Apple plans to announce earnings for the second fiscal quarter of 2012 this afternoon, April 24, 2012 at 2pm PT (5pm ET). The results will be followed by the typical conference call where Apple executives will delve into the details of the results and answer questions from analysts.
The second quarter is typically less exciting than the first for Apple—the first quarter includes the holiday season and numbers are usually down immediately afterwards. We may not hear much from Tim Cook or Peter Oppenheimer about unannounced products, but we do expect to hear how well the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and various Macs performed up to this point, and it's likely we'll hear some early comments about the third-generation iPad's sales since it hit the streets in mid-March.
Ars will be doing a liveblog of the earnings call and the fiscal results this afternoon, so check back later to watch and participate via the comments. The earnings call is scheduled to take place on April 24, 2012 at 2:00pm Pacific Standard Time (see when the liveblog starts in your own timezone).
(One last thing: we'll be testing our house-created liveblog software for the first time with this liveblog. While we expect it to behave smoothly for the purpose of liveblogging the Apple call, please hang with us in the event of any possible technical issues. We're hoping to iron out most of the major kinks before the next big-deal Apple liveblog, so we appreciate our loyal readers helping us test it.)
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