Wednesday Highlights: As the world sits back and lets Apple's global, historic record quarter earnings sink in, analysts ponder how and if the company can top it again, and ask where is the "inexorable rise going to lead"?; the numbers are "ludicrous"; Macworld highlights six important take-aways from the earnings call; the cash in Apple's coffer is sufficient to pay every American $556; one item for everyone's interest is that Cook says Apple Watch release to come in April, as opposed to previous expectation of March — reports aplenty on Apple's earnings in our Apple/Macintosh, Finances and Op/Ed sections; Yosemite 10.10.2 hit the download yesterday, fixes for bugs, WiFi woes, and more; Apple Store employees will go back to blue attire in February; filming underway for Jobs biopic; well, looks like Steve Jobs saw the future clearly — for Flash, that is — as YouTube sees the light, dives into the HTML 5 default; Foxconn reducing employee headcount, adding robotics; Apple Gazette's 6 tips for improved battery life on iPhone 6; switched from Android to iPhone, iMore shows how to move your music over; Peter Cohan at Forbes has six reasons he believes "Apple is still more doomed than you think".
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"Apple posts the biggest quarterly profit in history: US technology giant Apple has reported the biggest quarterly profit ever made by a public company." BBC 8:06 AM
"Apple reports largest profit in history" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:45 AM
"Apple iPhone Sales Surge Leads to Biggest Profit for Any Company Ever" ABCNews 8:57 AM
"How Tim Cook's Apple conquered the world: The most profitable firm in history wants to embed itself in every part of its customers' lives" Telegraph 1:31 PM
"How does Apple top a record quarter?" ["Now, with Apple's share price heading back towards its all-time highs, it faces the greater challenge of living up to its own raised expectations."] Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 8:11 AM
"Apple Sets Earnings Record for Publicly Traded Companies" Re/code 1:34 PM
"Apple defies law of large numbers by booking bang-up iPhone sales: Sells nearly 75 million iPhones, 46% more than ever before, on the backs of the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus" Computerworld 3:27 PM
"Money, money, money... Where is Apple's inexorable rise going to lead? The world has fallen for products that go way beyond 'must-have'" The Independent 9:05 AM
"Thanks to iPhone 6, Apple killing it in China amid stiff competition" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 4:09 PM
"The 6 things you need to know about Apple's best quarter ever" Macworld 8:06 AM
"iPhone sales trample expectations as profit sets global record" Reuters 8:15 AM
"By the numbers: Apple's ludicrous fourth quarter" AppleInsider 8:07 AM
"iPhone's double-edged sword: Big sales, big risk for Apple/Most of Apple's record revenue came from its smartphone business, but it's tricky for any company to rely so much on one product." CNET 8:17 AM
"Apple's China iPhone Coup Shows Angela Ahrendts Is Worth Every Penny" Forbes 10:10 AM
"Apple benefits from the growing phablet market" Market Realist 8:12 AM
"Apple needs the iPad to be 'long arc,' enterprise driven" ZDNet 8:09 AM
"Apple rich enough to pay everyone $556: Apple's printing money hand over fist. You knew that. What you may not know that Apple has so much dough, it could afford to pay every man, woman and child in the U.S. $556. Each." USA Today 8:45 AM
"Why is Apple sitting on $142bn? King Midas, you may remember, had a problem with gold. Everything he touched turned to the yellow stuff." BBC 1:30 PM
"Apple has mind-boggling $178 billion in cash to spend: Forget about a simple little hole. Apple CEO Tim Cook has a gaping chasm burning in his pocket." CNNMoney 10:34 AM
"Apple and IBM to launch 100 business apps for iPhone and iPad during 2015" V3 8:26 AM
"Apple's R&D spending shoots up 42% year-over-year, hit new $1.9B record in Q1" AppleInsider 7:12 PM
"Microsoft delivers public preview of OneDrive for Business for Mac: Summary:Microsoft is rolling out a first public preview of its OneDrive for Business for Mac client, and outlined new and coming updates to its OneDrive app for iOS and Windows." ZDNet 6:11 PM
"Mac OS X Yosemite features, system requirements, bugs: Apple issues 10.10.2 update to solve WiFi woes" Macworld UK 8:23 AM
"Apple goes on bug fix spree with iOS 8.1.3 and OS X 10.10.2 release" The Inquirer 8:07 AM
"Apple Releases New Tranche Of OS Updates For Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, And iOS 8" MacPrices 7:46 AM
"Apple Remote Desktop admin tool is updated for the first time in forever: First major update since October of 2013 adds Yosemite support and more." Ars Technica 4:09 PM
"Photos for Mac might be delayed for awhile" Cult of Mac 9:07 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Yosemite discussion digs into problems with the 10.10.2 Combo update package, along with more about Java, as well as jumping cursor bugs and Safari issues." MacInTouch 12:07 PM
"How to force OS X 10.10.2 to install on your Mac" MacIssues 10:59 AM
"Avoiding Botnets With a Mac" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3:06 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"SynciOS Mobile Transfer - Mac App Review" Tapscape 8:34 AM
"Apple's iPhone Targeted in a Patent Lawsuit Filed by Rosetta Wireless" Patently Apple 5:50 PM
"Industry body says Apple advocates rules that would give patent trolls access to injunctions" Foss Patents 8:38 AM
"Apple Store employees to get updated attire, go 'back to blue' starting Feb. 2" AppleInsider 8:07 AM
"Apple takes high road in China smartphone standoff with Xiaomi" Reuters 8:42 AM
"An iPhone for Nearly Everyone in Iran" 24/7 Wall St. 7:42 AM
"Apple's iOS beats Android in fourth-quarter activations: Apple's operating system accounted for 50 percent of all US activations in the fourth quarter, inching out Android's 45 percent share." CNET 10:59 AM
"Google Play downloads are growing, but Apple's App Store commands 70% of revenue" AppleInsider 9:18 AM
"Marissa Mayer Says Yahoo Would 'Welcome the Opportunity' to Become Default Safari Search Engine" MacRumors 9:59 AM
"More Goods News For Apple? 'Steve Jobs' Biopic Finally Gets Underway" Benzinga 8:12 AM
"Meet the official cast of the Steve Jobs movie" Cult of Mac 1:43 PM
"Principal filming finally underway for Sorkin/Boyle Steve Jobs biopic, sticking with 'three keynote' focus" 9to5Mac 8:07 AM
"Jobs Biopic Cast Named: From Avie to Chrisann, Hertzfeld to Scully" FairerPlatform 7:45 AM
"How one of the best films at Sundance was shot using an iPhone 5S" The Verge 8:30 AM
Non-Apple News
"Samsung's mobile profits plunge 64.2% after Apple's iPhone 6 devastates premium Galaxy sales" AppleInsider 9:37 PM
"This is what Bill Gates thinks of Microsoft's HoloLens" VentureBeat 1:43 PM
"Sony's 'Music Unlimited' Service Shutting Down After Failing to Emerge as Viable iTunes Alternative" MacRumors 11:20 AM
"App Annie Index: 2014 Retrospective - The Top App Trends of 2014" App Annie 10:45 AM
"App Annie Reveals The Top 9 App Trends From 2014" TechCrunch 10:44 AM
"Kids under 13 spend an average of 2 hours a day playing mobile games" Gigaom 9:59 AM
"FCC to hotels: blocking Wi-Fi hotspots is illegal!" iDownload Blog 9:18 AM
"Head of games leaves Angry Birds company Rovio" Reuters 8:43 AM
"YouTube's HTML5 video a big nail in Flash coffin/By using Web standards by default to deliver YouTube video, Google helps the Web root out Adobe's Flash. The next challenge for the Web: competing with mobile apps." CNET 1:32 PM
"YouTube Puts Another Nail in Flash's Coffin with HTML5 on the Desktop" The Mac Observer 9:29 AM
"Flash is DEAD! YouTube goes all-in with HTML5" BetaNews 8:22 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"ACM 291: Apple's Massive Numbers and the Rosetta Stone for Apple Timing" The Mac Observer 7:37 PM
"TMO Daily Observations 2015-01-28: AAPL Q1 2015 Earnings, YouTube Dumps Flash" The Mac Observer 1:24 PM
"Let's Talk Jailbreak 92: Jailbreaking accessibility" iDownload Blog 8:34 AM
"How big is the iOS ecosystem? Answer: Huge, and growing fast" ZDNet 10:32 AM
"Apple Watch release date set for April" The Inquirer 8:07 AM
"It's official: the Apple Watch will see daylight in April, not March" TechnologyTell 9:28 AM
"Apple Watch Release Set for April" OS X Daily 11:54 AM
"Apple supplier Foxconn seeks to slim workforce over time, eyes robotics" Reuters 8:42 AM
"Speaker test ranks every iPhone model in order of loudness" Cult of Mac 8:29 AM
"Apple Goes Bug Hunting With iOS 8.1.3: The update does not appear to fix the slow Wi-Fi and battery-drain issues that have been plaguing older iDevices." PC Magazine 4:06 PM
"Apple releases iOS 8.1.3 to fix bugs" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 12:01 PM
"iOS 8.1.3 closes off TaiG jailbreak" MacNN 9:59 AM
"Apple issues iOS 8.1.3 and Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 updates with security fixes" V3 9:53 AM
"iPad Turns Five – The 'Book Mystique" MacPrices 8:49 AM
"Dear Skeptics, Here's How Apple Will Continue To Demolish Expectations" Business Insider 8:37 AM
"Never mind the Apple Watch: Where's Apple Glass?" iMore 8:31 AM
"Google's Eric Schmidt says Steve Jobs is his personal hero (LOL)" Cult of Mac 8:30 AM
"How many iPhones did Apple REALLY sell?" BetaNews 8:22 AM
"Apple Just Reported A Record Quarter, But Analysts Wanted To Talk About Only The US Dollar — Here's Why" Business Insider 8:22 AM
"6 Reasons Apple Is Still More Doomed Than You Think" Forbes 8:13 AM
"Apple And The 'If You Can't Beat 'em Join 'em' Theory Of Business" Mac 360 7:44 AM
"The Rise And Fall Of Apple v. Microsoft" Mac 360 7:44 AM
Non-Apple
"Is data privacy just a dream? Data Privacy Day brings reflection on our security sins, but it's hard to find a perfect protector of data. Even Blackphone's extra-encrypted Slient Text app was found with a security flaw." CNET 3:53 PM
"Honeymoon Is Ending For Microsoft's Nadella" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:53 AM
"Microsoft Surface hits $1bn revenue: Mission accomplished?" ZDNet 8:09 AM
"Windows 10: 7 Pressing Questions For Microsoft" InformationWeek 4:06 PM
"Microsoft kills the Surface 2 and Windows RT with it" The Inquirer 8:07 AM
"Microsoft Stops Making Surface 2, Pushes Windows RT Toward Exit Door" Digital Trends 8:20 AM
"HoloLens: Abracadabra! Microsoft unveils a great distraction" Computerworld 8:15 AM
"HoloLens: Look who's innovating/It's Microsoft, and its latest moves suggest a real shift in the corporate culture" Computerworld 8:15 AM
"Bill Gates working on mysterious 'Personal Agent' project at Microsoft" The Verge 5:49 PM
"Once-tiny Microsoft has overtaken the mighty IBM" ZDNet 10:32 AM
"IBM Layoffs Nowhere Near 112,000, Even With Divestitures" TheStreet 9:03 AM
"IBM Denies 100,000 Layoffs: IBM claims that it will lay off workers, but barely even a tenth of the 100,000 that was reported earlier. Moreover, jobs in the company's New York offices are expected to be safe" Bidness Etc 9:04 AM
"Looks like those IBM layoffs have started" Gigaom 3:31 PM
"IBM Employees Say That Layoffs Have Begun" Business Insider 1:25 PM
"IBM jobs axe: 'The cuts have started and are spreading' cry staff" The Register 3:52 PM
"IBM Cloud-Computing Executive Leaves: Lance Crosby Was Chief Executive of SoftLayer, Which IBM Bought for $2 Billion in 2013" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10:44 AM
"IBM's Head of SoftLayer Quits as Big Blue Shifts to Cloud" Bloomberg 11:54 AM
"CEO Of SoftLayer, Lance Crosby, Has Left The (IBM) Building" Forbes 11:55 AM
"IBM plans to broadly offer its Identity Mixer technology" ZDNet 8:09 AM
"IBM details Identity Mixer for preserving user authentication privacy" V3 8:26 AM
"East Africa: IBM's 'Identity Mixer' to Help Users Better Protect Online Personal Data" All Africa 9:04 AM
"HP still leads notebook pack, but Lenovo is on its heels: HP snagged 20.1 percent of the notebook market worldwide in 2014, according to research firm TrendForce, but Lenovo is catching up fast." CNET 1:32 PM
"Dell aims upgraded laptop at Mac-using creative pros: Looking for a profitable niche, the PC maker gives its 15-inch M3800 workstation a 4K display, Thunderbolt 2 and new storage options to coax video editors and others who use Apple laptops." CNET 9:50 AM
"Dell sharpens Precision M3800 workstation laptop with 4K display" ZDNet 8:09 AM
"A 13-Year-Old Made A Revolutionary Invention Out Of Lego And Now Intel Is Investing In His Company" Business Insider 10:04 AM
"AMD's Zen CPU rumoured to replace Bulldozer" PCR 9:24 AM
"Arctic Islands is the purported codename of AMD's Radeon R9 400 series" TweakTown 9:24 AM
"Five years of Sun software under Oracle: Were the critics right?" The Register 8:14 AM
"Win Sun, lose Sun: How Larry's bet on old-world systems hurt Oracle" The Register 8:14 AM
"Oracle Service Cloud Upgraded, Explained" InformationWeek 4:06 PM
"Cisco integration gives Samsung Knox users more options for secure connectivity" IDG News Service 8:20 AM
"EU wants single data protection law in place by end of 2015" V3 8:26 AM
"Internet of Things: Governments start to take a closer look" ZDNet 8:34 AM
"Qualcomm confirms that a 'large customer' has dropped the Snapdragon 810: It won't specify which OEM, but Samsung is a leading candidate." Ars Technica 4:56 PM
"Qualcomm's Snapdragon woes mount as a 'major customer' defects: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 has been dropped from a 'flagship device'" IDG News Service 8:08 PM
"Bill Gates is worried about artificial intelligence too: Microsoft's co-founder and former CEO is the latest luminary from the world of technology and science to warn against the threat of smart machines." CNET 5:23 PM
"IoT pushes enterprises to outsource datacentres: Summary:Digital Realty's Damien Spillane believes the deployment of datacentres through third-party providers will continue to grow as more data is accumulated due to the growth of the Internet of Things." ZDNet 8:59 PM
"AAPL share price hovering near all-time high" TUAW 10:13 AM
"Apple added $50 billion to its market cap overnight after crushing earnings" Mashable 9:33 AM
"AAPL up 8% to near record highs, bringing the rest of the market with it" 9to5Mac 9:28 AM
"74.5 million iPhones is ...: Apple had a record-setting quarter during the last three months of 2014, posting the biggest corporate profit for any company in history." CNNMoney 9:18 AM
"Market Snapshot: U.S. Stocks Sell Off After Fed Statement" MarketWatch 4:10 PM
"U.S. Stocks Give Up Gains After Fed Statement" Reuters 4:10 PM
"US stocks edge higher in midday trading; Apple up sharply" Associated Press 11:58 AM
"U.S. Stocks End Lower: Falling Oil Prices Weigh Down Energy Sector" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:10 PM
"Alibaba shares drop on Chinese report of fake sales" USA Today 9:52 AM
"Asia Markets: Japan stocks rise to fresh one-month high as yen weakens/Shanghai stocks buck the trend and extend losses" MarketWatch 8:44 AM
"Europe Markets: Greek stocks slide to lowest since 2012/Greek stocks tanked for a third straight day on Wednesday as the country's new government started to unravel key parts of its bailout agreement, while the broader European markets fell after a mixed batch of corporate updates." MarketWatch 8:44 AM
"Europe shares lower; Apple up 7%; Greece down 7%" CNBC 7:52 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 1:34 PM
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