Talkingapple's List: 44

• It was the best-ever quarter for Mac sales, reaching a total of 3.89 million, exceeding the previous record of the June quarter by 400,000.
• The 14.1 million units sold easily bested last quarter's sales of 8.4 million units.
• ales value of iPhones alone was about $8.6 billion, which led to an average selling price of about $610.
• obs was asked by Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray about Adobe Flash. The CEO quipped back: "Flash memory? We love flash memory."
• . It accounted for $2.8 billion in total revenue,

  • 4.19m units sold
• We've got a tiger by the tail here, and this is a new model of computing which we've already got tens of millions of people trained on with the iPhone, and that lends itself to lots of different aspects of life, both personal and business," he said.
   
   On the competition, Jobs said he isn't worried. "We're not done. We're working on a lot of things for the future." He added: "We're out to win this one."
  

  • licensed software will always win. But if they mean that by winning you have the best product, then that's probably gonna be true.
• he iPod dropped 4 percent sequentially and 11 percent year over year in unit share to 9 million units sold.

  • disappointing since new ipods were released this quarter
• Apple's retail business

  • Apple store will always be a success while Apple is a little portion of market and people just want to try different stuff. So "50% of buyers are new ones" is not that amazing because Apple guys will go to the site.

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• "How is our new model doing?," he continued. "I can reveal [that] in just a short amount of time we've already sold a quarter million of them, and we're thrilled with that."
• For comparison, sales estimates of the previous generation model were said to be less than 1 million per year.

• "The reason we [won't] make a 7-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit that price point, it's because we think the screen is too small to express the software,"
• "We know developers aren't going to deal well with these different sizes and they have to change their software every time the screen size changes," he added. "When we make decisions on 7-inch tablets it's not about cost, it's about the value of the product when you factor in the software."
• "Hm, how can we make this cheaper?  Well let's put a smaller screen, slower processor, less memory, and you just assume the software will somehow come alive on this product but it won't," Jobs quipped. "Developers have taken advantage of faster processors and bigger screens to make better apps for customers." 

  • Apple puts software first if there has to be a compromise. I would agree. It's better to have a pleasant interface than all the specs in world and then be a pain to use them. 

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• According to Reuters, the HP Slate 500 will fit a full-version of Windows 7 into

  • Joke?
• $100 more than the comparable 64GB iPad
• "digital stylus pen" and

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• "It handily beat RIM's 12.1 million Blackberries sold in their last quarter.
• We think developers will be more innovative by focusing on one handset, rather than testing against a lot of hardware.  No matter how many times Google tries to characterize it as closed, we are confident iPhone will triumph."
• 45% as large as the iPad
• that "our potential competitors [in tablets] are having a tough time coming close to iPad's pricing. iPad incorporates everything we've learned about building high value products. We create our own A4 chip, software, battery chemistry, enclosure, everything.

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• $51 billion
• "We strongly believe one or more strategic opportunities will come along we're in a unique position to take advantage of," Jobs said. "We don't let the cash burn a hole in the pocket or make stupid acquisitions. We'd like to continue to keep our powder dry because we think there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future."
• Given Jobs' reported recent meeting with Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of social networking site Facebook, a potential deal between the two has been presented as a possibility.
• Apple has shown a great deal of patience with its cash and reserves, despite the fact that analysts and investors have attempted to push the company on the subject. In February, at an annual shareholder meeting, Jobs said Apple would use the money for "big, bold" risks. At the time, its war chest was at $40 billion.

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• Specifically, some people are losing some or all of their photo libraries when upgrading. Also, iPhoto '11 drops support for older AppleTVs as well as photo calendars.
  
• Suggested steps to take for those affected by the problem include repairing permissions and rebuilding iPhoto libraries. Of course, backing up the existing iPhoto library before upgrading is the most reliable method for ensuring that photos are not lost.  

   

   

• the scroll bars disappear when not in use, but reappear during scrolling or with mouse movement.
• Meanwhile, one reader who had accurately predicted these changes also reveals that in Mac OS X 10.7, users will be able to resize windows from any corner.
• A couple of other new features that Apple glossed over during the presentation was "Auto Save" and "Apps resume when launched". As a result of these new features, it appears that Mac applications are no longer depicted as launched or unlaunched in the Mac OS X Dock:

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• Shortly after the application became available, German blogger Florian Schimanke noticed (Google Translation) a related background process "apsd-ft" and surmised that the process stood for "Apple Push Service Daemon - FaceTime."
• Also, users attempting to uninstall FaceTime for Mac sought help on the Apple Support forums when Mac OS X refused to allow the deletion of the application because it was "in use." Signing out of FaceTime from the FaceTime menu or disabling FaceTime in the application's preferences pane halts the "apsd-ft" process and allows the FaceTime application package to be deleted.
• FaceTime for Mac might be an early indicator that Apple will expand the push notification options on Mac OS X next year as it brings numerous iOS features to the Mac with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

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• There are two ways you can look at the new 11-inch MacBook Air; it's either a much smaller but slower MacBook Pro, or a much faster but larger iPad. The 11-inch MacBook Air is small enough that I'd consider bringing it instead of an iPad, but I'd worry it's not fast enough (or have enough screen space) to be my primary laptop.
   
   The 13-inch MacBook Air is a much more straightforward produc; it has 80% of the processor performance of the latest 13-inch Pro, making it an acceptable substitute for users looking for a slightly more portable Pro.

• 11-inch MacBook Air topping its standard configuration version by 12 percent, overa
• The 13-inch MacBook Air BTO configuration was 10 percent faster than its stock configuration. Individual application highlights include Aperture and our multitasking tests that were both 15 percent faster, and iPhoto was 14 percent faster.

  • probably not worth it
• top-end 13-inch MacBook Air healthily beats the standard 13-inch MacBook Pro despite the Air's slower processor.
• 3-inch MacBook Air remains about 10% slower than the standard 15" MacBook Pro with its significantly more powerful Core i5 processor,

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• • Just wish HP puts the money but stays out of the phone. Atherwise this could be a mess. Will they license or be an Apple?
• 3.1-inch multitouch screen, a 1GHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, a slide-out Qwerty keyboard, an accelerometer, GPS and 16GB of storage

  • 480 x 320, very poor
• The webOS 2.0 update will be delivered to  existing Palm devices
• Stacks
• called Just Type, which allows you to do things like email, message, update your statuses and search a website just by typing.
• WebOS 2.0 will support a beta of Flash 10.1 in the browser

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• • What would Apple buy?

  • What about Apple buying Netflix?
• Sony (NYSE: SNE) shares have moved up recently on rumors that the company might be bought by Apple Inc.
• Apple could easily afford the deal. It has over $50 billion of cash on its balance sheet, and a market cap of $282 billion. Sony’s market value is less than $34 billion.

  • Apple to have just under $100B by end of 2012
• But, Sony is a very messy company
• Apple is in the content distribution business, and its content partners would probably not want to see Steve Jobs as a direct competitor.
• Apple’s strengths: product management and brand management.

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• The company, which moved into Canada this year, is contemplating moving “beyond North America” in the second half of 2011. If it does, it will spend about $50 million on the effort.

• Reuters reports that Apple has once again delayed availability of the white iPhone 4, pushing the launch out to next spring.
• "We're sorry to disappoint customers waiting for the white iPhone again," Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said. When asked why the white phone would again be delayed, Muller declined to comment.
• • Boy Genius Report suggesting that the model has been canceled entirely instead of merely delayed until next spring as the company announced yesterday.

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• Cult of Mac now reports, however, that the problem is actually light leaking into the iPhone and affecting the performance of the device's camera.

  The white iPhone 4 can't take accurate photographs. The handset's semi-translucent glass case leaks light in, ruining pictures taken with the internal camera, especially when the built-in flash is used.
  
• "You don't get accurate pictures on the white iPhone because of the color of the glass back. It washes out the pictures," said a source with connections to Apple who asked to remain anonymous.
   
   The source said Apple has been struggling to isolate the camera sensor. The problem may demand a complete redesign, they said, hence the string of delays.

• It is rumored that Apple and Gemalto have created a SIM card, which is typically a chip that carries subscriber identification information for the carriers, that will be integrated into the iPhone itself. Then customers will then be able to choose their carrier at purchase at the Apple web site or retail store, or buy the phone and get their handset up and running through a download at the App Store as opposed to visiting a carrier store or calling the carrier.
• The report notes that the new technology would be of most use in Europe, where there are many competitive carriers operating on similar technologies within a relatively compact geographic area.
• The flash component will receive the carrier related data via a local connection which could be the PC or a dedicated device,
• • Networks will have to support this. Maybe have all networks available in iTunes.
    What about pay only sims?
    

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• The image, which dates from July 2009, suggests that Apple has intended to double the size of the existing facility all along, rather than the decision being a recent one.

• "While we will continue to sell the same batteries together with the rest of our product line after November 2nd, they will not be able to charge MacBooks without the cables," the accessory maker wrote. The official deadline is at midnight on Nov. 2, Pacific Time.
• As first revealed by AppleInsider in September, Apple has sued Sanho Corporation over alleged violation of patents it owns related to MagSafe cables, as well as cables that use the iPod 30-pin connection
• Instead of mimicking Apple's patented MagSafe connectors, Sanho's products rely on official MagSafe products actually manufactured by Apple. The company previously touted that its use of those official products ensured "maximum compatibility."
• The HyperMac product line includes a number of small, portable external batteries that can provide extra power to portable devices on the go. Apple, in its official complaint with a U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, said it notified Sanho of its alleged infringement via three official letters sent in 2010, before the complaint was filed.

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