Category: Apple

After the recent holiday quarter, this is Apple’s second-biggest quarter ever.

Here are some highlights:

• Quarterly revenue of $39.2 billion (Up from $24.7 billion in the year-ago quarter)
• Quarterly net profit of $11.6 billion (Up from $6.0 billion in the year-ago quarter) That’s a 94 percent increase.
• International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

The iPhone continues to dominate Apple’s books:

• 35.1 million iPhones sold (88 percent increase year over year)
• 11.8 million iPads sold during the quarter, a 151 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter
• 4 million Macs sold during the quarter, a 7 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter
• 7.7 million iPods sold, a 15 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

Update: Apple’s PR statement is live. Here are some quotes:

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Amazon has released its “Send to Kindle” desktop software for Mac OS X.

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Shawn Blanc has reviewed and compared the Das Keyboard, the Matias Tactile Pro 3 and the Apple Extended II keyboard.

I won’t ruin his findings, or hold you up any longer. Go read this now.

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This is what happens when rumors lead to big page views.

(And this isn’t even really a rumor. Sigh.)

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I mean, I’m a happy iPhone customer on Verizon.

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Joshua Schnell, over at Macgasm:

Haven’t upgraded to Lion or iCloud because you still haven’t forked out money for Snow Leopard yet? No worries, Apple has your back. Apple is now giving away Snow Leopard to potential iCloud customers.

In an article sent to MobileMe customers, Apple has recommended that potential customers get in touch with Apple to receive a free DVD of Snow Leopard so that users can upgrade to Lion, and move to iCloud.

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Sometimes, you come across a part of Apple’s site that hasn’t been updated in a while, like I did today:

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Fast Company has unearthed some lost interview tapes featuring Steve Jobs. There’s a lot of good stuff in this piece. Be sure to check out the highlights page, too.

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Chris Matyszczyk at CNET:

Would you like to smell like your MacBook Pro?

No, not now that you’ve taken it to all the corners of your living space and the rear seats in coach on American Airlines. But the original, virginal, just-unboxed smell that apparently some find tantalizingly distinctive.

I have great news for you. For three Australian designers, collectively knows as Greatest Hits, decided that the world needed a fragrance that smells like Apple products. So, as 9to5 Mac sniffs it, they went to a “scent solutions company” called Air Aroma and put their noses to the grindstone.

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Enough is enough! I have it with these motherf’ing ads on this motherf’ing television.

Also, I don’t really like Zooey Deschanel, and totally not just because she broke up with Ben Gibbard. Like, OMG, BEN WE FEEL YOUR PAIN.

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This Defaults change is an oldie, but a goodie. I have it set up on all of my Macs.

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Harry McCracken:

You probably weren’t paying attention when a tiny company called Apple Computer introduced its second product, the Apple II microcomputer, at the West Coast Computer Faire on April 16 and 17, 1977. (I wasn’t.) You may never have owned an Apple II. (I didn’t.) But it’s still easy to get fascinated by the machine and its legacy. (I sure am.) And there are many ways to explore its world — many of which you can do without getting out of the chair you’re sitting in right now, thanks to the Web.

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