CEO Steve Jobs, who joined the earnings announcements last October, did not participate today. Jobs, 55, announced yesterday that he was taking an "so I can focus on my health."

As he usually does, chief operating officer Tim Cook, who will run in Jobs' absence and is the if Jobs does not return, was on the call with Wall Street analysts.

Apple posted record revenues of $26.7 billion for the quarter -- the second quarter in a row that the Apple broke the $20 billion mark -- which represents an increase of 71% over the same period last year and a 31% higher result than 2010's third quarter. Profits were $6 billion, another quarterly record.

"We're running out of superlatives," Ezra Gottheil, an analyst at Technology Business Research, said of Apple's numbers.

"Pretty solid, very solid, and across the board," added Brian Marshall, an analyst with Gleacher & Co. "The entire [business] model continues to work."