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From: JohnB on 20 Apr 2010 19:38 According to Apple's 1st Quarter results announcements:- __________ Apple said it sold about nine million of its popular smart phone - more than double the figure from a year earlier. And it shipped almost three million Macs and about ten million iPods. The period did not include the iPad launch. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said the results were "our best non-holiday quarter ever". It made a net profit of $3.1bn (�2bn) while revenue rose 49% to $13.5bn in the three months to 27 March. The profits were well ahead of market expectations, and sent its shares about 6% higher. Apple sold more than 300,000 of its iPad tablet computer, on its launch day in the US. The device goes on sale in Europe next month. "We have several more extraordinary products in the pipeline for this year," Mr Jobs added. _________ Any predictions ? -- JohnB
From: David Empson on 20 Apr 2010 21:55 JohnB <john.brennand(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > According to Apple's 1st Quarter results announcements:- > > __________ > "We have several more extraordinary products in the pipeline for this > year," Mr Jobs added. > _________ > > Any predictions ? Well, the blindingly obvious ones: - iPhone model around late June. - iPod Touch model around September, along with other iPods. - Mac Pro some point reasonably soon, with a revised Cinema Display (perhaps 27" replacing 30"). - MacBook at some point. - Maybe an updated MacBook Air. - iMac and Mac Mini should get updates before the end of the year. - iLife 2010/2011. - iWork 2010/2011. As to what they might include: The new iPhone probably comes very close to the one that the media has been babbling about for the last few days, though I'm not convinced about the case design or the alleged 80 GB storage. iPod Touch may gain a camera. USB 3.0 probably won't make it into new Macs this year, unless Intel support it in their standard chipsets (I saw a comment that this won't happen until 2011). Possibility of it turning up in a Mac Pro refresh if Apple adds an extra support chip for it (which is how Firewire and USB 2.0 were first implemented). I'd expect Apple to try to introduce a major feature like USB 3.0 as quickly as possible across a wide range of models, or it would affect sales of the models that don't have it yet. Light Peak probably won't appear this year as a built-in feature but might be an add-on card for the Mac Pro. Any MacBook update will be a minor refresh such as a small bump in CPU speed, perhaps change to an NVIDIA GeForce 320M (like the 13" MacBook Pro). Ditto for the Mac Mini. iMac will get faster Core i5/i7 when they are available. Mac Pro will be high end Xeons with more cores (6 per CPU). iLife/iWork leaves plentry of room for speculation. The server farm may bring more cloud computing services. We could see a major rewrite of iTunes. Something else on the software front, e.g. new or updated Pro applications? Unlikely to hear much about the next version of Mac OS X this year. Hard to say if anything in that lot would classify as "extraordinary", so perhaps Apple has something else up their collective sleeves? -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Rowland McDonnell on 21 Apr 2010 03:19 JohnB <john.brennand(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: [snip] > "We have several more extraordinary products in the pipeline for this > year," Mr Jobs added. > _________ > > Any predictions ? Yes: I'm not going to fall for The Steve's trick of getting `everyone' to speculate and to discess what marvels will appear from the Apple dream factory in the comiing months. You're providing Aople with free marketing, you are - the sort of publicity that money cannot buy, publicity so effective that it influences poeple to want to buy something before they don't even know what it is! Not that it's entirely your fault... it's /everyone/ who falls for the trap and gets into the nattering speculation about what magical whatever The Steve or his stand-in will unveil next time. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Ben Shimmin on 21 Apr 2010 04:04 David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>: [snip excellent and sensible round-up of potential Apple updates this year] > Hard to say if anything in that lot would classify as "extraordinary", > so perhaps Apple has something else up their collective sleeves? Come on, this is Apple. `extraordinary' is a pretty ordinary word for them. I'm certain Jobs describes his morning Weetabix as `incredible and revolutionary'. We have a little running joke at work where we describe everything using RDF adjectives, eg. `How was your lunch?' `Magical! The sandwich man was super-responsive!' b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Jim on 21 Apr 2010 04:10
On 2010-04-21, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > > Come on, this is Apple. `extraordinary' is a pretty ordinary word for > them. I'm certain Jobs describes his morning Weetabix as `incredible and > revolutionary'. > > We have a little running joke at work where we describe everything using > RDF adjectives, eg. `How was your lunch?' `Magical! The sandwich man > was super-responsive!' Every time I see the word 'magical' in relation to iPad advertising, I cringe. I _really_ wish they wouldn't use that word. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash. |