£22 and £5.1 proffits
IPAD EVENT
Streamed live on Apple TV
Figures
iPhone 5 - 5M in first weekend, most phones ever sold in one weekend
Video of debut - how can one company generate so much idolatry. People were screaming and jumping when leaving the Store with an iPhone
3M iPods sold since release
200M iDevices running iOS6 (after a month), fastest upgrade of any software in history
300B messages on iMessage - I would like to see that compared to the total sms number. Compared to the 300M idevices used now…
100M iPads sold
iBooks
continuous scrolling (HEY!!)
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Macbook Pro (best selling mac)
0.75Inches - 20% thinner (slightly thicker than 15inch)
lightest macbook pro ever, a pound less than 15inch (first hands on say this is noticeable)
HDMI, USB
Retina x4
Dual Mics
Only difference from 15inches is graphics card
Pricing…
Mac mini
2.5Ghz dc to 2.6Ghz qc
4xUSB3
available with up to 256GB SD
up to 2TB
up to 16Gb Ram
Prices…
iMac
Super thin - 5mm edge, friction stir welding, 40% less volume
anti reflective coating, same stuff as with macbook pro retinas
dual mics
all quad cores
up to 32GB RAM
2x thunderbolt
4x USB3
SD card in back
SDD or HHD or Fusion Drive (128GB SSD + 1TB-3TB HHD), OSX will move things to and from the SSD to improve speed. A nice stepping stone (also available on Mac mini)
Prices… (fusion)
iBooksAuthor
more templates
custom fonts
multitouch widgets
easily update books
iPad 4th generation
A6X
2xgraphics and 2xCPU from A5X
2xWifi
litghning connector
Updated for EE LTE, not O2...
This is weird...
iPad mini
23% thinner than iPad (pencil thickness)
7.9"
iPad 2 pixels
comparison to Nexus 7
plastic vs aluminium
heavier even though smaller display
35% bigger screen
50%/67% bigger for web (Those onscreen buttons are horrible)
phone apps streeched vs full tablet apps (killer reason)
10 battery life
A5 chip (less pixels to run)
one colour cover - £35, polyurethane
small person will struggle to hold with one hand
basically a shrunk iPad 2 with an iPad 3/4 camera and Siri
Prices… (I like the all black one)
iPad 2 is still there
Shipping November 2nd for wifi, LTE is in two weeks in states. Should come to UK before christmas
No education stuff. What do we think? What about competition? Why not a 8Gb for lower price? (discuss Apple's business philosophy, bang and ollufsen's mp3 player £500 with no memory or LCD, confusing interface)
What a busy Autumn
Audible
http://talkingapple.co.uk/audible
£22 and £5.1 proffits
That's 61% growth year over year. Crazy stuff!
Expect lower overall gross margins next quarter
I gave up
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Tests have been disappointing. Much fluctuation
Said to include tethering
Justify prices with unlimited calls. It's a lame disguise as they know most people would never use more than 300minutes.
Expected for a completely monopolised technology. Get a pay and go and wait.
All bureaucracy from now until April.
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http://talkingapple.co.uk/backup
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