Apple has announced the fourth quarter financial result of the year (Q4 2011) and the results are: • $28.27 billion revenue • $6.62 billion profit • 17.07 million iPhones sold %21 growth • 11.12 million iPads sold %166 growth • 4.89 million Macs sold %26 growth • 6.62 million iPods sold %27 decline Here is Apple’s press release: Apple Reports ...
Read More »Living in the Cloud
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always dreamed of touching the clouds and walking and living in them and I’m sure many people wanted to do something like this when they were young. Years later and with the advancement of the modern technologies available to us nowadays, our dreams started to come true, without the need to fly, now ...
Read More »Comparing UAE Apple Store Prices with Saudi Arabia, USA
Rami Kayyali has compiled and compared the prices of products in the newly launched UAE Apple Store with the prices at the Apple US Store and Saudi Arabia’s distributors. The results are interesting even though the comparison does not include taxes nor custom rates. UAE Apple Store vs Saudi Arabia Prices By comparing UAE Apple Online Store with Arab Computers ...
Read More »Apple Q3 2011: Record $7.31 Billion Profits & $28.57 Billion Revenue
Apple has announced the third quarter financial result of the year (Q3 2011) and it’s a new record with profit of $7.31 billion and revenue of $28.57 billion. As for unit sales: • 20.34 million iPhones up 142% from last year’s quarter • 9.25 million iPads up 183% from last year’s quarter • 3.95 million Macs up 14% from last ...
Read More »Apple Q2 2011 Results: $5.99 Billion Profit, $24.67 Billion Revenue
Apple has announced the second quarter financial result of the year (Q2 2011) and it’s a second quarter record with the following: • $5.99 Billion Profit • $24.67 Billion Revenue • 4.69 million iPads sold • 9.02 million iPods sold (down 17% from last year’s quarter). • 18.65 million iPhones sold (up 113% from last year’s quarter). • 3.76 million ...
Read More »Apple Releases 3 New “If You Don’t Have an iPhone” Ads
Apple has released 3 new advertisements for the iPhone 4 titled “If you don’t have an iPhone” and each one demonstrate an advantage for the iPhone. These advantages are: The App Store, iBooks (and iBookstore) and iPod+iTunes. Here are the advertisements: App Store If you don’t have an iPhone, you don’t have the App Store, with the world’s largest selection ...
Read More »Apple Updates 6th Gen iPod Nano
Apple has released a software update for the iPod Nano (6th gen). The update adds a couple of new features. With iPod software update version 1.1 for iPod nano (6th generation), you will be able to: Completely turn off the iPod, rather than just put the device to sleep. Control music or radio playback using the Sleep/Wake button without having ...
Read More »Apple Reports Record $6 Billion Profit and $26.7 Billion Revenue for Q1 2011
Apple has announced their 1st fiscal quarter of the year (Q1 2011) results. It’s another record breaking quarter. • $6 billion profit • $26.7 billion revenue • 7.33 million iPads sold • 19.45 million iPods sold. down %7. • 16.24 million iPhones sold. up %86. • 4.13 million Macs sold. up %23. And here is Apple’s press release regarding these ...
Read More »Arab Computers’ Mac and iPod Offers in Saudi Arabia
Arab Computers has announced new prices for a variety of Apple products including MacBooks and iPods in Saudi Arabia. Students get an additional %5 discount on Macs as well. The new prices, including Apple’s US prices for contrast, are the following: MacBook Air 11-inch with 64GB for 4,290 SR (US price is $999) MacBook 13-inch 2.4Ghz from 4,490 SR to ...
Read More »Happy 9th birthday, Apple iPod
On the 23rd of October 2001 Apple released their first iPod and it only connect to Macs and a 5GB hard disk. Now, 9 years later, the iPod is more than a simple audio player and its models have varied: iPod mini, iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod touch and iPod classic. Here’s a video of Steve Jobs when he introduced ...
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