Last week, Apple began shipping the latest version of its laptop, Mac Pro, from a manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas (the US).

In 2013, Apple App Store marked its 50 billionth download, Cook added.

“Together we've shown the world that innovation at Apple goes beyond our products to the way we do business... I consider myself the luckiest person in the world for the opportunity to work at this amazing company with all of you,” he said.

In India too, Apple saw iPhone sales beating all expectations to soar 400 percent in the April-June 2013 quarter.

Earlier this year, Cook had hinted that Apple had lots of products lined up in 2014 including some new product segments.

In a conference call with investors following the firm's fourth quarter earnings, Cook said consumers would “see exciting new products from us in the fall and across 2014.”

“In terms of new product categories specifically, if you look at the skills that Apple has from hardware/software and services, and the incredible app ecosystem, this set of things is very unique. No one has a set of skills like this.”

“We obviously believe that we can use our skills at building other great products that are in categories that represent areas that we do not participate today. We're pretty confident about that,” he had said.

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