Over on The Motley Fool blog there’s an outstanding breakdown of Apple’s sales and profit growth according to region, and the results might surprise you. Looking at the last five years (i.e. 2005 to 2010), Apple’s profit growth in the Asia Pacific region absolutely dwarfs that of the Americas, Europe, or Japan (not included in the Asia Pacific region classification).
Of course much of this growth can be attributed to the corresponding economic boom in the Asia region, which Apple has so far managed to capitalize upon. The good folks over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog* point out that the company’s good fortune will likely continue, particularly if the iPhone can soon make the jump to China Mobile:
Apple sells the iPhone through China Unicom, which has 170 million subscribers (a number that pales in comparison with 600 million subscribers on China Mobile). Overall, China has over 900 million mobile phone users. If Apple could produce an iPhone for China Mobile and China Telecom, its resulting revenue and profits could go off the charts.
As we wrote here back in April, a number of Asian regions like Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong are really warming up to Mac OS X as well. And while the operating system has yet to really take off in China or Indonesia, the iPhone could serve as a ‘gateway drug’ of sorts to give consumers an idea of what Apple tastes like.
*Disclosure: I’ve blogged over on TUAW in the past.
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