Followups & Errata:- Bart - In Laptop announcement special show Bart was plain wrong about the 17% retails share being revenue not units, it was units, revenue share is even higher!
- Bart - SEC have found who the "heart attack" rumour guy was - 18 year old kid, no evidence he did it for profit - Via Bloomberg
iPhone/Smart Phone News:- Bart - Google release Android code under the Apache license (except for the kernel which is under GPL2) - Via TidBITS
- Rob - An "unnamed" Search company says it is seeing entries in it's logs for an un-anouced product running OS X, possibly a new iPhone or a Mac Tablet (almost no substance to this story) - Via MacWorld UK
- Mike - Congress Considers iPhone - Via Ars Technica
- Stu - Texan University shows the power of iPhones / iPod Touches for learning - via MacWorld
- Paul - Apple make good on their promise to open up iPhone NDA and prove they mean it by setting up developer forums for iPhone & iPod Touch developers.
iPod / iTunes NewsApple News:- Everyone - Apple Earnings Call (Full transcript available via SeekingAlpha.com):
- Already sold more than 10 Million iPhones in 2008
- Apple beat RIM in unit sales last quarter (Apple 6.9m, RIM 6.1m)
- Apple 3rd largest phone maker in WORLD by REVENUE (4.6bn) - still only about a third of Nokia (12.7bn) but close to #2 Samsung (5.9bn).
- App store sold about 2m apps in about 100 days - now 5,500 apps in store
- Sold 2.6 Million Macs (most ever, 21% year-over-year growth)
- Sold 11 Million iPods (8% year-over-year growth)
- iTunes doing well (no interesting numbers given)
- Apple Retail Stores doing well (37% revenue growth year-over-year and 42.7 million visitors!)
- Total gross margin was 34.7% (better than expected), but as ususal Apple are guiding low for next quarter - 30% to 31%
- Lots of cash on hand - "We are very pleased to have generated $3.7 billion in cash during the quarter, ending with $24.5 billion." ... "we have almost $25 billion safely in the bank and zero debt"
- Mike - Apple & Psystar not really in negotiations -
"It's standard practice, not for all courts, but the practice is
growing. Quite frankly, all the talk about entering negotiations is
really a non-story." - Via MacWorld UK
- Bart - Apple hire Dean of Yale Business School to head up "Apple University" - no details on what Apple University will be though - Via The Wall Street Journal
Mac & Software News- Bart - More Get a Mac ads (Bean Counter, The V-Word & Bake Sale) - take very strong aim at MS, particularly Bean Counter which is a strong reply to the new MS ads - Via www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
- Rob - The Mac Mini may be for the chop (again) - Via Ars Technica
- Rob - The new Mac Notebooks know when they get wet! - Viat MacWorld UK
- Paul - New nVidia chipset in MacBooks / MacBook Pros can do more - via Gizmodo
- Stu - First beta of OS X 10.5.6 released to testers - over 50 bug fixes already - Via Ars Technica
- Mike - Alpha version of Camino 2.0 hits the streets, brings rendering engine up to latest (same as FF3) - Via Ars Technica
Security News:- Bart - Intego (Mac security firm) report on a new Mac Trojan that pretends to be AV for the Mac called 'MacGuard' that appears to be a Mac variant of 'WinGuard' - Via MacWorld UK
- Bart - MAJOR Windows flaw patched today. 0 Day exploit with remote coded execution. Nasty stuff! Remember to update your VMs and your boot-camp installs!
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