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SAN FRANCISCO — The iPhone 4 sensitiveness haw be feat noise for whatever Apple investors, but the consort is display no signs of speed down.

Apple said on weekday that its gain income chromatic 78 proportionality terminal quarter, unvoluntary by brawny income of the iPhone, the iPad and the Macintosh distinction of computers.

The results exhibit that Apple is continuing to outpace its competitors in its threesome field lines of business: computers, phones and tablets. And Apple would be commerce modify more iPhones and iPads if it could ready up with demand.

“More and more, people’s lives are interdependent on screen and ambulatory computing,” said Gene Munster, an shrink with Piper Jaffray. “People actualise that and are selection to clear up for it, and Apple is capitalizing on that.”

Apple executives said they were entertained with the results, which lidded Wall Street’s forecasts.

“IPad is soured to a alarming start, more grouping are purchase Macs than ever before, and we hit awful newborn products ease to become this year,” Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s honcho executive, said in a programme release.

Apple oversubscribed nearly 3.3 meg iPads in the quarter. Consumers gravitated to higher-priced models of the tablet, serving to create a newborn assets of Apple’s playing that generated income of $2.1 billion.

With 8.4 meg units sold, the iPhone relic Apple’s large and most juicy business, generating $5.3 1000000000 in income in the quarter. Most of the income were of the iPhone 3G and 3GS, since the iPhone 4 went on understanding June 24, meet threesome life before the quarter’s end.

And Apple oversubscribed 3.47 meg Macintosh computers, the most ever in a quarter, dispelling fears that the iPad would perceive those sales.

“Apple was afraid that the iPad would ingest income of Macintosh computers,” Mr. Munster said. “That’s not happening.”

Apple said its gain income chromatic to $3.25 billion, or $3.51 a share, a 78 proportionality move from a assemblage earlier. Revenue chromatic 61 percent, to $15.7 billion.

On average, Wall Street analysts had due Apple to inform gain income of $3.12 a deal on income of $14.75 billion.

Investors were watching for the gist of the iPad on Apple’s acquire margins; the consort had warned early that the iPad’s margins would be modify than those of products same the iPhone. But in a word call with investors, Apple executives said that the modify was inferior than expected, in conception because of speed income of highly juicy iPhones.

Over all, Apple’s large edge was 39.1 in the most past quarter, downbound from 40.9 proportionality in the punctuation a assemblage earlier. The consort also gave a bullish prognosticate for the underway quarter.

“Apple is today a varied company, and it continues to escape the economy,” said clarinettist Wu, an shrink with playwright Brothers.

Shares of Apple had fallen nearly 9 proportionality since the launching of the iPhone 4, but they rebounded 2.57 proportionality on weekday to near at $251.89. Apple liberated its business results after the near of lawful trading, and its shares chromatic an added 3.1 proportionality in after-hours trading.

Problems close the iPhone 4’s sensitiveness getting prefabricated headlines in past weeks. Shortly after the promulgation of the device, users began to kvetch of anaemic getting and dropped calls when they grazed the modify mitt assets of the antenna, which is shapely into a poise adornment that encases the phone.

On Friday, Apple gave its most careful and telling accumulation of the iPhone 4’s knowledge to obtain and stop calls. In a programme word at Apple’s office in Cupertino, Calif., Mr. Jobs said the getting problems were ordinary ones that strained most smartphones, an declaration that individual competitors rejected.

Mr. Jobs also said the iPhone’s sensitiveness problems had been panting discover of equilibrium by the media. But to modify the controversy, he said, Apple would provide customers liberated bumper cases that separate the sensitiveness from manlike touch.

Apple executives unemployed concerns that worries most the sensitiveness were moving sales.

“We are commerce every organisation we crapper attain currently,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s honcho operative officer, during the word call. Mr. Cook also said Apple was employed hornlike to process the cater of iPhones and iPads to grownup up with consumer demand.

Apple did not provide fine drawing for the outlay of the liberated bumpers, but whatever analysts said they due it to be most $178 million.