Apple  posted its results for the last quarter, Apple made a net profit of $8.8bn in the three months ending in June, up 21% from a year earlier but lower than forecasts by financial analysts.

It is also the smallest increases in years for the April to June period. Apple will pay shareholders a dividend of $2.65 per share on 16 August.

Apple has nearly doubled the iPad sales and sold 28 percent more iPhones than in the same period a year earlier. Sales of iPod  fell 10 percent while Mac computer sales flat lined, up just 2 percent.