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Apple Kicks Ass with Record Q1 Results; Sells 37m iPhones, 15.4m iPads, 5.2m Macs

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Jan 242012
 
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Apple’s fiscal first quarter (ended December 31, 2011) results were like its products – sizzling.

The company reported a profit of $13.06 billion ($13.87 per share) on revenues of $46.33 billion.

* Click here to see Apple’s Segment-wise Results for Fiscal Q1, 2012

iPhone, iPad Going Gangbusters

No surprise that sales of the company’s hot iPhone 4S and iPad 2 were at a scorching pace during the holiday season.

During the quarter, Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones, a 128% unit growth over the year-ago quarter.

Tablet sales came in strong too.

Apple sold 15.43 million iPads, a 111% unit increase over the year-ago quarter.

Apple Q1 2012 Results

Sales of Mac computers grew modestly in comparison.

Apple sold 5.2 million Macs (including an iMac to us), a 26% unit increase over the year-ago quarter.

Sales of the iPod music and video devices hit a pothole again as their functions have been subsumed in the iPhone. Apple sold 15.4 million iPods, a 21% unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

For the current quarter, Apple set a modest revenue target of $32.5 billion and expect diluted earnings per share of about $8.50.

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Apple Juggernaut Rolls On, $6.62b Profit in 4Q; Sells 17.07m iPhones, 11.12m iPads, 4.89m Macs

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Oct 182011
 
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Apple today announced record fiscal fourth quarter results, the company’s first earnings announcement after its iconic co-founder Steve Jobs died earlier this month.

For the three months ended September 24, 2011, Apple reported a profit of $6.62 billion (7.05 cents per share) on revenues of $28.27 billion.

During the same period last year, Apple’s net profit was $4.31 billion ($4.64 per share) on revenues of $20.34 billion.

Bloomberg reports that Apple has exceeded analysts’ profit expectation for 32 straight quarters.

Such results as Apple declared today are the dream and envy of every business in the world.

Apple Juggernaut

Apple is on a roll, and like a juggernaut crushing its digital media rivals, particularly on the tablets front.

Here are highlights on the performance of some of Apple’s key product lines during the fourth quarter:

* The Company sold 17.07 million iPhones, a 21% unit growth over the year-ago quarter.

* Apple sold 11.12 million iPads tablets , a 166% unit increase over the year-ago quarter.

* The Company sold 4.89 million Macs, a 26% unit increase over the year-ago quarter.

* Apple sold 6.62 million iPods, a 27% unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

iPhone Sales Lower than Expected

Sales of iPhones were lower than analyst expectations.

That was likely because prospective customers were sitting on the sidelines waiting for the release of the new iPhone (4S).

The iPhone 4S became available on August 14 and in just three days Apple sold four million units.

For the full fiscal 2011, Apple reported a profit of $25.92 billion on revenues of $108.25 billion. This compares with a profit of $14.01 billion on revenues of $65.23 billion in fiscal 2010.

For the first fiscal quarter of 2012, Apple expects revenue of about $37 billion and diluted earnings per share of about $9.30.

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Singham Roars 1m Times on Day One

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Jul 222011
 
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Apple is tooting the horn that its new Mac OS X Singam oops Lion has been downloaded more than a million times on Day One.

Apple's Mac OS Singham Debuts

Singham oops Lion is Apple’s eight major release of its Mac OS X.

Apple executives say that Lion offers 250 new features to the Mac, including:

* Multi-Touch gestures

* System-wide support for full screen apps

* Mission Control, an innovative view of everything running on your Mac

* Easy access to the Mac App Store

* Launchpad, a new home for all your apps

* A redesigned Mail app

SearchIndia.com is a great fan of Singham’s smaller sibling, the iOS, Apple’s operating system for its mobile products like the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

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World’s Greatest Epitaph – On Steve Jobs’ Tombstone

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Jul 072011
 
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Steve Jobs is Dead

Entrepreneurs come, and entrepreneurs go.

But will there be another like the greedy SOB Steve Jobs?

Nah, we don’t think so!

The man’s been on the mountain-top, and he’s been down in the valley.

Hell, our legend has been in India too (no kidding, schmucks) during his teen angst days.

Now the digital media messiah floats in the rarefied, exclusive air of the stratosphere.

Ultimate Epitaph

Who says an epitaph has to be filled with words.

Can Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs get a better epitaph than the below table?

Steve Jobs' Epitaph - Apple's Crowning Glory

For the record, we own an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2 and remain mostly satisfied.

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Apple Debuts iCloud; Juggernaut Seems Unstoppable

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Jun 062011
 
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By Golly, the Apple digital media juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down.

Today, at  the Apple Developer Conference in San Francisco the digital media hottie introduced its much ballyhooed iCloud service and disclosed a bunch of other digital media milestones as well.

iCloud is a set of free cloud services that work seamlessly with applications on Apple’s iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store users’ content in iCloud and automatically and wirelessly push it to all their devices. When anything changes on one of their above devices, all of their devices are wirelessly updated near instantly.

How cool!

The free iCloud services include a rearchitected version of the former shaky MobileMe services (Contacts, Calendar and Mail), App Store and iBookstore purchases and automatic daily backup of iOS devices to iCloud over Wi-Fi when users charge their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Content backed up to the cloud includes purchased music, apps and books, Camera Roll (photos and videos), device settings and app data. When users replace their iOS device, they are supposed to be able to easily restore all their content from iCloud by entering Apple ID and password during setup.

Users get a generous 5GB of free storage for their mail, documents and backup. Storage of music, apps and books purchased from Apple doesn’t count towards this 5GB total. Consumers can buy more storage.

Apple also rolled out a new $25 per year service called iTunes Match that replaces consumers’ music not purchased at iTunes with a 256 kbps AAC DRM-free version in the cloud if it can match it to the 18 million songs in the iTunes Store.

iCloud is set to debut this fall along with the iOS 5, Apple’s update to its mobile operating system.

Here are the digital media milestones Apple disclosed today:

* 25 million iPad tablets sold in the last 14 months. Continue reading »

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Apple ‘Surprised’ by iPhone Reception Problems – Ha ha ha

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Jul 022010
 
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Whatever the f*ck Steve Jobs is drinking, we’d like to have a few sips of the same, please.

Here, read this weird statement put out today by Apple regarding the reception issues when users grip its new iPhone 4 in a particular way:

We were surprised when we read reports of reception problems, and we immediately began investigating them.

Surprised to hear of reception problems on the phone?

Ha ha ha.

What the f*ck. Can it get any worse than bad reception on a mobile phone.

No one at a seasoned company like Apple heard of QA testing before launching a major product.?

Just does not sound kosher, the surprise bit.

Flood of Complaints
Responding to a deluge of complaints about the reception issues with the iPhone 4, the folks at Apple argue that gripping almost any mobile phone, be it iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, as well as many Droid, Nokia and RIM, in certain ways would reduce its reception by 1 or more bars.

Maybe, maybe not.

But some iPhone 4 customers have complained the new device can drop 4 or 5 bars when tightly held in a way covering the black strip in the lower left corner of the metal band.

Since this is a far bigger drop than normal, irate customers have not surprisingly charged that the iPhone 4 comes with a faulty antenna design.

Boy, that complaint on design must have been pretty galling to Apple, which prides itself on coming out with the most stylish digital media widgetry.

Apple says it investigated the cause of this dramatic drop in bars and came to a ‘simple and surprising’ conclusion:

Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many Continue reading »

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