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Apple announces record results as Mac takes 5% of worldwide PC sales

by Kenny Hemphill on 19 October 2011 in News

Apple announced yesterday that it made $6.62bn in the July-September quarter, an increase of 54% on last year and a record for the company. Revenue for the period was $28.27bn, a rise of 39% on the year ago quarter. Mac sales rose by 26% from last year, making a total of 4.9m worldwide, a quarterly [...]

Apple demotes Mac to ‘just a device’ as Mac OS X becomes OS X

by Kenny Hemphill on 7 June 2011 in Comment

Apple confirmed yesterday what many of us have suspected for several years: that the Mac is no longer its focus.

In a throwaway remark that was almost lost among the endless demonstrations of Lion and iOS 5 features, Steve Jobs proclaimed: ‘We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device.’ And, to underline that, in red, with several asterisks either side, Mac OS X became just OS X. It’s the first time since System 7 in the mid-nineties that the word ‘Mac’ hasn’t featured in the name of the operating system. And though it was a move made quietly, without any announcement, it’s a signifi

Tests show iMac hard disk performance can vary by 100%

by Adam Banks on 11 May 2011 in Analysis

Apple has confirmed that it reserves the right to change the supplier and specification of the hard drives built into the latest iMac models, announced last week. In MacUser’s tests, undocumented variations between the drives fitted in different models resulted in transfer speeds ranging from 76 to 164 megabytes per second (MB/sec), making the quickest [...]

Apple announces record sales and profits…again

by Kenny Hemphill on 21 April 2011 in News

Apple has announced that it made $5.99 billion in its fiscal second quarter, which ended on 26 March. That’s an increase of 95% on the previous year. It recorded record revenue for the quarter, of $24.67 billion, an increase of 83% on the previous year.

Contributing to the record figures were Mac sales of 3.76 million, up 28% year-on-year, and iPhone sales of 18.65 million, more than double the sales of a year ago. iPad sales were 4.7m for the quarter, down on the previous quarter due to difficulties supplying enough iPad 2 units to meet demand. iPod sales were 17% down on last year, at just over nine million.