Apple-holic's shocking AAPL stats and fiscal facts

Apple's 91-day quarter yields some impressive numbers -- take them apart a little and you get the kind of stats you can reel off at a dinner party without being seen as too utterly crushing a bore, for example, did you know there's one iPhone being sold for every two people being born into this world today?

Apple sold 16.24 million iPhones in the December quarter. That sure is a lot of iPhones, and while dwarfed by the 650 million bottles of Heinz Ketchup sold around the world each year means Apple sells more iPhones each year than there are cars sold worldwide.

Some other facts from an article from Business insider on Apple's last fiscal year that ended September 25, 2010:

Apple generated $65 billion of revenue last year. That's bigger than the GDP of Iraq, Croatia, Libya, Ecuador, and more than 100 other countries
Apple's $65 billion of revenue makes Apple officially bigger than Microsoft ($62 billion)
Apple's growth last year IN EUROPE ALONE was $7 billion. That's bigger than the GDP of Liechtenstein.
iPhones now account for 39% of Apple's overall revenue. iPhones did not exist 4 years ago.
Apple sold 40 million iPhones last year. That's 110,000 iPhones sold per day.
iTunes--Apple's online music, video, and app store--racked up sales of $4 billion last year. That's $1 billion more revenue than the $3 billion generated by one of world's biggest music companies, Warner Music Group.
Apple sold $9.8 billion worth of stuff in its retail stores last year. That's bigger than Saks, Barnes & Noble, Ann Taylor, Tiffany, Dick's Sporting Goods, RadioShack, and Bed Bath & Beyond.
Apple's retail-store sales grew by $3 billion last year. That's bigger than Tiffany's whole business!
Apple opened 44 new stores last year, ending the year with 317. Each store sold an average of $34 million worth of stuff, up from $26 million the year before.
Apple's stores are mind-bogglingly productive: They each sell an average of $93,150 worth of stuff every day.
Apple's retail stores now have 26,500 full-time employees, or 84 per store. Each of these employees sells about $370,000 worth of Apple stuff each year.
Most of Apple's revenue (~$45 billion) comes from product categories that Apple has invented in the past 10 years (iPods, iPhones, iPads, iTunes). Almost half ($30 billion) comes from product categories Apple has invented in the past 4 years.
Apple spent only $1.7 billion on research and development last year. Microsoft, with smaller sales and vastly slower growth, spent $8.7 billion.
Apple spent only $5.5 billion on sales, marketing, and general and administrative expenses last year. Microsoft spent $17 billion.
Apple generated $625 of revenue from each of the 40 million iPhones it sold last year.
And $164 of revenue for every iPod sold.
And $1,279 for every Mac sold.
And $665 for every iPad.

And two items from yesterday's conference call on Apple's blow out 2011 1st Fiscal Quarter and other sources:

By Christmas Day, 2010, Apple had sold 14,790,000 iPads, 7.33 million of those in the last quarter alone.
Apple sold 4.13 million Macs during the quarter, 23% more than the same quarter a year ago, a growth rate 8X faster than the overall growth rate of 3% of the PC market in general.
On Christmas Day, the close of Apple's 1st Fiscal Quarter 2011, Apple was sitting on $61 Billion in cash in the bank.
Apple is the second largest corporation in the world by Market Cap, second only to Exxon Mobile... and closing fast on it.

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