Archive: January 2012
9 posts
Apple Hires Dixons CEO John Brewett as Retail Chief
So today we got the answer to a question that we’ve been pondering for a number of months and we got Tim Cook’s first major hire as the official CEO of Apple. But I for one am a little skeptical.
Apple Announces Record Quarterly Revenue of $46.33 billion
Apple today announced financial results for its first fiscal quarter of 2012 which ran from September 25 until December 31. The Company posted revenue of $46.33 billion and net quarterly profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of…
Predictions Ahead of Apple's Q112 Fiscal Results
Earlier this month I wrote a short piece on Apple’s first fiscal quarter of 2012. The quarter which ran from September 25 until December 31 looks likely to be an all round record breaker for Apple. In that post I focused on Apple’s quarterly revenue…
Apple's Education Event: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?
Apple's education-focused event held today in the Guggenheim Museum in New York City is over and it's now time to take stock of what the company announced. What we saw today was almost exactly as we expected, some of the more nuanced details such as…
Apple's Latest iPad Sales Tactic
On Thursday Apple will hold its first event of 2012. The event which will be held in New York City early on Thursday morning is guaranteed to be focused solely on the education market. Thankfully Apple clarified this intention with the actual event invite itself…
Reflecting on Change
There's no easy way to say it, 2011 was a bad year for this website. Such a statement isn't easy for me to write because it isn't easy for me to hear; in July World of Apple will be seven years old and anyone who…
Mac App Store at One
Today the Mac App Store celebrates its first year of existence and what a year it was. Despite being a fledging service trying to break the mould of a decades old model of distributing software the Mac App Store successfully made an impact and changed…
The Forty Billion Dollar Quarter
On the very last day of 2011 Apple’s first fiscal quarter of 2012 ended and what happened during the preceding three months will drop jaws across Wall Street. Unlike previous years the quarter ran for 14 weeks rather than 13, this is something that happens…
Apple's 2011 in Pictures
2011 was a truly momentous year for Apple in many ways, during the year that has just passed the company released an unprecedented number of products in terms of both hardware and software cementing its place as the world's most popular consumer electronics company. Apple…