The company's revenue accelerated to $28.27 billion in the quarter, up 39 per cent from the year-ago period.
Apple, whose financial year ended on September 24, 2011, was upbeat about its financial results, media reports said that earnings and revenue figures fell short of the market expectations.
In the previous quarter, Apple had registered a two-fold rise in net income and a 82 per cent revenue growth.
The company posted total sales of $108.2 billion for the full financial year, up from USD 65.2 billion posted in last fiscal.
The full-year net income nearly doubled to $25.92 billion, from $14.01 billion in the previous fiscal.
It was Apple's first quarterly earnings under chief executive Tim Cook, who took over reins from Steve Jobs in August.
Earlier this month, the company's co-founder
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