Apple posts record-breaking results for holiday quarter: 37.04 million iPhones, 15.43 million iPads, 5.2 million Macs 15.4 million iPods
Wow.
Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings Ever
All-Time Record iPhone, iPad and Mac Sales
CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. [...]
Target says it will launch upscale Apple shops in 25 of its discount stores
Retailer Target will soon start offering Apple products in select discount stores that carry everything from dog food to electronics.
Reuters reported that Minnesota-headquartered retailer Target confirmed plans to dedicate a special section to Apple products within 25 of its discount stores across the United States:
Target also confirmed during a presentation on Thursday that it will have [...]
The Cord-On-Board iPhone Case Hides A Charging Cable Inside
After a decade of iPods, Apple’s little white charging cable seem to be pretty much everywhere these days. Open a random drawer, there one will sit. Ask a pack of strangers, “Hey — anyone got an iPhone cable?” and half a dozen will be thrown your way. At this point, it’s almost hard to not [...]
Andy Rubin: Android Had A Jolly Good Christmas With 3.7M Activations
Google SVP Andy Rubin took to Twitter again today, not to delete one of his tweets but to publish a brand new one, saying Android saw 3.7 million activations in two days (Christmas day and the day before).
He also posted it on his Google+ account, just in case you were wondering.
Probably, Rubin was trying [...]
Apple saw record sales this holiday season, 12 times the amount of activations on Christmas Day
Apple saw record-setting sales this holiday season, according to Localytics. So well, that 12.5 times more iOS devices were activated over Christmas than past weekends. For comparison sake: there were 21 times more iPods compared to 14 times more iPhones. The iPods were most likely gifted to younger children who do not yet have a cell phone. At any [...]
Apple makes changes to bring on more partnerships for iAd
Wall Street Journal reports this evening that Apple isn’t see the success they’d like with their iAd platform. The company, who deploys iAd as an advertising platform throughout their iOS devices, is making changes in hopes of attracting more developers and ad spending to in the program. First off, Apple is reportedly lowering the entry [...]
Apple adds bogus AppleTVs, iPads, iPods and iPhones to another config file, won’t deter developers
Earlier today, Mark Tweeted the amusing new file Apple put in iOS 5.1 beta 2 which includes a lot of silly references to devices that don’t exist. This isn’t entirely new – Apple had done this to another file in iOS 5.1B1.
As you’d probably expect, it isn’t going to stop developers from finding the special sause [...]
Apple begins Black Friday 2011 sale in the United States with iOS device, Mac, and accessory discounts
With all of the items and sale prices that we revealed on Tuesday, Apple has kicked off their annual Black Friday sale in the United States, Mexico, and Canada (North America). The sale is very similar to Apple’s offerings in past years, but does give better discounts to higher capacities of the iPads and iPods. The deals [...]
Your best Black Friday deals are on at 9to5Mac and 9to5Toys
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Like everyone, we’re gearing up for Black Friday with the best online and offline deals on electronics products that our readers are after. Always ongoing, 9to5Toys.com has the best deals on Apple products and accessories from around the web, including some cool new stuff you might not have seen elsewhere. However, starting on Black Friday morning at Midnight, [...]
Apple says stop using first-generation iPod nano due to battery overheating, opens worldwide replacement program
Apple has opened up a replacement program for the first-generation iPod nano due to overheating issues. These affected units were sold between September 2005 and December 2006 and include a manufacturing defect sourced at a single Apple battery supplier for the first edition of ultra-small and thin screened iPods from Apple. Apple says the possibility [...]