Mac sales up by 28% to 4.1 million and iPad shifts 7.3 million units over last quarter. iPhone sales up 86% over same quarter last year.
Blockbuster quarter from Apple. I wish I’d bought shares a few years ago when they were in the gutter…
As always Horace Dediu nails it. Tim Cook sounds like he’s listened carefully and totally gets it.
Absolute nonsense piece in The Guardian asking if the iPhone is about to lose its mojo. I’m surprised how many people still read newspapers when they serve up piles of tosh like this. The Guardian is actually my favourite paper but this is one of the laziest and most one-sided pieces of journalism I’ve seen for a while.
There’s ample evidence available which shows that Verizon was desperate to get hold of the iPhone as its been struggling to attract new subscribers, something that AT&T has been doing at a much faster rate thanks to iPhone (and despite its much talked about inferior network quality).
The real story here should be whether Android can keep its momentum going now that the iPhone is available on both big networks, but the author prefers to say that the Verizon launch is too late to make a difference, despite the fact that smartphones only count for about a quarter of current US phone sales, leaving three quarters of the market still to play for.
You often just take what you read in the papers as being true, yet whenever they cover something that you have some knowledge of yourself you often see errors everywhere and this piece is no different. Poorly researched sensationalist rubbish that should have no place in a serious newspaper.
It’s just been announced that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking another leave of absence due to poor health. He states in the press release issued by Apple that he hopes to return and will continue to be involved in major strategic decisions for the company.
Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 and his frail appearance has continued to cast doubt on his long term future at the company. Credited for masterminding one of the biggest turnarounds in business history, Jobs is seen as being crucial to Apple maintaining its position as the world’s most dynamic and valuable tech company.
His reputation as an innovator and a perfectionist and his ability to spot future trends have resulted in some of the most successful tech products of the past decade, and fears that Apple will not have the same knack of launching hit product after hit product without Jobs have sent shares in the company tumbling whenever concerns regarding his health have been raised.
As the news of Jobs latest leave of absence spreads, shareholders are preparing to take a battering with many expecting shares to drop from $348 to as low as $250 when trading reopens tomorrow.
Apple today announced the brand new Apple TV. So far this device has been given ‘hobby’ status from Apple as it’s not matched the sales figures achieved by the likes of the iPhone and iPod.
The latest version of Apple TV is less than a quarter the size of the outgoing model and does away with storage completely, relying on streaming from either the iTunes Store or any other computers in the vicinity which have the latest version of iTunes installed.
It looks slick, but like the previous version is compromised by mostly relying on iTunes rental content for TV viewing capability. One interesting feature is that any iOS device can now stream directly to it, so pictures and video taken on your iPhone can be viewed easily on your TV.
Apple announced a huge and very welcome reduction in price to only $99 which sounded great until I seen that UK customers are being asked to stump up £99. Not fair.
Great post from Neven Mrgan on the subject of the new iMac compared to its two main all-in-one competitors. He’s not comparing the machines themselves but their websites.
This is one area where Apple continuously excels and the competition is beyond hopeless. Check out the URL’s for each product page. The iMac is just www.apple.com/imac. Simple, compact and memorable (just like the site itself). You won’t believe the mess of the HP page and it’s 4 line URL.
The simplicity Apple brings to the naming of its products actually says a lot about them. Mac’s tend to be quite elegant, uncluttered and easy to use. Would you prefer an Apple MacBook or an HP Pavilion Dv6-2113sa Entertainment? Or maybe an Acer Aspire Timeline 4810TZG-414G32MN. How about a Packard Bell Easynote Butterfly XS-EV-001UK? Thought not…
Apple today announced some major new products, with long overdue updates to the iMac, Mac Pro, Cinema Display and an innovative new multi-touch trackpad for desktop systems they’re calling the Magic Trackpad.
Only a couple of years ago these products would have been launched with some fanfare, but now only the iMac even makes it onto the Apple homepage (and then only very small at the bottom of the page along with the iPhone case program and the iOS 4.01 software update). The big story is still that the “iPhone 4 is here”, old news now surely.
It really does show where Apple is heading though. The external Mac Pro case design hasn’t seen a major update for over 7 years (over 4 generations in computer time) and before today the Mac Pro hadn’t received any updates at all for over a year and a half. The iMac, once the biggest thing in Apple land, had gone over a year before this update.
Apple certainly does seem to be relegating it’s OS X machines to second class citizen status as it concentrates on the iPhone and iPad which now account for more revenue than desktop and laptop Mac divisions added together.
Brilliant post over at Counter Notions regarding how we take what the iPhone has give us for granted. To all the people who have jumped on the Apple slaying bandwagon of late, read the article here
from Counter Notions…
But it’s sobering to remember that a single device by a company with zero experience in the industry and against all odds caused such a tidal wave of change. Change didn’t come because of Nokia, Microsoft, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, RIM or any other player in the market for the past 15 years bet their company on it. Android and webOS weren’t there before the iPhone.