a refreshing feeling. In addition to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's speech, Panos Panay, the father of Surface and the head of Windows hardware, will also be on stage, so it is not ruled out that there will be new hardware products. This Windows update is also the first important update since Panos Panay, the father of Surface, took over the Windows team. It is hoped that Panos Panay, which is a hardware manufacturer, can inject new vitality into Windows.