Apple posts highest ever quarterly earnings after success for Mac and iPad
Steve Jobs says tech firm had enjoyed "phenomenal quarter" after revenues rise 88%, with net profit up 78% at $3.25bn Record sales of Mac computers and strong demand for the iPad has helped Apple post its highest ever quarterly earnings. Steve Jobs declared last night that Apple had enjoyed a "phenomenal quarter", after it smashed analyst forecasts. Revenues rose 88% to $15.7bn (£10.2bn) in the three months to 26 June, with net quarterly profit up 78% at $3.25bn.
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Apple posts highest ever quarterly earnings after success for Mac and iPad
Apple’s next trick: the trackpad for desktops
What's better than iPhone 4.0? How about a new Apple touchpad to replace keyboards for its desktop computers... Published on Engadget , these images were leaked with perfect timing [insert marketing conspiracy theory here] hours before Steve Jobs will introduce the [spoiled] next generation iPhone at Apple's Worldwide developer conference in San Francisco. Take a metaphorical look backwards at Apple's road map: iPhone spent three years training consumers how to use a touchscreen, and was then followed by iPad. Take a look forwards, we'll all be using touchscreens at our desktops, as I said on the Guardian Tech Weekly podcast recently. Beyond that, it probably gets a bit conceptual and Minority Report. But here it is: The leaked images were published by Engadget , who point out John Daring Fireball Gruber and MacRumours wrote about an Apple trademark application back in for a ' Magic Trackpad ' and rumours dating back to 2008 . Digital media Apple Computing iPad iPhone Steve Jobs Jemima Kiss guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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Thanks, Mr Jobs, for my new iNanny | Jemima Kiss
They said the iPod would never last, so only a fool would bet against the success of the iPad "A ll this hype for something so ridiculous! Why would they do this?! It's so wrong! It's so stupid!" "It won't sell. It will be killed off." "The reality distortion field is starting to warp Steve Jobs's mind if he thinks for one second that this thing is gonna take off." It's reassuring to know that some things never change: those were comments made on Apple fan sites as the first iPod was released in October 2001. Despite initial doubts, the iPod has become the symbol for seismic change, and very much to the benefit of Apple. The "iPod effect" boosted sales of its computers and also successfully staked out a lucrative chunk of the nascent digital music market by locking consumers into its own music store – effectively stealing the future from under the noses of the old music industry. Less than nine years later, Apple has sold 250m iPods. So what of the iPad ? Apple did no formal promotion ahead of the launch
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Apple’s iPad? I’ll stick to my old-fashioned diary| Alexander Chancellor
The tablet computer launch may have hogged the headlines – but I'm not convinced by the hype What a momentous week this has been. Tony Blair accounting to the Chilcot committee for the war in Iraq. JD Salinger dying. The British and Irish prime ministers struggling to save the peace in Northern Ireland. The future of Afghanistan being planned in London, and the future of the world economy in Davos. Not to mention Barack Obama's first State of the Union message. There has been an awful lot to get excited about. But none of these events, not even Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, has generated half as much hullabaloo as the appearance on a stage in San Francisco of an ill-shaven old boy in jeans and sneakers to present his latest commercial product to the world. The old boy was, of course, Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, and the product the now world-famous (if still unavailable) iPad
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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs shows off the much-hyped iPad, which he hopes will come to define a new category of wireless device
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Will you ditch print and read books on an Apple ‘tablet’?
The Apple 'tablet' computer is (almost) here, allowing users to download a library of books. Will you be swapping print for digital?
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Apple’s profits jump 49% on strong demand for iPhone
Apple announces impressive results as anticipation builds over launch of tablet computer device Apple was celebrating the best quarter in its 34-year history tonight, as anticipation grew around the launch of the company's tablet computerlater this week .
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Breakfast briefing: Apple’s tablet rumours and Twitter splashes out on geo startup
• Fans of Apple won't be the only ones sent into a spinby the news that the company could be making a product announcement in late January . Rumours were fuelled by the news that the company has hired the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for a January 26th event. The venue is slap-bang next to the Moscone Center, where Apple has traditionally held its Macworld keynote, and is where we saw new iPods launched in September . Expect other manufacturers to try ramping up their own announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show, as a way of fighting the Apple hype machine. • After surprising everyone by making money , Twitter caught people off-guard again by announcing that it had purchased Mixer Labs , a geo-location software company. It's not the first purchase the startup has made, having previously sucked in search service Summize and Values of N . Expect more geo features soon
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How laptops took over the world
The rise of portable computing has forced companies to rethink how they let staff work – and is shifting the balance of power in the IT industry In January 2003, Steve Jobs announced to a slightly surprised Macworld audience that " this is going to be the year of the notebook for Apple ". There was a clear ambition to push up the sales of portables – on which margins tend to be better than on desktops. Jobs was right in spotting an unstoppable trend: the rise of the laptop. This is a category that now includes not just "notebooks", as Apple always refers to them, but also, since 2008, the smaller "netbooks". As Moore's Law – a halving of cost for the same spec – has applied to processors, RAM and even disk storage, laptops have become not just an interesting option for a second computer, but the primary machine for a lot of people. Apple didn't quite manage to make 2003 the year in which sales of laptops exceeded those of desktop; it was July 2005 before that happened, and April 2006 before it began to happen consistently. But now laptop sales always exceed desktop sales for the company; in the past quarter, when it sold a record 3m computers, nearly three out of every four was a laptop. And though Apple is the leader in this trend, laptops are taking over computing, especially with the rise of netbooks. Looking at the trends in computer sales, you may wonder when laptop sales will overtake those of desktops worldwide. The answer is simple: they already have. For 2009, 159m portable machines (a segment that includes both notebooks and netbooks) will be sold, compared with 124m desktop machines, according to the research company IDC. Gartner says that in the first quarter of 2009, desktop sales declined 16% year on year; laptop sales fell by 3%, but netbook sales leapt sixfold, so that they now make up 20% of all laptops sold. Leaving your desk behind For computer makers, the shift to laptops offers a chance to increase profit margins – although all but Apple still struggle in what has become a commodity market. (Apple is estimated to have around 75% of the share of laptops sold in the US priced over $999.) Netbooks have once again eroded those margins, but the fact that you can't build your own laptop, while it is comparatively easy for anyone to take a chassis and build a desktop machine, leaves more margin in that sector. Those are the bald numbers – but they hide a much more subtle and far-reaching shift in the way we now live our lives, says Richard Holway, the veteran analyst who is chairman of TechMarketView.
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Microsoft: An ageing giant
Ten years ago Microsoft was a feared and fearful technology titan.
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