IPhone smartphone sales rose 5.5 percent to $ 50.6 billion in the quarter ended March 26. Sales of Mac computers even rose by almost 15 percent to $ 10.4 billion, but sales of iPads fell by two percent to $ 7.65 billion due to supply chain outages.
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The company has also performed well in the field of services, which includes, for example, streaming and cloud services. Service revenue rose 17 percent to $ 19.8 billion.
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Apple also announced that it has decided to increase its dividend by five percent to $ 0.23 per share. She added that her management had approved an additional $ 90 billion to repurchase its own shares.
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Luca Maestri, the company’s chief financial officer, said that the war in Ukraine had a negative impact on Apple’s sales, as a result of which the company withdrew from the Russian market. He warned that this negative impact would be even more pronounced in the current quarter. However, he did not provide any specific numbers, Reuters wrote.
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