Quarterly iPhone sales were 6.8 million units. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said that the total number of iPhone sales in the quarter exceeded the 6.1 million total sales of original iPhone. Oppenheimer also said the company had met its goal of selling more than 10 million iPhones during calendar year 2008. (By the end of September, Apple had sold 9.3 million iPhones. Presumably Oppenheimer was suggesting that in the intervening 21 days Apple has sold more than 700,000 additional iPhones, putting the company over the top.)

In another sign of strong iPhone sales, Apple said that it sold more phones in the quarter than Blackberry-maker Research In Motion (RIM).

"Apple beat RIM!" said Apple CEO Steve Jobs during a phone call with analysts and reporters. "In our most recent quarter, RIM sold 6.1 million Blackberry devices, compared to our 6.9 iPhones," Jobs said. "Apple outsold RIM last quarter, and this is a milestone for us. RIM is a good company that makes good products, and so it is surprising that we could outsell them in any quarter after only 15 months in the market."

Jobs said that when measured by revenues, at $4.6 billion in phone revenue Apple "has become the world's third-largest mobile phone supplier," after Nokia ($12.7 billion) and Samsung ($5.9 billion), and ahead of Sony Ericsson ($4.2 billion), LG ($3.4 billion), Motorola ($3.2 billion), and RIM ($2.1 billion). "Pretty amazing," Jobs said. "Not bad for being in the market only 15 months."

Apple shipped 2.6 million Macs for the quarter, a 21 percent unit growth and 17 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter, and a five percent growth in units over the previous consecutive quarter. The company sold over 11 million iPods, which is an eight percent unit growth and three percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter, but essentially the same sales as the company made in the previous consecutive quarter.