To put that in perspective, that's just under ten times the amount generated by the whole of digital recorded music in 2011 ($5.2bn) according to yesterday's IFPI estimates.
The results, for the three months to December 31, compare to revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in Apple's Q1 2011.
Gross margin was 44.7 percent compared to 38.5% in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58% of the quarter's revenue.
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