Tim Cook says that Apple's syndrome raises annual profit

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said on Friday the company is committed to raising its annual profit, in a move designed to appease investors, but also a sign that he is no longer a front-month technology company in the world the ability to continue to grow.

With growing fears that the growth in the mobile iPhone sales has peaked, the main growth of mutual funds in the United States among the largest sellers of Apple shares over the past six months, sparking speculation that the explosive growth of the company has time AFL.

The Apple company had forecast last January first decline in revenue in 13 years, he reported the slowest increase at all in her phone shipments iPhone with the appearance of signs of weakness in the critical Chinese market.

The company's shares were steady in trading Friday afternoon, but saw a decrease of 25% from the highest level in 10 months.

The Apple Company has offered a regular cash dividend in 2012 after many years in which anything not paid since 1995. In the last year paid about $ 1.98 per share cash dividend, or $ 11.4 billion in a comprehensive manner.

He also said Cook, speaking at the annual meeting of the company in Cupertino, California, Apple has been the strongest advocates of the privacy of its customers and their personal safety, and in light of a public battle with the US government to access your iPhone telephone port of San Bernardino attacks bloody.

It was Apple's first on Thursday has provided legal memorandum has asked a federal court in California revoked an order of the last week ordering the abolition of encrypted phone iPhone own port attacks, arguing that it would such a move would violate the rights to freedom of hers expression, beyond the will of Congress and endanger the security devices Apple and other risk.

Cook said: "These are the things true that must be done." He added: "The fact it difficult not afraid."

Separately, a US appeals court on Friday overturned a court ruling requiring Samsung to pay $ 120 million, to give the maker of smart phones, South Korea finally a big win in the old dispute with its rival to come Apple patents.