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( Back to Top ) Apple Q4 All-Time High for Mac and iPad, Analysts Sad-Faced Anyway
Tue, Oct 18 @ 3:06 PM
There may not have been a new iPhone this past summer, but Apple continued to ride high in its fiscal fourth quarter anyway, reporting record sales of the Mac and iPad product lines as well as the company's highest September quarter revenue and earnings ever -- but go figure, the analysts are looking at the glass as half empty anyway.Apple announced its quarterly financial results for the fiscal 2011 fourth quarter which ended on September 24. Even without a new iPhone over the summer, the company still racked up quarterly revenue of $28.27 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.62 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share. Last year at the same time, Apple had revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 per diluted share. The company's gross margin was 40.3 percent compared to 36.9 percent in the same quarter a year ago, with international sales accounting for 63 percent of the quarterly revenue.That may sound like good news to many of us, but Wall Street looked at the report glumly, with Apple missing their own expectations of $7.22 per share and revenue of $29.5 billion. According to FactSet data reported by The Wall Street Journal, Apple hasn't missed earnings forecasts since the second quarter of 2002, but others are saying sometime in 2004 instead. Whatever the case, the stock fell eight percent after hours but rebounded just a bit to close at $398 per share.While Apple has already sold more than four million iPhone 4S devices in the first weekend which won't be accounted for until next quarter, the company still managed to move 17.07 million of the older handsets in the current quarter, a 21 percent year-over-year growth and certainly nothing to sneeze at. 11.2 million iPads flew out the door, marking a 166 percent increase from the same quarter last year, with 4.89 million Macs also finding homes in the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase."We are thrilled with the very strong finish of an outstanding fiscal 2011, growing annual revenue to $108 billion and growing earnings to $26 billion," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "Customer response to iPhone 4S has been fantastic, we have strong momentum going into the holiday season, and we remain really enthusiastic about our product pipeline."One product category that took a hit was the iPod, which sold only 6.62 million units during the quarter, marking a 27 percent decline from the same quarter last year -- but certainly not bad for a lineup that's now a decade old, and the iPod continues to hold more than 70 percent market share."We are extremely pleased with our record September quarter revenue and earnings and with cash generation of $5.4 billion during the quarter," said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO. "Looking ahead to the first fiscal quarter of 2012, which will span 14 weeks rather than 13, we expect revenue of about $37 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $9.30." As usual, Apple held a conference call to provide further highlights and field questions from analysts and investors, with CEO Tim Cook noting that it marks the first since the passing of co-founder Steve Jobs. "The world has lost a visionary and an amazing human being," Cook stated. "He was an amazing leader and mentor. His spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple, and we are dedicated to continuing the amazing work that he loved so much."Cook then got down to business by turning things over to CFO Peter Oppenheimer, who repeated most of the details from Apple's earlier press release before throwing out some additional numbers. These included iTunes Store revenue of $1.5 billion, 180 million iBooks sold, $11 billion in revenue from iPhone handsets and accessories, and six billion downloads of OS X Lion in the quarter.Asia-Pacific growth doubled year over year, which the company was expecting to fall when it became clear in June that no new iPhone was on the horizon. The handset is now available on 230 carriers in 105 countries, with Consumer Reports listing the device with its highest customer satisfaction rating for the sixth consecutive time. 93 percent of Fortune 500 companies are now either deploying or testing the iPhone, up from 91 percent last year.The App Store is also flying high, with 22 more countries enlisted during the quarter for a total of 123. Retail stores are also enjoying "very strong" year-over-year growth, particularly for Mac and iPad sales, which enjoyed their best quarter ever -- which no doubt helped lessen the blow from the iPhone 4S being unveiled in fiscal Q1 2012 instead.Last but not least, during the closing question and answer session, Cook proclaimed confidence that Apple would have record sales for the next quarter, which includes the all-important holiday season. That quarter will also bring the iPhone 4S to another 22 countries at month's end, with even more coming by year's end -- so while the analysts may be bummed out now, come mid-January they should be shiny, happy people all over again.Follow this article's author, J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter
Tuesday Recap: Apple Wanted Dropbox, $200 for Used iPhone 4, iPad mini Rumors Redux
Tue, Oct 18 @ 3:27 PM
The big news of the day is undoubtedly Apple's fourth-quarter results for fiscal 2011, but that's hardly the only thing making news today. Today we've got a bum Apple TV update, a cool new version of Fantastical with editing support, more iPad mini rumors and more worth reading about for this fine Tuesday, October 18, 2011.Fantastical 1.1 Now Available, Edit and Delete In TowFlexibits has announced the availability of Fantastical 1.1, a pretty fantastic(al) update to the company's menu bar-based calendar app. In addition to iCloud calendar support, the update adds user-requested features including editing and deleting events and even event notes. The update is free for existing users and available now in either the Mac App Store or the Flexibits Store, depending upon where you originally purchased it. Fantastic!Apple TV 4.4.1 Update Available, But Don't Install It YetApple pushed out a 4.4.1 update for the second-generation Apple TV late Monday, but according to Cult of Mac, you may want to avoid installing it for now. A number of users are reporting the update has "bricked" their device, although all is not lost since savvy owners can plug it into their Mac and use iTunes to get things back to normal. But it sounds like Apple may have some more work to do, so approach with caution -- especially since the update doesn't even list what it's supposed to address in the first place.Report Reveals How Apple Tried To Buy DropboxForbes.com has an extensive article on Dropbox called "The Inside Story of Tech's Hottest Startup," which is currently online and will be available in the November 7 print edition. The story features a peek at former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' attempts to purchase Dropbox back in late 2009, which were rebuffed by developer Drew Houston, whose company has since gone on to earn $240 million in 2011 with a team of only 70 (most of whom are engineers). It's an interesting anecdote in Jobs history, and one of the rare stories of a fish that got away."iPad mini" Rumors Come Bubbling Up AgainApple continues to dismiss inquiries about a smaller iPad, even while Android-based rivals continue to flood the market with seven-inch tablets including next month's debut of the Kindle Fire from Amazon. According to a report from MacRumors, Apple is working on what many have dubbed the "iPad mini" for early 2012, which will feature a 7.85-inch screen that packs in the same 1024x768 resolution as the current model. Can Cupertino use a cheaper, smaller device to ward off newcomers like the $199 Kindle Fire? Time will tell...Last Call: NextWorth Wants Your Old iPhone 4The folks at NextWorth.com pinged the MacLife staff today to let us know that used iPhone 4 values have started to plummet now that the iPhone 4S is landing in customers' hands. If you're still on the fence about what to do with your old, now unloved iPhone 4, the company has announced you can lock in a value of $200 from now through Monday, October 24 for either a 16GB or 32GB AT&T model. Quotes are valid for 21 days, which should be plenty of time to get your iPhone 4S, clear your data off the old model and ship it in. In order to qualify, iPhone 4 models must be in good working condition with no heavy scratches or cracks, which is considered "good" condition. Hit the company's website for more details or to cash in today.Follow this article's author, J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter
App Showdown: PDF Annotators
Tue, Oct 18 @ 10:15 AM
Last week we tried to figure who had the easiest way to turn our own documents into PDFs. But what if someone sends us one and -- even worse -- wants us to fill it out, sign it and send it back? Well, that'd be a whole 'nother kettle of digital fish, wouldn't it? Can someone scratch our PDF annotating itch? PDF Expert ($9.99/iPad) PDF Expert for the iPhone ($9.99/iPhone) Readdle is clearly the name you have to think of yourself as going up against when you bring your document management software to the App Store. And here it's no different as the famed developer brings its PDF annotation software to iOS with this pair of pricey if hugely functional apps for the iPhone and the iPad. The usual sorts of controlsAlong the left hand side of the screen run your controls in the iPad version, while the iPhone flavor puts them at the bottom of the screen. In either case, they pack the same wallop. Tap the Documents folder to open a list of your docs. Tap Recents to see the last few docs you had open. Network gives you access to a host of cloud storage options (though as of this writing, the app was still offering up your MobileMe iDisk as an option). Settings lets you choose things like scrolling direction, to open the document the moment you finish downloading it, to lock the app with a passcode, and more. Might be time to update some of that cloud storage there, Readdle This is all pretty usual stuff. It's when you open the app that the magic really kicks in. Across the top of the app appear buttons to get annotating. Draw squares, circles, lines, arrows; highlight text or underline it or strikethrough. You can also add sticky notes or type directly on the document. Even more impressive are the stamps you can add to your document such as "Draft," "Final," "For Comment," "Sign Here," or even create your own custom stamps in four different colors. Highlighting, typing, underlining, freehand, VOID stamp, form fields, this one does it all Best of all for professional users, tap the fancy pen icon to open the signature panel. Sign at the bottom of the screen and PDF Expert saves your signature for later. Tap and hold on the document and the options menu that appears includes "Signature." Tap it and you can either put in your own by selecting "My Signature" or if you need someone else's tap "Custom Signature" for their one-time, not saved John Hancock. Not my real signature; my handwriting's much worse Finally, open a PDF that's been set up with form fields that you fill in and PDF Expert recognizes this complex format. Tap in the fields, up pops the keyboard, and you can fill in whatever the document requires. Type in the text fields, check marks in the boxes, and all the other features Adobe includes. Best of all, every annotation exports fully to Preview and Acrobat. It's this last feature that sets PDF Expert apart from other PDF annotators out there. iAnnotate ($9.99/iPad) Designed almost to look like Chrome, Aji's iAnnotate opens each document in its own tab. Seven buttons run across the app's top. The file cabinet takes you to your document management page where you can see recents, unread PDFs, tag and mail documents. A wrench icon allowed us to add toolbars, the gear took us to settings, and the Share button gave us multiple email options. Down and up arrows allow you to get documents into iAnnotate or out of it, though the app is limited in its access. The only web service built in is Dropbox or a WebDAV, though you can download from the web with the built in browser. We could get to box.net but getting a document out of it into the app was more tricky. A very fully featured control panel hides in the filing cabinetWhat's more, you'll have to know the name of the document when you pull up your cloud service, or you'll have to have a very organized folder system, as iAnnotate oddly uses a text document-like icon to indicate PDFs instead of the familiar red one from Adobe. To be fair, the developers probably didn't feel they needed official icons since PDFs are all this app opens. Are those text files or PDFs? Inside the documents themselves, though, iAnnotate is chock full of options. Tap the dialog balloon to leave a sticky note, the pencil to scribble across your document, the highlighter to highlight text, the underline button to do what you'd think, the typewriter to put font text directly on the document, and the pencil box to open up a toolbox packed with more. Here you can take screenshots of the page open, can share the PDF through email, set a photo on the document, and record an audio note up to sixty seconds. Lots of good controls and tools to annotate your documents These are amazing features and to some extent even outgun Readdle: 206 stamps to PDF Expert's 18 -- though to be fair, many of iAnnotate's are different colored versions of the same thing. Both allow you to create custom stamps, so ultimately it comes out something of a wash. However, iAnnotate failed with field forms in PDF format, as we opened a form to fill out and found our text and check boxes had disappeared. It's fun to add an audio note, but it didn't show up once we exported from the app GoodReader for iPad ($4.99/iPad)GoodReader for iPhone ($4.99/iPhone) We expected great things from Good.iWare Ltd's GoodReader, as it was one of the first document management apps we purchased back when it sold for just $0.99 and all we had was an iPhone. When we got our iPad, that version was among our first purchases. While attending college with a PDF heavy reading list, GoodReader was literally a lifesaver. It handled all the massive files we threw at it and great new features were ladled in nearly every month. Lots of document management possibilities here When they finally added in annotations, we knew we could use it to mark up our documents to our heart's content. You start in the My Documents screen and can add from your Dopbox, Box.net, SugarSync, WebDAV accounts, and the latest updates have added in iCloud access. A built-in browser can also take you to content. GoodReader even goes most services one better by allowing you to add your email account, giving you access to attachments deep in your archives. GoodReader lets you dig deep and that doesn't even count iCloud However you get your document into the app, your PDF is now yours for the mark up. The moment you open a PDF and the annotation tool, you are asked if you want to keep your original copy and make a separate annotated version. Whichever you choose, GoodReader then puts the tools in your hand. Draw lines, arrows, boxes, and circles; highlight, underline, squiggly underline, or strikethrough text. Tap the dialog bubble to add in comments or use the typewriter function to type directly onto the document. Every pen tool allows you to pick from millions of colors, seven thicknesses, and four levels of opacity. Tools are very customizable, as you can see All annotations are visible when you open your PDF in Preview or in Acrobat, and GoodReader's set of document management tools is still the one to beat with its use of optical character recognition to produce text-only views of the document (newer, native PDFs only), its adjustable brightness night view, a table of contents that includes bookmarks and annotations, and its wide range of other formats the app opens. Typing -- or anything else -- is easy to move and readjust If there's one place GoodReader stumbles, it's in the management of form field PDFs. Currently it can not recognize this element of PDFs and any signatures added would have to be done free hand every time. Unless you particularly find yourself needing this functionality frequently, it'd be hard to pass up an app with this much power. But until they can bring this function to the app, it's a glaring gap in GoodReader's Sign on the dotted line iAnnotate has some great things like a lot but the implementation can be confusing (it comes with a 52 page manual after all), but its not entirely a case of bigger is better. We'd gladly trade some stamps and photo embedding for field form completion and signatures. We love GoodReader and can't sing its praises high enough. It handles most common formats and allows for document annotation. Throw in field forms and at half the price of Readdle's it'd be our unreserved recommendation. But if you're looking for unparalleled annotation power, Readdle has the winner by a good stretch. Most annotations, once you get past note taking , highlighting, and underlining, are flash without much substance. Readdle clearly gets this and focuses their energy on the kinds of functionality power PDF users are really after. Toss in a companion iPhone app for total PDF annotation portability and there's really no competition.
Cut the Rope: Experiments Review
Tue, Oct 18 @ 12:34 PM
Have you still not gotten around to downloading the original Cut the Rope? Go. Now. Download that wonderful game and don't look back. It's ten times the puzzle game Angry Birds could ever be! And it's from that point of lofty praise that the sequel has to pick up the baton and continue the legacy. Thankfully, Cut the Rope: Experiments is more than up to the task. On the one hand, this isn't a startlingly different iteration of the formula, but it didn't really need to be. Cut the Rope was a fantastic experience, and all we ever wanted was a bit more. Cut the Rope: Experiments provides that and quite a bit more. While Experiments is currently a bit short at 75 levels (though it may take you a few hours to puzzle them out), plenty of content is planned for future updates.It's also more inventive than we thought was possible with the simple core Cut the Rope gameplay formula. The most entertaining new additions are the rope guns that fire out a plunger with a rope attached. With just a tap, you can fire a rope across the screen to attach to your piece of candy, and it opens up a wealth of new level themes which really keep the game fresh. There's also a suction cup, which can attach and detach from the back wall with a single touch, and it adds another interesting new way to play Cut the Rope. The bottom line. What we love most about Cut the Rope: Experiments is that it doesn't forget its roots. It's still Cut the Rope through and through, from its gameplay to the light-hearted, semi-adorable tone. That said, it would've been nice to see a bit more variance from the original and a meatier package to support this second standalone release -- but Experiments remains a great experience for the paltry price of $0.99.Review Synopsis Product: Cut the Rope: Experiments 1.0 Company: ZeptoLab UK Contact: http://zeptolab.com Price: <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=ApuPaiKIpxg&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fcut-the-rope-experiments%252Fid450542233%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store">$0.99</a> Requirements: iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or later Positives: Om Nom is still adorable. Great puzzles. Fresh and cool mechanics. Negatives: Not enough is new here. Feels a little sparse with just 75 levels (but updates are coming). Score: 4 Great
4 Tips for Using Safari for iOS 5
Tue, Oct 18 @ 8:24 AM
With all of the new features now available in Safari for iOS 5, there's almost no other reason to call upon third-party mobile browsers. Here's a look at four new features Apple bundled into Safari in iOS 5, and how you can take full advantage of them.1. Reading ListBefore Reading List became available in iOS 5, we relied on third-party apps like Instapaper. While you might have your reasons for sticking to those services, it'll be no surprise if a majority of iOS users end up commiting to Safari's built-in reader. After all, it's an easy way to sync unread web articles with your Mac, PC, and iOS devices.To add a page to your Reading List on a Mac, simply click the plus (+) button to the left of the address field in Safari. In the resulting dialog, select "Reading List" from the drop-down menu, and then click Add.To add a page to your Reading List in iOS 5, tap on the action menu, and then select "Add to Reading List".To view your bookmarked Reading List items, open your Bookmarks, and then select Reading List. Once in your Reading List, you can sort by All or just Unread. Tap on one of the items to be taken directly to the page.The process is similar for Reading List on the Mac. Just select View > Reading List from the menubar.2. ReaderReader has been a staple in the Safari web browser for a couple years now, allowing you to quickly and easily remove the clutter on many websites, leaving just the content in an easy-to-read format.With iOS 5, however, Apple has added Reader functionality to iOS devices. When you are on a page that is Reader-compatible, a small Reader icon will appear in the address bar. Simply tap on this button, and the content will pop up in a new view.In this view, you can increase or decrease the font as well as tap the action button to get access to more options. When you have finished and wish to return to the main Safari view, tap Done.3. Tabbed BrowsingWhen browsing in Safari on the iPad, a new tabbed browsing model is present to let you more easily load and manage multiple web pages.Tap on the plus button on the right-hand side of the title bar to create a new tab. When you want to close it, just tape on the big "x" at the left-hand side of the tab (Note that the close button only appears in actively selected tabs).4. Tweet from SafariYou can now tweet a link to the current web page in Safari. Simply tap on the action button in the toolbar, and select "Tweet".If you have configured the integrated Twitter functionality, then a Twitter dialog will automatically be displayed with the web page attached (meaning that the tweet will include a link to the web page you're currently on). Once you have typed in your message, press the Tweet button. Follow this article's author, Cory Bohon on Twitter.
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