Early Returns
January 24th, 2012 - 3:23 pm
Greg Hill just emailed me from Apple’s Q1 conference call to say:
Yikes!
37m iPhones
15m iPads
~8m iPod touches60m iOS devices in one quarter!!!
Yikes is right.
Greg Hill just emailed me from Apple’s Q1 conference call to say:
Yikes!
37m iPhones
15m iPads
~8m iPod touches60m iOS devices in one quarter!!!
Yikes is right.
Interesting sleeper number is TV sales. 1.4 million sales last quarter. I’m pretty sure that’s the first time that they’ve broken 1m units in a quarter. There have been hints in some of the iOS beta releases that it’ll be opened up for app development.
Two words: Siri. Games.
I’m a new reader to your blog, but i can’t help but notice the constant barracking for Apple and their products. Just how many shares do you own? Or is there some other nterest there on your behalf that might need disclosing?
I own no shares of Apple. What I am, is nuts about gadgets, computers, and the companies that make them — and have been since purchasing a used VIC-20 way back in 1982 at the age of 13, with my own money. I’ve been collecting great electronics and watching great electronics companies for 30 years now.
The sad part is, for the last few years Apple is the only exciting manufacturer left in the game.
My original comment was tongue-in-cheek; i guess i forgot tone isn’t transmitted by text!
I’m a iphone 4 owner and ipad 1 owner, i think Apple is doing some great things in the electronics world, but i think they are setting precedents in terms of software/services ‘lock in’ and privacy that may take a long long time to break out of.
Expanding on what Stephen said, there are several high profile Apple bashers around the web, and whenever this blog said anything complimentary of Apple’s products at all, there would just about always be somebody along to post “Apple is about dead now”
There would be on this post too, but it’s kind of tough to say “Apple earning more last quarter than any other corp in history besides Exxon is proof it’s toast”
Not that I’m a raging fanboy. I have a company provided 3GS and really chafe at my upholstered jail cell of a pocket computer. I’m just too cheap to shell out for a top of the line Android when the iPhone is free to me.
Believe it or not, Eric Raymond is making this precise argument. I usually like reading him, even when he rants about Apple and the “jail cell” (oops!). But he really just can’t deal with reality sometimes. He’s been predicting imminent collapse for Apple and iOS, and is arguing that said stellar quarter is consistent with his premise.
Oh, well. Everyone’s got blinders of one sort or another. I like the idea behind open source. But the fanatical devotion to it, and insistence that it is the only way, gets really tiresome.
And if you’re chafing, jailbreak your iPhone. It’s supposed to be extremely simple.
Time to link-whore. Hope you don’t mind, Steve. I’ve added some thoughts to what I sent you earlier and then posted above.