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Apple’s earnings break records: 37 million iPhones, $46 billion revenue
Apple just announced its Q1 2012 earnings with big numbers and big profits. The company made a record $46.33 billion in revenue and a record net profit of $13.06 billion — in a single quarter. The introduction of the iPhone 4S and the continued success of the iPad 2 really helped to boost its numbers into the near-absurd category. Gross margin was up to 44.7 percent this quarter as compared to 38.5 percent in Q1 2011, but don’t be fooled: gigantic sales numbers played an even more important role in … Read more
George Tinari
Apple becomes largest purchaser of semiconductors on the planet
Apple gains another notch on its belt by becoming the largest chip (semiconductor) purchaser in the world, beating out Samsung for the top spot, according to data from Gartner. The Cupertino-based company spent $17.3 billion on semiconductors in 2011, which catapulted it up to a 5.7 percent total share of chip purchasing. Rounding out last years top three chip buyers is: Samsung at $16.7 billion and HP with $16.6 billion (both holding a 5.5 percent share). Research firm Gartner (who crunched these numbers), further explained the year-over-year growth of leading electronics manufacturers. “The … Read more
Charles West
Apple steals the President of Sony Ericsson U.S., puts him in charge of Latin America
Anderson Teixeira used to be the President of Sony Ericsson’s U.S. division until very recently. According to 9to5Mac his new role is Head of Apple’s Latin American division. What’s his C.V. like? Well, he’s from Brazil, has been with Sony Ericsson since the company launched in 2001, he started his career as head of Sony Ericsson Latin America, then moved to Germany to become head of Sony Ericsson Western Europe, and as for his role in the U.S., he’s held that seat since June 2009. In other words, the guy … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Survey says 36% of people who bought an iPhone in the U.S. in Q4 2011 are new to the platform
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners collected survey responses from 6,316 people who purchased an iPhone in the U.S. during the last quarter of last year, specifically October 14th (the launch of the iPhone 4S) to the end of the year. They then did an analysis on the responses of 365 of those people and what they found was that was that more than one third of iPhone buyers are totally new to the platform. When it comes to people who specifically got an iPhone 4S, more than 20% of them purchased … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Absinthe A5 jailbreak tops one million downloads in 24 hours
pod2g and Chronic Dev Team’s jailbreak reached one million downloads within the first 24 hours of availability. The jailbreak, dubbed Absinthe, was released on Friday as the first untethered solution for iOS 5 users. It only supports the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 which both have Apple’s dual-core A5 chip inside, hence the nickname “A5 jailbreak.” Clearly, there’s still a very high demand for jailbreaking. These stats only include downloads on Mac OS X, since the Windows version was posted after the first 24-hour period. I wouldn’t be surprised if pod2g … Read more
George Tinari
Video: Samsung takes another pot shot at the iPhone, hipsters end up “Samsung’d”
Companies rarely insult each other in public these days, for reasons we don’t quite understand; being politically correct is boring. Samsung though, they’re on a roll. It started out with an ad that showed a bunch of people waiting in line for the iPhone 4S when all of a sudden they see a Samsung Galaxy S II and become immediately enthralled with the device’s 4.3 inch screen, 4G LTE speeds, and so on and so forth. Their latest ad uses the same format, with a bunch of hipsters waiting in … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Apple launches recycling service in the UK
Apple has launched a recycling service in the UK, allowing users to either get some cash for their old gear, or if the hardware they have doesn’t have any value – recycle it for free. Run by Dataserv GmbH, the Reuse and Recycling Program accepts all Apple-made devices — including iPhones, iPads and Macs — and will wire you the value of the device directly to a bank account. Whether it’s an iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC computer, working or not, we’ll take it and determine if it qualifies for … Read more
Dusan Belic
Apple iPad 3 in February? Signs point to yes
Back in February, rumors circulated that Apple would unveil the iPad 3 in February and recently, we heard the more specific date of February 24th, right on Steve Jobs’ birthday. Now, yet another report is in stating February is the target month for the tablet’s debut. What is it going to feature? Well, just about every rumor says a retina display with a 2048×1536 resolution. It’s pretty much a given at this point. At the beginning of January, we also reported an 8MP camera could be on the way, although … Read more
George Tinari
Apple could release ‘Garage Band for e-books’
We know that Apple is planning to hold an event next week that will be focused on iBooks and the latest reports now suggest it could be releasing a program which makes it super simple for users to create their own e-books. That’s right, we may be looking at a “Garage Band for e-books.” According to sources at Ars Technica, we could be in for a slate of improvements to e-book software, which is still kind of difficult to create. One of the main reasons people like to use Apple … Read more
Marin Perez
Samsung looking to raise $1 billion to expand Austin, Texas factory responsible for Apple chips
Despite being at each other’s throats in the court room, Samsung and Apple are best buddies when it comes to their component relationship. Last summer The Economist did some research about the various bits and bobs that make up the iPhone and discovered that 26% of the bill of materials of an iPhone 4 was for three parts that Samsung supplies Apple. Can you guess what those parts are? If you know anything about Samsung then you’re not going to be too surprised to discover that it’s the processor, the … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Future Apple and Samsung phones to be water proof thanks to a new technology called HZO
ZAGG, makers of cases for various consumer electronic devices, was at CES last week showing off their latest innovation called HZO. Unlike a case that you put on a device you’ve already purchased, HZO is a technology that a device vendor would spray on the internals of their hardware during the manufacturing process. The folks at Pocket-lint spoke to ZAGG and found out that they’re “in the process of signing up a major smartphone partner and a headphones maker in the very near future.” When ZAGG showed off HZO to … Read more