Posts Tagged ‘ipod touch’

Apple Crushes Earnings

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Earlier this morning we saw a selloff as Wall St remained skeptical that Apple could sustain iPhone activation growth. However, Apple announced earnings today after the close and Apple slammed them out of the park, pushing the stock back into positive territory in after-hours trading.

Apple released earnings of $12.30 per share compared to an estimate of $10.04 and added $39.2 billion in revenue for a pure profit of $11.6 billion! Unit wise, Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads (expect more iPad sales as the new iPad went on sale only last month). This represents an 88% growth over the same quarter a year ago and a 151% increase unit wise. iPod sales declined 15% to 7.7 million units sold.

CEO Tim Cook summed it up by saying we’ll be seeing a lot more Apple innovation this year so that got us really excited. He stated, “We’re thrilled with sales of over 35 million iPhones and almost 12 million iPads in the March quarter. The new iPad is off to a great start, and across the year you’re going to see a lot more of the kind of innovation that only Apple can deliver.” We hope so Tim, we hope so.

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Apple’s App Store Reaches 25 Billion Downloads

Monday, March 5th, 2012

Apple’s App Store officially reached 25 billion downloads this past Saturday. The lucky winner of the $10,000 iTunes Gift Card was Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. Eddy Cue, Apple’s SVP of Internet Software and Services said, “we’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded.”

Apple’s App Store has only been around for four years so this makes the number quite impressive. Further displaying Apple’s ascent to the top of the mobile world, Apple disclosed that there are now 315 million iPhones, iPad and iPod Touch devices around the world being used. Pretty impressive, huh? There’s more. Apple officially opened the App Store with the release of the iPhone 3G in July 2008 and last January they were only at 10 billion downloads so in the past year they have more than doubled the first three years of downloads which is extremely impressive.

Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China was rewarded with a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card for downloading the 25 billionth app

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iOS 5.1 Beta Given To Developers

Monday, December 12th, 2011

Apple has made the second version of their iOS 5.1 available to developers today and we’re told that the main updates will be enhanced Photo Stream deleting capabilities (yaaaawn) and a supposed fix to battery life issues. Note this release is still only made for developers, but we would anticipate a full-blown consumer version in the next 2-3 weeks just in time for the new year.

In other news, we’ve also heard that Apple is starting to ramp up production of its 3rd generation iPad, which should hit stores by April of 2012 (looks like we’re starting to see a product life cycle being established.) Look out for that official announcement in March.

Til then, Happy Monday and talk soon!

Will Battery Life Finally Be Fixed?

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iOS 5 Is Officially Released

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Apple officially released their latest OS to the public today and so far we’ve heard mixed reviews. Other tech blogs have said it works great, but the people we’ve spoke to who have updated said it erased all their information and froze their phones up. Do a quick scan of Facebook to see if this happened to any of your friends. We were actually mid update when we read that so we stopped and our phones are still intact – whew!

In terms of official features, iOS 5 is looking to be Apple’s most impressive build so far, with over 200 new features with improved notifications, iMessage, Apple Newsstand and iCloud. iOS also features the Find My Friend feature, which we’re guessing you’re either going to love or hate.

In order to upgrade to iOS you’ll also need to update your iTunes to version 10.5. The new white iPod Touch and iPhone 4S will both ship with iOS 5.

Who’s updated, what do you think?

Apple's Latest iOS 5

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