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Holiday queues and sold-out windows tell the story better than any spreadsheet. Apple closed its fiscal Q1, the holiday quarter that ended on Dec 27, 2025, with $143.8 billion in revenue — a 16% jump from a year earlier.
The profit figure reads like a subheading: just over $42 billion in net income. Short sentence. Big impact. But the real drumbeat came from the iPhone. iPhone revenue hit an all-time high of $85.3 billion, fuelled by intense demand for the iPhone 17 after its September debut.
How many devices are we talking about? Apple now counts roughly 2.5 billion active devices worldwide. That installed base has become the companys secret sauce, powering repeat purchases and, crucially, subscriptions.
Services, long the steady hand behind hardware cycles, posted their best quarter ever at $30 billion, up about 14% year over year. Meanwhile the hardware picture was mixed: wearables, home and accessories dipped to $11.49 billion, down 2%; Mac revenue softened to $8.39 billion, slipping about 6%; and iPad rose modestly to $8.5 billion, a 6% increase.
The iPhone still sets the tempo, while services keep the band playing between cycles.
Numbers tell one story, but the market will be watching where Apple steers that momentum next. Will services continue to widen margins? Can Macs and wearables stage a rebound? For now the holiday quarter hammered home a simple truth: new device launches still move the needle — and an enormous installed base makes those moves reverberate across the business.
Source: gsmarena
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