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some crazy figures from apple

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:44:46 +0000

Apple has doubled its profits for the fourth quarter of 2011 as record sales of iPads, iPhones and Macs boosted net sales by 73% to $46.3bn (£27.8bn), while its margins grew fatter.

Full article from Brand Republic here:

http://www.brandrepublic.com/go/Digital%20AM/article/1113707/apple-doubles-profits-ipad-iphone-sales-explode/?DCMP=EMC-CONDigitalAM

Apple Records 90% Profit Jump

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:04:18 +0000

Apple has reported a 90% leap in its second quarter profits to $3bn (£1.94bn), boosted by huge demand for the iPhone.

See the full article here.

Mobile Devices hog Wi-Fi

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:24:41 +0000

Interesting article from Mashable reporting stats on Wi-Fi usage – more mobile devices than laptops use public Wi-Fi networks. You can read the article here.

This explains further the strain on the 3G networks we reported on a week or two ago. Read that here.

The Apple iPad

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:56:12 +0000

As a bit of an Apple fanboy, that was hugely disappointing. It is basically a big iPod Touch, sounds like a sanitary towel, and looks cumbersome to use – but more importantly there is no multitasking. On what is supposed to be the ‘new laptop’, you can only run one app at a time. You’d think that with that extra processing power you’d at least be able to type a word document while watching something in another window. But no.

Read the full details of the device here.

iTablet/iSlate/iPad

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:46:03 +0000

Apple’s new device will be launched tomorrow – you can read all the exhaustive rumours from Gizmodo here. What will it be called? What will it be able to do? How much will it cost? Will it revolutionise computing? Will you buy one? All will be revealed soon…

Orange get the iPhone

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:11:23 +0000

O2′s UK exclusivity has finally come to an end with the announcement that the iPhone will be available on Orange ‘later this year’. This can only be good for consumers – competition means falling prices… Full story here.

Microsoft v Apple

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:59:09 +0000

Bill Gates, no doubt buoyed by the blows he’s struck Google with Bing, is taking on another behemoth in Apple – plans are afoot for a Microsoft tablet, which will no doubt eat into Apple’s forthcoming device’s exposure and market share. Full story from Wired here.

Facebook Developer Slams Apple

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:22:52 +0000

Article from Revolution here.

And as the prescient observer notes below…

I agree more than wholeheartedly. We have had an app stuck in Apple’s review process for over a month with no feedback, no updates, no acknowledgement of the multiple queries we have submitted… it’s shambolic customer service and hugely demotivating for ambitious developers trying to do something new. Which I guess is part of the problem – if you produce a standard, staid app that replicates functionality of hundreds already available you’ll be fine – it’s the interesting, ground-breaking ones that are being stymied.

This will change everything…

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:39:00 +0000

Apple have announced changes to the way music will be sold through their iTunes store; it will now be DRM free, and priced on a sliding scale, 59p, 77p, and 99p.

The songs will also have better audio quality.

This opens them up to direct competition from other MP3 manufacturers; users can now buy music through the iTunes store and use it on their Creative/Sony/name-a-brand MP3 player.

This has two major ramifications for Apple – users wedded to iTunes could move away from iPods, costing Apple on the hardware side; or users of other MP3 players will begin to use the iTunes store and increase Apple’s share of the download market.

At face value, there seems more to be gained from opening the store – there are millions of users who will potentially download millions of tracks to their native players. Some may move away from iPods to other options, but Apple are effectively backing themselves to have the best hardware.