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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
 

 

Apple/Macintosh
Apple Q2 Results
  • "Apple Reports Second Quarter Results: Record March Quarter Sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs/Net Profit Increases 94% Year-over-Year" ["The Company sold 35.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 88 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 11.8 million iPads during the quarter, a 151 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4 million Macs during the quarter, a 7 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.7 million iPods, a 15 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter."]  Apple 3:46 PM
  • "Apple Reports Second Quarter Results: Record March Quarter Sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs/Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $24.7 billion and net profit of $6.0 billion, or $6.40 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 47.4 percent compared to 41.4 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter's revenue." Business Wire 3:35 PM
  • "Apple's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript"  Seeking Alpha 8:28 PM
  • "Apple executives speak: On toaster-fridges, financial guidance, and lawsuits"  Macworld 8:26 PM
  • "Apple Rides iPhone Frenzy: Quarterly Profit Nearly Doubles as Tech Giant Taps China, New Markets" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:48 PM
  • "And the Beats Go On: Apple Crushes Estimates Again" AllThingsD 3:59 PM
  • "Apple Profit Surges 94% on Strong iPhone, iPad Sales" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:17 PM
  • "Apple's profit nearly doubles: offset recent drops in U.S. orders. The earnings report sent Apple shares up 7.31% to $601, erasing part of a weeks-long decline." Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 9:17 PM
  • "Strong iPhone sales overshadow new iPad in Apple earnings: Apple turned in better than expected earnings today, posting record sales of the iPhone and iPad." CNET News 4:30 PM
  • "Apple Earnings: That's a Blowout" WSJ Blogs 3:55 PM
  • "Apple Second-Quarter Profit Beats Estimates" [Video Report] Bloomberg 3:55 PM
  • "Apple Crushes Estimates With $12.30 EPS, $39.2B Revenue (Video)" Forbes 4:25 PM
  • "Apple Reports $11.6 Billion Q2 2012 Profit" TidBITS 7:55 PM
  • "Apple crushes Street targets, dispels iPhone fears" Reuters 4:29 PM
  • "Apple Trumps Expectations, Sells 35M IPhones In 2Q" Associated Press 4:30 PM
  • "Apple Profit Rises on Higher iPhone and iPad Sales" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:29 PM
  • "Apple profit nearly doubles on solid iPhone sales" CNNMoney 3:54 PM
  • "Apple Earnings Blow Past Expectations; Shares Rise" CNBC 3:54 PM
  • "Apple Results Top Estimates as iPhone Sales Soar" Forbes 3:55 PM
  • "Apple soars on back of iPhone sales" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 8:14 PM
  • "AAPL Rises 7%: FYQ2 Beats, Q3 View Weak; 35M iPhones Sold" Barron's 3:54 PM
  • "Apple Sells 35.1M iPhones, 11.8M iPads in Quarter" Mashable 4:00 PM
  • "Apple doubles quarterly profits to $11.6bn (£7.2bn)" BBC 4:57 PM
  • "Apple: we could settle patent fights if others would 'invent their own stuff'" Ars Technica 8:26 PM
  • "Apple's iPhone Sales In China Are Up By Fivefold From A Year Ago" TechCrunch 4:23 PM
  • "Apple Stores Continue To Be A Juggernaut, With $4.4B In Revenue, 85M Visitors To Stores In Q2" TechCrunch 4:38 PM
  • "Apple's $8 Billion Media Business" AllThingsD 8:14 PM
  • "Apple 2nd quarter earnings: By the numbers/Strong iPhone and iPad sales boosted Apple's results, which are likely to revise the recent selloff of the stock." CNET News 5:00 PM
  • "Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer: 'The New iPad Is On Fire'" TechCrunch 5:28 PM
  • "Apple iPhone Crushes Doubts ... For Now" Barron's 7:47 PM
  • "Apple Earnings: Blowing The Door Off The Hinges" 24/7 Wall St. 4:25 PM
  • "Apple's iTunes Stores Generates $1.9B In Revenue in Q2, Has 600,000 Apps" TechCrunch 5:28 PM
  • "Tim Cook Spells Out the Rapid Growth of Apple's iPad" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:45 PM
  • "Apple CEO on legal spats: I prefer to settle/Tim Cook adds, however, that he doesn't want Apple to 'become the developer for the world.'" CNET News 7:59 PM
  • "Tim Cook on ongoing Android litigation: 'We'd prefer to settle, not battle'" 9 to 5 Mac 5:00 PM
  • "Unlike 'Thermonuclear' Steve Jobs, Apple CEO Tim Cook Says He'd Rather 'Settle' Litigation" TechCrunch 5:28 PM
  • "Cook: Apple Hates Litigation But Others Need to 'Invent Their Own Stuff'" The Mac Observer 5:27 PM
  • "Apple's Q2 2012: $11.6B In Profit, $39.2B In Revenue, 35.1M iPhones Sold" TechCrunch 4:00 PM
  • "New iPad's First Quarter Not a Blowout with 11.8 Million Tablets Sold" AllThingsD 3:57 PM
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook Trashes Convertible Computers Touted By Microsoft, Intel" Forbes 7:46 PM
  • "Apple continues to face supply constraints with new iPad" AppleInsider 8:29 PM
  • "Apple's US K12 customers snapped up two iPads for every Mac this quarter" AppleInsider 8:29 PM
Apple News
  • "Apple Wins Discovery Ruling in Samsung Infringement Suit: Apple Inc. won a court determination that Samsung Electronics Co. violated court orders in a patent-infringement case by failing to produce documents referencing Apple features and designs."  Bloomberg Businessweek 9:47 PM
  • "The Two-Horse Smartphone Race: Apple, Samsung Use Different Playbooks in Battle for Supremacy; For Rivals, It's Specialty vs. Scale"  WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:09 AM
  • "Apple, Samsung Tangle in Smartphone Race: Apple and Samsung have emerged as runaway leaders in the smartphone industry. But they have climbed to the top using very different playbooks. Jessica Vascellaro reports on digits." [Video Report] MarketWatch 1:23 PM
  • "Contracts With Apple Should Blunt Any Carrier Push-Back on iPhone Subsidies"  AllThingsD 7:54 AM
  • "Relax Everyone, Apple's Doing Fine" Mashable 12:28 PM
  • "A guide to Apple's guidance: Over the past 8 quarters, it beat its EPS estimate by 42%, revenue by 18%" Fortune 8:03 AM
  • "Apple Financial Results: Conference Call Q2 2012/April 24, 2012 2pm PT/5pm ET" Apple Events 9:06 AM
  • "Apple: Don't Believe the Negative Hype" [Video Report]  TheStreet 12:08 PM
  • "Apple's Core: The iPhone" TheStreet 12:29 PM
  • "Apple infringes on Motorola Mobility patent: Apple Inc infringed on a Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc patent in making its popular iPhones, iPads and other products, a judge for the International Trade Commission ruled on Tuesday."  Reuters 1:24 PM
  • "Apple settles ebook case in Europe: Here in Europe, ebook price fixing investigations have resulted in Apple offering to settle" Macworld UK 8:26 AM
  • "Samsung filed its defenses against Apple's second U.S. preliminary injunction motion" Foss Patents 8:36 AM
  • "Chinese official sides with Proview in iPad trademark dispute" Reuters 8:18 AM
  • "Chinese Court Mediates iPad Trademark Fight" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10:15 AM
  • "Court Is Mediating iPad Trademark Fight" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:15 AM
  • "Chinese Official Says Proview Owns iPad Trademark, Not Apple" AllThingsD 12:29 PM
  • "Apple Can Afford to Make iPhone in U.S., Researchers Claim"  PC Magazine 12:03 PM
  • "Here's How Much Money Apple Would Lose by Manufacturing the iPhone in the U.S." Business Insider 12:18 PM
  • "China's rare earth policy backs Apple into a corner: Report says fondleslabs factories are located near source" The Register 12:02 PM