Comments on: Apple Conference Call: The Non-Boring Stuff

By: Omar

Omar — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:26:02 +0000

The $45.8 billion in cash is actually cash and short investments. Thats what Apple had been saving from the revenues of many quarters.

By: Pighead/MostlyHarmless

Pighead/MostlyHarmless — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:34:39 +0000

“Apple now has $45.8 billion in cash, enough to pay for the Olympics in Beijing, bailout Greece, buy Warren Buffet, or every Apple fan’s dream, Nintendo”

NOT POSSIBLE.

They might’ve earned 45.8 billion but they can’t have it in cash form. Just not possible. So yes, they can’t do all those things because a lot of earnings go to paying costs.

By: Smellykitty

Smellykitty — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:00:43 +0000

Wrong….Jobs already diverted iPhone4 reception probs when he had his little conference and offered out free bumpers. Live in the past much? Wake up. iPhone4 IS the most successful product launch to date.

By: Charles Jade

Charles Jade — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:06:15 +0000

To date, Archos devices have had no impact on the handheld or tablet market, not to mention decidedly mixed reviews. At this late stage in the evolution of the handheld media player, and with Apple’s dominant iPod touch and iTunes Store, it seems highly unlikely to me a real competitor will emerge before everything is a phone. But I could be wrong. I usually am.

By: The Scientia

The Scientia — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:19:08 +0000

iPhone 4 was incredibly successful. It made over 3,000,000 sales in 80 days. If it was a failure, people would be returning them all! Quoting from The iPhone Antenna Song ‘the media loves a failure in a string of successes.’That is why the iPhone 4′s antenna has had so much publicity

By: The Scientia

The Scientia — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:09:18 +0000

Wow the iPad has accounts for 16% of Apple’s revenues and it was released in March.

By: Kitsch Kinkly

Kitsch Kinkly — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:43:23 +0000

Agreed, love my iTouch, hate hate HATE iTunes. Call me nostalgic, but I’m still using Winamp to manage my media library on the PC. Hopefully one day soon it will include support for the iTouch (its been supporting legacy iPods/minis/nanos for years now).

By: Kitsch Kinkly

Kitsch Kinkly — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:40:02 +0000

“As for the iPod touch, there will probably never be an Android media player because handheld devices without cellular modems are ultimately doomed, though that’s probably five years into the future.”

Archos has an Android media player on the market, and its been around since September.

http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_5it/index.html

Granted I don’t know what sales of the device amount to, but there are Android media devices out there.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:54:40 +0000

I still hate that the ipad must be tethered to a computer. Running itunes on a PC is abysmal, which is why i ditched the ipod.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:46:20 +0000

@URS

Sorry, that’s simply not true. I’ve checked the press and blog archives back in May 2009 and there is an equal amount of hype and talk about what turned out to be the 3GS. The bottom line is that there wasn’t the spike there has been.

I agree about the fragmentation but it’s less important than people think.