The world’s most valuable company almost doubled profits after selling an incredible 35 million iPhones in one quarter this year. Apple also sold 11.8m iPads — up 151 per cent on last year — and 4 million Macs. Nearly 8m iPods were bought — down 15 per cent.

Boss Tim Cook said he was “thrilled” with results that prove Apple’s total dominance of the world’s consumer markets.

Revenues in the quarter to the end of March hit a staggering 24 billion pounds.