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Tim Cook announces that Apple employees, starting in June, will receive $500 off of Macs and $250 off iPads
Following Apple’s blowout quarter this week, Tim Cook sent a company wide email to Apple employees inviting them to a Town Hall meeting which was held yesterday. In addition to going over their record breaking quarter, Cook also delivered some welcome news to the Mac faithful. 9to5Mac reports: Cook announced that Apple employees will soon [...]
Continue reading...iPhone sales top 37 million as Apple records record-breaking quarter
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Apple last quarter had a slight misstep when its earnings fell short of analyst expectations for the first time in years. Of course, the delayed release of the iPhone 4S had something to do with revenue coming in below expectations. But during last quarter’s earnings conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook boldly predicted that December [...]
Continue reading...Mac sales are growing faster in China than the US
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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An increasing amount of Apple’s income is derived from China, and while the bulk of those revenues come from iPhone, iPad, and iPod sales, Mac sales there are growing tremendously and are even outpacing Mac sales growth here in the US, according to a recent research note from analyst Ben A Reitzes of Barclays Capital. [...]
Continue reading...Apple announces Mac App Store downloads reach 100 million
Monday, December 12, 2011
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While most of the discussion surrounding app stores is in the mobile space, Apple’s Mac App Store is quietly becoming a runaway hit. Apple today announced that downloads from the Mac App Store have now topped 100 million. Not too shabby considering its only been available for a year. Apple also noted that its app [...]
Continue reading...Kids and Teenagers both put iOS products at the top of their Holiday wish lists
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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This holiday shopping season, American teenagers have just three things on their mind – cold hard cash, clothes, and Apple products. A testament to the popularity of Apple products and a branding success that remains the envy of nearly every other company, a recent survey conducted by Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray reveals that behind [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s Mac Pro may not have much time left amid shrinking sales
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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By David Goldman: When Steve Jobs began asserting control at Apple following his return in 1997, one of his first orders of business was to simplify Apple’s product line into a 2×2 matrix. Whereas Apple pre-Jobs had an inordinate number of products, Jobs completely retooled Apple’s product lineup to consist solely of notebook and desktop [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s releases Q4 2011 earnings – $28.27 billion in revenue on record iPad and Mac sales
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Wall St. analysts would be well-advised to take their Apple earnings estimates and just tack on a little bit extra. Without fail, Apple over the past few years has demolished Wall St. expectations and this quarter was just as impressive though Apple did fail for the first time in a long time [...]
Continue reading...Tim Cook highlights rousing success of OS X Lion and the Mac
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: Tim Cook kicked off today’s keynote by highlighting the roaring success of the Mac and OS X Lion (sorry, we couldn’t help it). After starting off with an obligatory blurb from Walt Mossberg stating that OS X Lion is the “best operating system out there”, Cook dropped a number of interesting data [...]
Continue reading...Mac sales during the September quarter may reach 4.6 million units
Monday, September 12, 2011
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According to a recent memo from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Apple in the September quarter may sell upwards of 4.6 million Macs, a figure which would represent an all-time quarterly sales record for the company. By way of contrast, Apple’s previous quarterly Mac sales record, from the 2010 holiday quarter, checks in at 4.1 [...]
Continue reading...Which US States and Cities harbor the most Mac users?
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Though our numbers are growing, Mac users are sort of the tech equivalent to The Marines. Few and proud. Okay, I’m not exactly sure where that intro was going, but suffice it to say that it’s always a treat to see fellow diehard Mac users out and about. And now that the nerd quotient here [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s iOS profits are 2.3 times higher than Microsoft’s Windows profits
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
By John Hiesler: In an era where PC growth is declining, Apple is the lone company actually seeing an uptick in PC sales. More than that, because Apple offers a unique and non-commoditized experience, the margins it enjoys for each Mac sold is the envy of the entire industry. In the most recent quarter, Apple [...]
Continue reading...If iPad sales were counted as Mac/PC sales [Chart]
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
With the emphatic arrival of the iPad, there’s been growing talk of the iPad being a post PC device ushering in a new post PC era. Indeed, PC sales are beginning to slow down, with new data from Gartner relaying that PC shipments have been declining for three straight quarters here in the US. So [...]
Continue reading...If you wanna study at the Berklee College of Music, you have to own a Mac
Friday, April 1, 2011
If you wanna study at Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music, you best be getting a Mac. The Berklee Laptop Purchase Program states: Berklee College of Music requires all entering students to own an Apple Macintosh laptop computer that meets certain standards established by the academic and technology leadership of the college. To facilitate this [...]
Continue reading...By country, Switzerland has the highest Mac OS X market share in the world
Friday, March 18, 2011
As if we need more proof that the Swiss have an exquisite taste for good design, the Pingdom blog measured visitor data across a sample size of three million websites and found that Switzerland has the highest percentage of Mac users than any other with a 17.61% share. Luxembourg comes in second with a 15.79% [...]
Continue reading...Ad for new ViewSonic ViewPad shows screenshot of OS X
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
ViewSonic today announced a new 10.1-inch tablet capable of booting up in either Windows 7 or Google Android. “The lines of professional and personal life are blurring, which creates a need for devices that are suited for both sides,” ViewSonic VP Adam Hanin said in a press release. The ViewPad, as it’s called, comes with [...]
Continue reading...Apple profits soar 77% on sales of 4+ million Macs and 16.24 million iPhones
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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Apple a short while ago released its Q1 2011 earnings and the results were stellar. Apple posted revenue of $26.74 billion and net profits of $6 billion – both company records. Highlighting just how fast Apple is growing, the company posted revenue of $15.68 billion with net profits of $3.38 billion in the year-ago [...]
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
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